Yesterday I started a discussion under the title 'A few things WE NEED to remember'.
The first line read something in the lines of: 'I am deeply saddened by what happened, and applaud WSO's decision to take down relevant posts at least over the weekend, as the family asked for it'. The sentences that followed laid out 1) that we should continue to remember this topic and bring this up, so there is more media coverage about working conditions in IB, 2) we should make sure that any asks/actions taken need to be focus so that the message is not lost and 3) people should stop bragging about their working hours to change the culture.
This post was taken down by admin, without any notice. All replies have been removed too.
Can WSO explain why? If you are looking to be a big brother, can you at least be a good one?
There is absolutely no reason why this post should be removed, and it's now quite silly that admin gets to decide who says what. Obviously defamatory comments towards the victims etc. should be dealt with, but why can't we sit down and have a conversation to make things better?
Or are you going to remove this post too?
Bump. The reaction of WSO mods is a disgrace.
It’s happening with all the threads. Super frustrating because there was a lot of meaningful discussion in them. Not a single mention of the associates name either.
Exactly. I think that any reasoning behind removing these other threads (although I can't think one that's logically sound) should also apply to the 2-3 megathreads that are currently on top. There is clearly much more discussion going on those threads and hence higher probability of 'issue'.
Not saying that those should also be taken down, rather that none should be taken down.
Agreed, point of WSO @patrick is to make a change. You’re not doing the family any favors by censoring everything. we will respect the familys privacy but wont tolerate this blatant obscene censorship of the criminals involved
Notice how every mention of Gary Howe has been removed from WSO.
We are familiar with WSO’s game, great platform but they have been censoring content for a while.
Platforms like X and rumble are the last true bastions of free speech.
To be fair, my post did have his name too. Simply in the context that he should be called out.
If the policy is that any person's name (not just the victim's) shouldn't be mentioned directly, I have two questions:
a) There have been numerous other cases where real names were mentioned (incl. in a critical context). Jefferies CEO is one example and Justine Tobine (who runs a boutique advisory firm which does not pay interns claiming that they are paid with 'experience') is another. No issue there but an exception for this BofA MD?
b) I don't get why a name couldn't be mentioned. If this results in a defamation lawsuit etc. it's the consequence that the poster has to face, not WSO. The whole point of a community is to allow interaction and exchange of ideas, and it seems to be overly restrictive to have a rule against mentioning 'any' names.
This is the cycle of online forums.
Bootstrapped starter website, grows in popularity because active user base grows, you can post freely and exchange interesting gossip. Becomes popular because you know you can get cool info and active replies.
With popularity comes ad money and the owner of the site starts seeing real cash. This is unexpected but awesome. But with ad cash comes concerns of inflammatory and controversial posts. Starts with a little nodding of only the most vile posts. As ad revenue grows and more ad companies start paying for ads, more worry about posts that could offend potential ad companies grows.
Now you can’t post anything interesting or sexy, but this has now become the main site. And this starts the slow decline of the site and eventually a new site will take over as the most popular forum, because only there can you post lay freely and without censorship.
But the owner of the old site already made his money and doesn’t care, and by the time everyone moves to the new site he’s retired. And eventually the new forum will grow in popularity and attract ad revenue and the cycle begins again.
Damn this is spot on.
So anyone interested in a new forum?
Can get started on the programming.
I miss the days when you could say whatever you wanted.
Careful, that was never the case. There's always been some element of weeding out the most abusive content.
That the filters have been tightened too far....no argument.
Until eventually someone who has so much money he can afford to act on principle alone (e.g. Elon Musk) comes in and sacrifices money for free speech.
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Tbh I don’t think the American people will have much sympathy for highly compensated bankers…
I don't have much sympathy for anyone who thinks making six figures justifies stress-induced death
Complete BS. Can’t even disagree with someone anymore or some weird ahhh moderator will block you from the conversation. This site is done.
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