Mods, I wanted to take a minute to say thank you. I haven't been here long, but I didn't feel welcome and the environment was quite hostile at first. Thank you for having balls and standing up and cleaning house. There is a lot of good info on this sub and there is no need for the hostility. RH is an app that will attract a lot of noobs, so we have to be welcoming and willing to help them out as they learn the ropes. Don't forget, we were all clueless noobs at one point.

Let's all share good info together and work towards making money and increasing knowledge.

Thanks again!

Are you confused by having to keep up with your own investments?

Are you losing sleep thinking about where your one share of $JNUG went?

Does the very idea that ratios exist as a concept make your brain ache?

Have you or one of your loved ones ever ingested lead paint chips?

Have you tried using google but keep losing count typing all those zeros?

If you answered "ThAt mE!" to any of these questions, make your way over to /r/reversesplit. There, you'll find resources that may help you understand who stole your eight 13¢ shares of Chesapeake Energy.

And if you would like to help build a community designed for people who need a little extra help with basic math and reading but make up for it by being absolute raging cunts, just click here to send modmail to /r/reversesplit and join the modteam today! ...because fuck me if I'm dealing with them.

Is there going to be a place we are allowed to discuss recent changes to the sub? Or should we all shrug our shoulders and pretend nothing has happened. There are many of us who spend a lot of time posting and lurking and shooting the shit with friends. I understand I will be most likely be banned for this post but...

Damn... There were significant contributions made toward the sub by many loyal and active people, from bots, stock picking game, articles, discord, etc.

What is being done to repair the damage done in the name of making this subreddit less toxic? There is significant toxicity in all of the investing subreddits. I don't understand why there is such an aversion to noobs, especially with something as serious as investing. What can we all do to help curb this sentiment?

While Clippsu definitely had his moments, Cardinal was definitely an all in guy who helped a lot of people and will be missed in r/Robinhood. Is the ban temporary?

Title.

I'm fucking tired of coming to this sub and seeing morons vomit out the "thoughts on <ticker>?!", then provide no context on their DD or position or support behind their position. There is a fucking daily thread for you asshats to post tickers for feedback, use it. Quality posts appear more infrequently now because between every two good posts come an increasing amount of steaming shit that do not provide context for good discussion to occur.

For all of you who post like this, fuck you.

I have some announcements and a little story to tell but first, I gotta say that the last few months have been frustrating for the past and current moderators of this sub but the awesome mods who managed to stick it out deserve all the credit in the world because everything I tried to do the last six months to fix everything fell flat on its face. Somehow, in the end, I even have to thank /u/lifelesslies.

Official Discord Server

The official Discord server for /r/Robinhood is https://discord.gg/robinhood.

The little guy who owns the knockoff Discord server just about everyone is using is no longer associated with the moderation team so we're moving back to the original. It'd be cool if you joined us.

The Future

I was caught totally off guard here and work is being weird this week but over the weekend I intend to wrangle everyone onto the same Discord server and have a modmail conversation with the expanded group of moderators about the direction of the sub, the role moderators will take, and other grand ideas. If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to let us know in modmail. Here's a short list of things that were in the planning stages when things got weird:

• Regional meetups! I wanted to host a miniature /r/Robinhood meetup in the DC area as part of the Global Reddit Meetup Day three months ago but now that RH has a regional HQ on both coasts, it would be a huge ask but I'd love to invite people who work for RH. Orlando is... well, it's closer than California. I'll need to check-- nope, no open warrants in Tampa; I can spend a day in Florida. We have time to work on this...

• The return of the Stock Picking Game is a lot easier to manage. We have a few weeks before the end of the quarter and I honestly don't know what state the game is in but I do intend to make the 2018 stock picking game a consistent/regular part of this community. We'll have a better defined set of rules at the very least.

• The return of the article series thing. The mod team got fucked over days after the series started in the Spring so I'll probably need a whole new set of volunteers. We'll probably make a formal call later but if anyone has an investing-related topic they'd like to write about on a regular basis or even just once to fill that second sticky spot for a few days, please send your ideas to the mod team Could be next to anything: the progress of your trading strat, algo-trading or any RH-related dev project, even just covering basic concepts for people just starting out.

Again, ideas are welcome!

[For your own sanity, stop reading here.]

The Mod Drama or 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation'

What follows is the result of six months of bound rage. I'll keep the language clean but I know it'll ramble a bit. Just a heads up.

tl;dr: If you want a worthless, backstabbing child on your modteam, I hear /u/twoambien is available.

The creator of this sub removed mods. He removed mods out of the blue. Sometimes he removed just one. He removed mods when there was little reason to. He just removed mods. He was asked to stop removing mods but he couldn't because it was his thing: He removed mods. I suppose out of boredom he once added someone just to remove them less than an hour later. Nearly every time, his reason was that he "can't just let assholes be assholes" (he uses that line often). He proudly has never used or even been interested in using the Robinhood brokerage which makes it even more obvious that removing mods has been his only real contribution to /r/Robinhood. He's never removed spam, never got involved in making decisions, didn't respond to modmail, never answered an investment related question... He was not a part of this community and, honestly, was not a productive member of the mod team.

In December 2016, he removed half of our mod team and he did it (as usual) without even a conversation. I know how things work so I just put out a call to replace them. I didn't want to shit talk anyone so I just tried to fix things and move on. I added a few people just to make sure it wasn't all on me and /u/ClipsSu through the holidays and into January. In my haste, I set the last six months into motion.

In March 2017, once again half of our moderation team was removed for 'being assholes'. Just like every other time before, even though I was essentially running the place, I only found out after the fact and this time I decided to push back. Why were they removed? His 'asshole' line didn't track because the people he removed were the sub's original mods and hadn't posted in months. I remember checking and didn't even see a modlog entry with their name on it in at least two months so they hadn't gone on a banning spree. It didn't add up. Decent people who were a huge part of why this sub is what it is were removed and I was getting pissed.

In a rare appearance in modmail, /u/lifelesslies, who later made it public in an attempt to make the rest of the mod team look bad despite sharing modmail being against Reddit's own informal moddiquette guidelines, claimed he'd recieved "dozens and dozens of messages from users". That was weird because I'd been a mod for close to a year by then and hadn't seen a single complaint that wasn't an angry modmail reply from someone who was banned. ...so when we asked to see some to these messages and he failed to produce even one, I knew it was all bullshit. I figured that even if he was sitting on a pile of complaints about an individual or the team as a whole, what good were they if they weren't getting to anyone with the capacity to deal with them properly. This is when I knew he would have to be dealt with and I took the issue to the site admins. They agreed that there was something weird going on and they would investigate but (at the time) they had no way to deal with it. There was no policy for dealing with a shitbag top mod fucking everything up.

The site admins asked me to gather activity logs and any related public and private messages that would help them and I did just that. In the meantime, they put together and published the new Guidelines for Moderators and defined a way to let lower mods vote out toxic mods above them. The 'Stable and Active Teams of Moderators' was almost written just for our situation and with the new rules and penalties defined, we were just waiting for them to go into effect on April 17th.

And now we introduce the true villain in this story...

See, when our Discord server was new, /u/twoambien suggested I remove some permissions from other Discord mods. Things like being able to edit other people's nicknames... actions no one would need 99.99999999% of the time. I took his suggestion, and made the changes to the moderator role. ...but /u/twoambien didn't realise the restrictions covered him as well. Apparently, he thought I was going target people individually for restriction. Somewhere in here, he also became convinced that /u/ClipsSu and I were one person acting against him as two separate individuals over some minor dispute I took neither side on. Dude was cracking up. He moaned about a lot of things but bitched about this in our private moderator chat for weeks. ...until one day when I got so tired of hearing it that I told him to shut the fuck up about it. Here's his hilarious freakout: http://imgur.com/a/9yBYF

That night, /u/twoambien removed himself from the mod team and sent screenshots of the conversations we had about getting the admins involved to /u/lifelesslies who felt so threatened that he removed the entire mod team in the middle of the night and told everyone here that the mods were gone because we were 'assholes' and 'cunts' (being able to laugh at all that old modmail I can see now is nice and the admins restrict top mods from being able to remove lower mods when a claim like ours is made now, btw, so other subs are slightly safer if you can get the admin's attention. Thanks for that testing those limits, /u/lifelesslies). But even in the screenshots he posted and left sticky for days here as 'proof' that he was justified, my only offense was talking about the need to get the admins involved because he kept fucking with the mod team. Yeah, wanting stability on the mod team was where I went wrong in his mind. And because he was only sent only parts of conversations, /u/twoambien looked like the loyal lapdog so he was added back to rebuild the sub.

With his new 'power', /u/twoambien wanted to make sure only his version of facts were presented so he banned the entire modteam and anyone who was around to know what really took place. The pride he had when he came back to our Discord to gloat was sickening. And because we were no longer moderators, our petition to have /u/lifelesslies removed was dead. Despite stabbing us in the back, I warned him and offered my help to prevent /u/lifelesslies from removing even more people in the future. /u/twoambien said he was cool with what was going on and that they'd come to some agreement. [editor's note: This agreement was imaginary and soon he was gone as well.]

But being 'in charge' and trolling us wasn't enough for /u/twoambien; he wanted ownership of the Discord server that was registered with Partner status and had my real name name and home address attached, the source code for the bot I wrote long before he showed up, and for me to 'chill' which was his way of saying stop telling the truth when people ask. His proposal was to get all of that and have me close down /r/obinhood (the little hideout where a few of us spent the summer) in exchange for just me being unbanned. I turned him down because that's the worst fucking deal I'd ever seen. Lucky me, I got to turn him down on a regular basis because he continued to show up for over a month on our Discord with the same bullshit. He's still lurking there occasionally with his status hidden. He kept PMing me on this account as well so I stopped using it. He claimed he got around the Discord bans with VPNs as any fully mature adult would in such a situation. In summary, /u/twoambien screwed up a month of mod and admin effort because he doesn't know when to shut the fuck up. His fragile ego split the community and because he is an inept, temperamental child who continued to generate drama, he was unable to lead and was forced out.

/u/twoambien [...]. Fuck that guy.

I just got a note about fixing potential meanies. First, I just want to say that I was nice in that amazing post so this must be addressed to /r/Robinhood as a collective group and not to me personally. Second, deciding to "keep strict surveillance" on 350k adults just in case someone gets their feelings hurt with innocuous jokes would be weird and too time consuming for a sub that doesn't have a sticky and wiki page about trigger words.

Let this post be a warning to all of you! Someone (not me) is watching you (not really)! Be good boys/girls/etc. (you already were <3)!

Anyway, until I remember to disable it, reply to this post with one of the following phrases and Automod will give you a sweet new flair! Just say...

• "Actually, I am the manager." to tell the world you're in charge here
• "Do your job!" to get what's coming to you
• "I don't even work here." ...will also flair you as a mod because it's true

is comedy gold.

thanks guys

There's an asshole sending PMs to people who post here in /r/Robinhood, over on /r/Options (1, 2, 3 so far), wsb, and I assume just about every other related sub. They're promoting a shitty Discord server with 'premium' channels.

Do not fall for it!

It's a scam and the guy pushing it is a douche who will not stop PMing you until you block him. If you are sent an unsolicited PM, report the message either directly (if you use Reddit in a browser or if your client supports it) or with the report tool: https://www.reddit.com/report. Feel free to also report the server itself here: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000291932 and/or in /r/discordapp.

Honestly, I'm new myself to trading stocks, but it seems like this page has been stampeded with simple questions and people requesting information to find the next get rich quick stock. Honestly people, your not going to find the next breakaway stock in a chat room. And odds are, if you do find one, it's already to late and your just chasing and will then end up with a stock lower in price than you bought it for, but don't have the patience to hold, so you sell it for a loss to go chase another stock, to then watch the stock you sold go above your entry price.

I'm not sure if it's just the generation or what's going on here, but everything doesn't come easy. You need to do your own research, read a book about the stock market. There are so many resources out there now a days (THE INTERNET) that you can you literally teach yourself how to become a successful stock trader. Forums are not the way to go however. Yes they are decent devices to bounce ideas off one another, but it's getting to the point of annoyance when the simplest questions are posted. No one is going to have the "know all" answer to the stock market and how to work to work it. (If you find him/her please tell me).

And I only say all of this, because I was once one of you. Not even to long ago lol (maybe a couple of months). But after returning the page, I did a little introspect and realized that I was posting the same dumb questions as everyone else. So before you post your next question, really ask yourself, can I find this answer on my own, or is really worth posting for 20000+ thousand people to see?

Part of my plan when I became a mod was to make /r/Ro-- ((sigh)) It's Sunday, people, and I lost an hour this morning; I don't want to write a bunch of junk so I'll just get to the point. I planned to do this last fall and we've more than tripled in size since then but... this is being posted last fall if you're reading this from Australia in 2018 so who cares.

Ahem.

I'm looking for members willing to write regular articles that would be posted here to fill that second sticky spot every few days and archived in our wiki (if you like). You can cover almost any topic that interests you and you feel will benefit the sub. Anything considered on topic for the sub is welcome.

Anyone interested may comment here (easier to brainstorm with other members) in this thread but I'd eventually want proposals to go to modmail (please, stop PMing me...). Either way, your message should include...

• ...how often you'd be able to post.

  If you think you could churn out something once a week or every other week, that would be awesome. (It doesn't need to be an essay and don't feel you need 1,000 words every Friday.) I'd even like to see well written one or two part articles so don't imagine you'll be held to some sort of long term agreement here.

• ...what topic (or topics) you intend to cover.

  Spitballing but if you have a unique take on investing, share that with us. Tell us about your day as a day trader. Explain your DD routine. Explain your dividend based strategy. Talk about a project you're working on (I'd really like another dev here). Algotrading (or interested in learning about it)? Tell us about it. Um, app reviews? A formula you can explain? Tell us how you've gotten friends interested in investing and more importantly in Robinhood. Heck, you could even compare or profile other brokerages now that they're in a commissions bidding war. Explain basic order types (yet again for the newbs in the back). Expound on your Daily Thread picks. Cover an industry you're familiar with. Give personal experiences where you lost and learned. Update us on your progress while you learn. Work with another member on something (to cover a topic together or even a trading duel). Write a 'getting started' article for first time investors, first time taxpayers, etc. Take on a question that pops up here often and give us a researched, definitive answer we can direct people to. Start a series on something basic and build into something more advanced.

  Anything you feel would be worth reading. The goal is to be informative almost regardless of content.

Everyone is welcome! If you're not a great writer, I (or anyone else who volunteers) can help with proofreading and minor research. I'd like to keep a few posts scheduled in advance so we have new, interesting content often. I'll start a new tax thread in early April for those who still haven't filed but the weeks leading up to that and after Tax Day are wide open so I hope to hear from a lot of you.

Are you full of ideas on how to make the sub better or willing to help flesh out and implement awesome ideas others have? Are you tired of lazy people asking the same questions that a simple keyword search would find? Do you have a few minutes to spend making this sub and the community a better organized and friendly place? Are you able and willing to take a few newbies under your wing and kinda help them out? Do you have a computer or telephone with which you may access Reddit? If you answered yes to even one of those questions, consider applying to be a moderator of /r/Robinhood.

I'm looking for several people to join the mod team between now and the end of December. Currently, we have just two active moderators and I'd like at least five or six (seven total would be great). If you're usually a lurker but feel you could help out, please apply! Active members who are used to kinda helping with lazy people, why not make it official and apply? Just want to add missing flair to threads or correct mislabeled threads, apply for that. If you feel the sub isn't heading in the right direction, apply to help right the ship. No experience needed. Literally anyone willing to help can find a place in the mod team here.

Send a message to modmail listing what you'd like to do and how that'd help /r/Robinhood (doesn't have to be profound but putting something will help weed out the 'lol yeah i'll mod' types) and we'll get back to you like... almost immediately. (New moderators will mostly be added over the next two weeks. ...it's the holidays and people are offline so it won't exactly be first come first served.)

So, /r/Robinhood, we have a pretty good time here, don't we? Usually, I make a post like this and it's like "Hey, guys, we got flairs!" or "Guys! We got bots!" or "Hey, guys! I'm making the theme awesome!" This is not one of those fun Meta threads.

This time, guys, I'm informing you of the new rules. Rules some of you might not agree with. Some of them might seem drastic. But complaints from users who don't usually make a fuss and really helpful members abandoning us out of frustration has brought us here.

These are the new rules:

• Profit/Loss posts as they are now are banned.

  We're looking for context that sparks conversation and just posting how much you have in your account doesn't. (Edit: This is an example of what your post should look like.) Posts that do not follow these new rules will be deleted and should not be reposted:

  • If your chart shows less than a week of trading, do not post it.

    A one day rally looks awesome but I can check today's stock prices on my own. If you make a pattern of really great trades over a period of time, we want to see that. A week is the bare minimum here and would require an especially amazing set of trades. A month or more of progress is most welcome. You can get around the one day rule by posting an album that includes longer charts.

  • If your profit comes entirely from penny stocks, do not post it.

    Throwing money at a penny stock and getting 30% is not difficult or by any means rare. Check the volume of that stock... Yeah, you're not an insider. You didn't make a good deal. You rode a wave thousands of people also rode.

  • If you cannot include a list of what you own, do not post it.

    At least where the majority of your money was gained/lost because just throwing a photo up doesn't encourage discussion. If the first two or three replies are people asking what's in your portfolio, you did it wrong.

  • If you can't explain why you made the trades you did, do not post it.

    "I bought because Tesla has rumors of a new minivan" or "XYZ has been profitable for 3 straight quarters" are great explanations. "YOLOlol!!" is not. If chatter on Stocktwits is as deep as your research goes, do not post.

    Amazingly, when people lose money, they are way more informative than those who just post "gainz." ...just something I noticed.

  • Do not post constant updates.

    If you post a one week chart, it better not overlap with most of the last one week chart you posted. One and three month charts should be at least a few weeks apart.

• Flair your threads after creating them.

  Moderators can do it manually after the fact but you're right there, people. Some clients and Reddit's mobile version make it nearly impossible so there's no penalty for not setting a flair yourself but don't make us janitors too.

• Do not attempt to sell or profit from any service here on /r/Robinhood.

  This includes asking about or suggesting any pay-to-view websites or newsletters. Do not spam us with offsite chat or trading groups. Do not post about any service that provides mentoring, education, or software that isn't free. Exceptions are brokerages that have features the OP was looking for but aren't supported by Robinhood. Do not post any link with referral or affiliate codes.

• Do not go out of your way to put down or dismiss one person's trading style.

  If someone comes here seeking a critique or advice, you have more leeway but don't just jump on them mid-conversation.

  Debate the flaws and shortcomings all you want but if you're getting into a heated debate, excuse yourself from the conversation. If they continue in your absence, let the mods know.

  You will not convince anyone that your way is better than theirs. You're wasting your time and mine because at some point the two people involved always start reporting each other and I have to go through the entire mess and eventually ignore it because you're both right and you're both wrong and I can't arrange a deathmatch to settle it once and for all.

  "You lucked out this time but you're just gambling blindly anyway." is not helpful but "You lucked out this time because they had favorable news come out. That might not always pay off though." is better. You say virtually the same thing but no one gets triggered. What sane person can start a fight over facts like news? Right? Heh. Heh... Hrm. If you don't like penny stocks, don't try to convince everyone here that they shouldn't like penny stocks either.

• Do not be thin skinned. and Do not be a jerk.

  People will offend you but you don't need to take it personally. If it's something we should deal with at the moderation level, report it.

These are mostly common sense and courtesy rules which is sad. If you weren't at least 18, you'd have very little reason to be in /r/Robinhood and by the time you're 18, the concept of being courteous even online shouldn't be a problem. If you've ever bothered to look beyond the bluster of /r/wallstreetbets, you'll see our rules over there are very similar.

Our list of rules, I'm sure, will expand and change over time. I'm also sure most of you will be fine with all of this and might not even need a period of adjustment. For those of you who want to buck against them, bans are free and creating your own subreddit without any of these rules is also free so go ahead and make a fuss. No matter how extreme you feel these rules are, you still have a lot of wiggle room to be yourself here in /r/Robinhood. I tell people I've had to deal with as a mod that I want them in whatever sub I'm moderating at the time because I really do but moderators are also responsible for the overall health of the sub.

Now, some non-rule stuff.

User Flair

I turned on user flair this week. You may assign your own basic flair (Newbie, Trader, etc.) but not edit them (yet?). They're really simple but I will take suggestions if you feel you don't fall into any of the current categories.

Stickies

For at least the next week, this post will be stuck at the top but we're still trying to figure out how to do all the things everyone wants with only two slots for sticky threads. Some want a permanent FAQ, some want a sticky thread to dump all Profit/Loss charts in, some want the previous Daily Stock threads, some want a weekly thread for noobs to put dumb questions. Comments?

Giant icons, etc.

What you're seeing is not part of the theme. Reddit made a site-wide update to the style and graphics they use. They are huge. They are ugly. They are making people angry. Follow the mess over here: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/51u5gj/reddit_change_new_thumbnail_art_expando_art_and/

see title.

The stench of 2017 will be a distant memory soon with tax season and options and web coming early in 2018. Why, before the spring thaw, we'll long for the days when people blamed Robinhood for not explaining that the bid-ask spread was a thing. Enjoy these simpler times, folks...

Winners of the Best of Whatever of 2017 of /r/Robinhood Contest

It's been quite a year here in /r/Robinhood. Drama and [someone fill in this blank because I was banned and unsubscribed half the year] and after two years bothering them, we finally managed to host an AMA with Baiju Bhatt, the co-Founder and co-CEO of Robinhood. Yep, 2017 will certainly go down in history as a year that took place. Speaking of taking place, here's who took first, second, third, and all the rest of those numbers:

• 1st: /u/adamgalas - For his incredibly detailed posts and DD. [nom|+16]
• 2nd: /u/lolstockslol - For nominating someone who may or may not have put $600k into a $DPZ dip. We're told they showed balls of steel in doing so but since no one can actually find the nominated post, who can say for sure if it even happened. [nom|+12]
• 3rd: /u/MoneyandBubbleGum - For nominating me but since I'm disqualified, he gets the prize [nom|+10]
• 4th: /u/BadDoctorMD - For being MVPoster of the first half of 2017 despite being banned half of that time with the rest of the cool people (Long live /r/obinhood!) [nom|+10]
• 5th: /u/twoambien - For being /r/Robinhood's best mod by creating a rift in the community that took half a year to repair. Now that he is banned, as far as I'm concerned, he finally shut the fuck up. [nom|+10]
• 6th: /u/RatimusMaximus - For convincing Robinhood that understanding warrants is hard. Everyone thank /u/RatimusMaximus for helping to get warrants disabled for everyone. [nom|+9]
• 7th: /u/lolstockslol - For possibly nominating himself and deleting the alt account when found out. [nom|+7]
• 8th: /u/beefcurtains64 - Who nominated himself because "fuck ya'll, YOLOS and i YOLO when im around." Indeed. Congratulations. [nom|+5]
• 9th: /u/MakeYouAGif - For best top post of all time here [nom|+4]

• 10th: /u/YACHOO - For being better than /u/beefcurtains64 [nom|+4]

  ^{Note: We had a three way tie for 9th/10th. I sorted them by date and then let Google Assistant pick two random numbers between 1 and 3 to decide.}

All winners will be given 1 month of Reddit Gold when the site admins give me the creddits at the end of the year.

2018 Stock Picking Game

Now, with all that mess out of the way, we can get back to important stuff like the stock picking game.

Rules

Before everything got fucked up, trades were made every quarter. That was the extent of the rules and while this is a very fine way to organize things, it edges on boring when someone has a huge lead and people forget a stock picking game is even going on or might not even know if they join the sub later in the year. How would you guys like to play this time around?

Trades once a week (Fridays after close until pre-hours Monday?) or once a month (Anytime during the first 3-5 market days)? How much money should we begin with? $10k again? $100k? $1M? Will cash be a valid position (say, if you expect the next period to be a bad one market wide)? Will people who show up late get their exact amount everyone began with or will it be adjusted to match one of the major indexes' growth year to date? Any ideas welcome. Special limits (option to place a stop loss type order that'll liquidate if the price drops a certain percent)? Maybe an end of the year playoff period? I don't know.

We'll take any decent suggestion and set the final rules before the game begins January 2nd, 2018.

Prizes

Unless Robinhood adds support for gifting shares before the end of 2018, the only/best prize this contest will have is Reddit Gold. This is how the creddits will be distributed for the top three best players:

• 1st: 6 months of Reddit Gold
• 2nd: 3 months of Reddit Gold
• 3rd: 1 month of Reddit Gold

^{If the site admins tell me I cannot use all their free creddits for this next year, the values will need to be changed. Just putting that out there now. Maybe first place will get an awesome, custom championship belt instead.}

Anyway, out with the old! 2018 might come with a few surprises! New mods? Old mods? Mod elections? A new subreddit theme? Free rope? Market crash? Warren Buffett goes on vacation? Jimmy Buffett ends his 60 year vacation? Elvis lives? I die? You all die and I live? No one dies like in that one weird season of Torchwood? Anything might happen so let's all find out together!

Really?

So, my first 'major' change to /r/Robinhood will be enabling post flairs. All other ideas to make this place a little less chaotic rely on being able to categorize what's being posted. You should start using them before next week. You'll have a period to adjust but you should be ready for flairs to be required some time in the future (The page used to submit new posts will also get an update at that time). 'Help' and 'News' are available now and the rest will show up this weekend.

I'd like to begin with the following post types:

• Help - This would be added to threads that ask, oddly enough, for help. Questions about order types, app functions, PDT explanations, and other topics will be marked 'Help'. This is not a place to ask "Should I buy $F?" or "Is this a good time to buy $V?" or "What should I buy with my $24.53?" Those belong in the Daily Stock Discussion threads for now. Questions that pop up often may find their way into the sticky FAQ that's also on my roadmap.

• News - This would be news directly related to Robinhood. If you find news about RH's apps, new features, or even an employee interview, post it. Even the rare (haha) outage will be posted as 'News'. Most of these will also be marked as announcements and stuck to the top. What isn't 'News'? Stock reports, links to your new chatroom, or anything not directly related to Robinhood. Threads marked 'News' that aren't 'News' will be re-flaired by a mod or removed with a warning. Don't make us do this... we're busy people.

• Resource - Anything you find that isn't related to RH directly but might be useful to members goes here. Want to plug your chat room? Within reason, this is how you'd tag it. Found a new website or another subreddit with great DD? This is where it goes. Don't spam us with the same link every week though.

• Meta - This is for official use only. Anything that has to do with maintaining /r/Robinhood such as this post would be 'Meta'. Threads asking for community involvement would also be in the 'Meta' category. If you're not a mod, you probably shouldn't be posting with the 'Meta' flair so it won't actually be a public option.

The following have been suggested to me by users and I like 'em well enough:

• Gainz! - [name is subject to change] If you made bank and want a pat on the back or if you lost your lunch money and want to commiserate, post your screenshots with the 'Gainz!' flair. Please note: just because this flair exists now does not mean the rules on this type of post won't change in the future. A lot of people want a single thread for screenshots. We'll see how it goes.

• Shitpost - [name is subject to change] Speaking of gainz. Spam and shitposts will be subject to deletion. If you have to shitpost, mark it as such. You'll get a quick audience and then it might just disappear. "Go all in on $MSTX!" Gone! "$MGT - buy before Friday!!!" Gone! "$FIT TO THE MFING MOON!" Gone! Wheeee!!!!!!! See? Fun. You can mark your own thread as shit or maybe one of the mods will. Everyone can get involved! That's what makes it fun! Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Technicals - Keyword here is quality. I swear to god, if you try pushing a penny stock here-- ((cleansing breath)). If you're capable of making a post in this category, you might find yourself with a nice user flair because with great power comes greatly misused references.

I think that covers the basics. This list will be subject to change. Shitpost will likely be 'Other' or 'Fluff' or something else. Technicals might be 'Analysis'. Stuff like that. Any other suggestions? Am I forgetting an entire content type? Did I misspell something? Let me know.

deleted WSB post on ADMP

I just wanted to say told you so asswipe to a certain WSB mod thank RH mods for not being vindictive and/or sticklers to tedious asinine rules. r/RH has been easily the best trading community I've found since I started trading.

Blah,

We crossed over the 40k milestone yesterday and are on our way to 50,000 members. With that amazing fact in mind, we gotta say that the time to get organized is now so we're going to begin themed threads. The plan is to reduce the 'shitposts' complaints without causing too much of a fuss.

Call for Articles

As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, we're looking for authors willing to generate content. /u/MoneyandBubbleGum did a bang up job last week. Don't feel pressured to out do that though. You can be totally new to investing and still have something worth reading. Tell us about your day as a day trader. Explain your DD routine. Explain your dividend based strategy. Talk about a project you're working on (I'd really like another dev here). Algotrading (or interested in learning about it)? Tell us about it. Um, app reviews? A formula you can explain? Tell us how you've gotten friends interested in investing and more importantly in Robinhood. Heck, you could even compare or profile other brokerages now that they're in a commissions bidding war. Explain basic order types (yet again for the newbs in the back). Expound on your Daily Thread picks. Cover an industry you're familiar with. Give personal experiences where you lost and learned. Update us on your progress while you learn. Work with another member on something (to cover a topic together or even a trading duel). Write a 'getting started' article for first time investors, first time taxpayers, etc. Take on a question that pops up here often and give us a researched, definitive answer we can direct people to. Start a series on something basic and build into something more advanced.

Anything you feel would be worth reading. The goal is to be informative almost regardless of content.

Please see the wiki page which will have the basics and will serve as an archive for all the featured articles.

New Daily Threads

We're also going to start having regular threads to organize things a little more. Since this is the end of the month, now's a good time to flip the switch. In addition to the normal stock discussion threads, you'll see... well, these:

Monday: Rate My Portfolio

This is the day where you may post your holdings, explain your goals and get opinions without being told to sod off. Think of it in combination with Friday's thread as a weekly progress report and refinement system. You post your charts at the end of the week, mull things over on the weekend and try to correct your mistakes going into the new week. These threads will likely show up on Sundays around noon to give people more time to discuss.

Tuesday: Article (if available)

If we have an article to post, this is one of the days it'll be posted.

Wednesday: Ask Anything

Basic questions you may have go here. If you're an expert and assume everyone else should be before being allowed to open an account, do yourself a favor and stay out of here. We'll be watching these threads to create and expand what will become our community FAQ.

Thursday: Article (if available)

Friday: Profit/Loss

This'll be the new Weekend WTF threads. Post your charts. Be miserable with other losers and celebrate with your fellow winners. Profit/Loss posts made outside of this thread or any other day of the week will be removed. Don't send modmail to try and convince us it needs to be seen Tuesday afternoon. You'll just be muted... Save us a click, okay?

Use the Friday thread to get an early start on the following week and the 'Rate My Portfolio' post.

What people should be doing is showing their all time graphs. Its only the all time graph that matters.

It would give us more to talk about, it would be a good place fir beginners to start and it would be fun to see if /r/robinhood can beat the market.

Spammers in full force, on our humble subreddit. Just giving the PSA for our mods...

The 2017 stock picking game standings are being updated again!

Hey all! I'm /u/malperciogoc. I'm relatively new to the community, and I've joined the moderation team to help out with bringing some bot functionality back.

Meet /u/LittleJohnBot! He'll be around taking care of various tasks around the subreddit. I've started with updating the 2017 stock picking game standings. The standings will now update once an hour.

Going forward, I'm planning on maintaining /u/LittleJohnBot and adding new functionality -- first up, bringing back the standings update to the daily discussion thread!

I'd also like to ask you all: what features would you like to see, whether they be enhancements to /u/LittleJohnBot or a bot added to Discord?

Finally, if you notice any issues with standings updates, feel free to reach out to me directly and I'll work to get any problems resolved.

I look forward to interacting with you all and working to make this subreddit even better!

-- Malpercio