[smcn]

It definitely is. A pump and dump is a coordinated effort to artificially raise the price of a stock.

Posting technical analysis and/or positive news that encourages people to take a position is not a pump and dump. No more than any financial article that has ever been written.

[dragonwriter]

> A pump and dump is a coordinated effort to artificially raise the price of a stock.

And with what methods are such coordinated efforts carried out? By communicating a narrative intended to convince people that the stock will go up, so that the audience buys it and it does go up.

The narrative is the central element of the pump of a pump and dump.

[smcn]

There is a big difference between a coordinated effort and open source intelligence which is what most people are performing on WSB.

[dragonwriter]

Most pump and dump schemes present themselves as intelligence/analysis; there is no content-based objective differentiation, just intent and good-faith.

But, actually, some of the WSB stuff is openly coordinated strategy, not intelligence, overtly seeking to manipulate enough action to cause an outcome, not providing intelligence/analysis on what os likely to occur without active intervention

[smcn]

None of the successful stuff is coordinating a pump and dump. You may get the odd post where someone does try but it doesn't go anywhere.

> But, actually, some of the WSB stuff is openly coordinated strategy, not intelligence, overtly seeking to manipulate enough action to cause an outcome, not providing intelligence/analysis on what os likely to occur without active intervention

That would not be correct, no. If you're talking about trying to trigger a short squeeze then that is mechanically different from a pump and dump.

A short squeeze does not require the participants to raise the price, it requires a restriction of the publicly available float in order to trap "shorts" and then, when their options expire and they must purchase the shares to satisfy the contract, it creates a massive demand for shares on what is now an illiquid stock and this results in the price rising.

There have been many occasions when they have tried to squeeze a stock but I have not seen one where they have tried to attempt a pump and dump.

[dragontamer]

> None of the successful stuff is coordinating a pump and dump.

Memes are the mechanism to pump.

Selling when everyone else is still meming is the dump. The masses support the prices while you leave and take profits. Its basically a transfer of wealth from apes to the meme-leader (ie: the one who made the meme and pushed it to be popular)

And its 100% blatant. Thats what this whole topic is about: WSB doing a rug-pull on his own community through a cryptocoin.

[smcn]

Memes are information, that's all. Just a way of imparting information in an easily digestible manner. You are really deep into this belief and it's pretty surreal.

It's easy to rug pull a cryptocoin that you created. It is not easy to pump and dump stocks with over 500m market cap. WSB is open, I wish you'd just take the time to debunk your own beliefs.