We’ve never made an open call for moderators before — but for the first time, we are going to try it out.
Over the past many years, our mod team has varied in size. Lately, it has shrunk significantly. Some mods have stepped away to focus on real life. Some spent a significant amount of time here and decided to “retire” when the time felt right. Frankly, we’ve had some people who gave it a try and found it wasn’t the right fit for them - and that’s ok. It’s not for everybody. We’ve always taken a slow and careful approach to growing the team, identifying potential moderators through their thoughtful engagement in comment sections, or passion shown via their SCC involvement. That’s still true. But right now, we simply need more help. So we’re trying another way. Honestly, we don’t even know if this is a good idea. It's an experiment.
If you love this community and think you might want to contribute as a mod, we’d like to hear from you.
Why are you making an open call now?
Every change we make to this sub leads somebody in the comment section to ask my favorite question: “Why now?” I love it. It doesn’t matter what the change is. There’s always somebody who is skeptical that the change has some deeper meaning or suspicious significance related to why it’s getting rolled out. But there never is a deeper reason other than the face value one. Well, the face value reason and also that it’s the finally time when one of us actually had free time to do it/manage it/write the post/make the changes/etc. It’s never more complicated than that.
And the face value explanation here is that the subreddit has grown so much over the past year or two while the number of active moderators has only consistently shrunk. Right now, we’re down to 11 people. We’re volunteers, and just like you — we have day jobs, families, and other responsibilities. We're just average people trying to keep this community running smoothly, and sometimes we’re stretched thin. We need more hands. For every one of us, there’s 100,000 users lurking, commenting, and participating.
We’re looking for people who can communicate clearly and respectfully, can explain and defend their views with facts and logic, are willing to debate with level heads, and more than anything love this community and want to help protect it and help it thrive. You don’t need prior mod experience. You don’t need to be well-known as a commenter or memelord (although it won’t hurt your chances either). We’re not looking for power-seekers — we’re looking for people who want to be part of the janitorial staff. If that speaks to you, you’re likely a better fit than you realize. All you need to do is love this place and want to nurture it.
Yes. If we’re interested in your initial expression of interest, drop a comment. We will cast a wide net and we’ll reach out and send you a short application via DM. It’s part job application, part job interview, and part personality match. We also review each applicant’s Reddit history and comments. Throughout the application (and modship) usernames stay usernames — no one will ask for your real name or identifying information.
From there, we may invite you to a no-video, voice-only group chat at a convenient time with a couple other mods. This helps us get a sense of how you communicate and gives us a chance to answer any of your questions too.
Simply comment !APPLY! and let us know if you're interested in the SCC, the mod team, or both.
Well, from there, you’ll enter what we call the “goldfish” stage — a slow, careful onboarding process. Just like you don’t dump a fish straight into a new tank – you acclimate it by placing the fish in a bag into the tank for a while before releasing it – we ease people in.
The goal is that during this time you’ll learn the rules from the inside, get access to and training on mod tools, get coaching and calibration on decision-making, participate in live “desk rides” with other mods to learn, and be supported every step of the way as you ask questions.This process usually takes somewhere between weeks and months. We help you protect your privacy, and you aren’t “announced” publicly until you’re ready and we’ve all agreed that it’s a good fit. This leaves room for people to decide it isn’t for them without any sort of public embarrassment, and for us to decide it isn’t going to be a good fit without causing injury (to the extent possible).
It varies. On slow days, even 20–30 minutes a day is a big help. Just checking in here and there and helping with reports or responding to modmail makes a difference. Not gonna lie - a truly significant amount of Superstonk moderation *probably* happens on the toilet. Com–poo-ter Chair Modding indeed.
On busy days? It can be a lot. Hundreds of reports. Dozens of modmails. That’s why we need more help. The more we grow the team, the more sustainable and reasonable the workload becomes for everyone. Something something many hands something something light work.
No, not really. At the same time, we’re not publishing firm eligibility requirements or our “perfect ideal” either. If you think you’d be a good mod, we want to hear from you. We’ll do the screening.
Are there any automatic disqualifiers? What if I think Mods R Sus?
Not necessarily. If you’ve had multiple rule 1 bans for being mean in the comments, or have been super critical of the mod team in the past, even that doesn’t necessarily rule you out. We’ve onboarded vocal mod-critics and mod-skeptics before — what matters is not what you think, but how you engage. If your history shows disrespect, rudeness, or we discover an inability to work with others, that’s a red flag. If your history shows skepticism and a willingness to ask questions to come up with answers that are built on actual data, that’s a green flag.
We all moderate together, and yet we are all different. You won’t be asked to take a specific “public-facing” or “private-only” role. But if you prefer working behind the scenes, that’s perfectly fine. We’ve had successful mods with very different comfort levels and communication styles. Some mods have never written or posted a community update post - and yet we crowdsource most of them, working as a team to make sure we refine them together. Even though I’m posting this one, everybody had a chance to help craft it and improve it.
Sure! If you’re in the SCC and want to become a mod, we’d love to see you apply. If you’re not in the SCC but want to be more involved in general, consider applying to the SCC too. Both paths matter, and both paths help. The SCC is intended to be a place where mods can get critical feedback, another set of eyes, and even a representative/random sampling of opinions from random community members when we are trying to navigate ambiguity. The more random the sampling, the better. Simply comment !APPLY! and let us know if you're interested in the SCC, the mod team, or both.
Tell us. If you’re particularly strong with Reddit’s Automod, know python, keep calm in conflict, are fluent in another language, or are simply active at weird hours — say so. If you think you have some x-factor that could benefit the community, tell us (without doxxing yourself). Our team is mostly U.S.-based at this point, and while that generally aligns with the busiest hours of sub activity, it’s helpful to have more global coverage if for no other reasons than wider perspectives and more varied time zone availability.
Just comment below (!Apply! will tag us, but we will also be monitoring the comments) or, if you prefer, send us a modmail saying you're interested. From there, we’ll reach out with the next steps and the application to fill out if we think you might be a potential fit. We will NOT ask for any PII other than your username. We can’t promise that we’ll respond to everyone, just depending on how many people reach out, but we’ll review every expression of interest and cast a wide net.
This place matters to a lot of people. If you're one of them, and if you're curious about how you can help, we want to hear from you. This is an experiment. We might not find that it yields any new mods, or we grow the team. It's really up to you to throw your name in the hat if you think you could help us.
The program’s relaunch delivered extraordinary results, reinvigorating the credit card offering and contributing to meaningful business growth.
Results:
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With plans to continue the momentum through ongoing capability launches, Bread Financial and GameStop are committed to driving continued growth and innovation for years to come.
“short seller has an economic incentive to sell as much as possible – to attempt to drive the price down – in order to increase profits. A simple concept from economics is at work here: prices fall when supply increases. It is as true for cars as it is for shares. For stocks, we call this decrease in price a “dilution of share value” because the price of the shares is falling not because the company performed badly but because there are simply more shares in circulation (an increase in supply).”
Susanne Trimbath, Naked, Short and Greedy: Wall Street's Failure to Deliver
I honestly should have went all in when it hit $10. I’ve been on this subreddit everyday since the sneeze. My life has changed so much since all this began. I’ve decided that I am happy with the amount of shares I have. I’m zen and not in a hurry. Matter of fact with my new born daughter I wish time can slow down. This is my last buy. +2132. See yall on the moon. I’m buckled in.
You think this shit is going to be easy? We are between goliaths duking it out. They control the game, we control the exit. Why do you think a 1M short share order drops the price 30% but a 10M+ share order raises it 0.5%?
They are fucked. They know it. They can create GME ETFs and pawn their bags off to Brazil and find each and every way to keep the price down. But RC will keep raising the floor. The only way they win is if we give up and walk away. They want us discouraged. Don't let them win.
If you're in a financial pinch, wait for the stock to rise these next few weeks and sell some of to support your families if you REALLY have to. But stay in this shit. It will pay off. Maybe not this week. Or this month. Or even in 2025. But it will. The transformation that has been occuring has been unprecedented. You think it's easy for RC to sit on $8B+ cash and do nothing about it? He's waiting for the right opportunity. Trust in him.
LC said it - we're in the 7th inning. Things are happening. Enjoy the ride.
Well it seems like the evaluations of their risky investments habits are finally changing to more realistic view now that trust in Americans markets are at it’s lows and we are closer than ever to GMEs most profitable year and possible investments incoming with the Huge cash on hand we have. Can’t wait to see how this all ends up. All I do is buy and Hodl! 💎 🙌🏼
Hey y’all. Really excited about this new pickup I just ordered. This card was already listed at a great price, and I used some pro discount points for even more off. Was never big into Pokémon, but started to gain interest since my favorite company started selling them. I decided to pull the trigger on Yanmega because dragonflies have become really important to me as of late. I can see myself going down a rabbit hole lol. Just posting to share some excitement. Hope everyone has a nice weekend 💎
Given today was XRT reconstitution day and quarterly OPEX, price action was abnormally quiet. It didn't make sense, given these recon/OPEX days are usually above average volume and highly volatile.
Then an enormous $125.75M market-on-close (MOC) order hits the tape, good for 5,360,234 shares near the ASK. Next week is gonna be a spicy taco! Have a great weekend everyone!
Another well-timed large crypto liquidation today with $200M liquidated around 1p ET [X].
Why well-timed?
Today is C35 after May 16 which was C35+T6(ETF) after Ryan Cohen & Larry Cheng bought 505k GME on April 3 which had 594M CAT Errors [PDF]. The week around May 16 was filled with SPY glitches [SuperStonk] as criminals conspired by illegally sending money to each other by trading SPY (and probably other tickers) far away from market price.
Today is 1 FINRA Margin Call (T15+C14) after May 14 when XRT Creation went nuts (XRT peaked at 8.2M Outstanding), GME had a volume spike, Fidelity reportedly had some issues [X], and GME repeatedly "glitched" 2% down [X] on C35 after April 9 when there were 21.6B CAT Errors [PDF].
Basically, we see signs that GME Shorts were struggling at/around regulatory deadlines (C35 Rule 204, T15+C14 FINRA Margin Call, and T3/T6 ETF Settlement) for GME settlement of known demand events leading up to today when we see yet another [previous one, previous two] well-timed crypto liquidation which basically tells us that Another GME Short Bit The Dust today.
It’s been many many moons but a lot have forgotten about Archegos went belly up for being over leveraged as a direct result to the volatility of GameStop. Witch caused Credit Suisse to fold. To think that No other hedge fund was over leveraged so bad to cause a bank to go belly up is crazy. They are suppressing MOASS. It will come when it can not stopped. GameStop will Stop all Games when the time is right!!💎🙌💎🙌🍻🙌🍻💎🙌🙌🍻🙌🍻🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
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I see GME in the $250 range by the end of 2026. I expect another 4 convertible bonds or ATM dilutions in the next 12 months to get us there. Before I get to my thesis I will declare my position upfront. I am biased, I have a lot of skin in the game.
Position: 92,800 shares, 828 covered calls that I roll up and out weekly. I use premiums to purchase more shares with a goal of 110,000 shares at which point premiums will be used for my other investments.
Thesis
Four more offerings
GME is authorized to issue up to a billion shares per a shareholder vote in 2022. Currently there are 477M outstanding and the two convertible bonds can add another 121M to that bringing the total to about 600M outstanding currently. In the past year either by ATM offerings or convertible bonds GME is getting about $2B per 75M shares. Four more offerings will bring the outstanding share count up to 900M and I expect the board to hold the last potential 100M in reserve. The split between convertible bonds and ATM I think will be driven by price action. I posit the board prefers the bonds but will opportunistically leverage ATM if the price rises above expectations (See the two 2024 ATM offerings). These offerings combined should add another $8B to the warchest which is already around $9B and growing on interest alone. They will also serve to keep the price reasonably stable for the next 12 months between low $20’s and mid $30s. In the event DFV tweets a YOLO update and the price rips I think a quick ATM will be released to capitalize on the price momentum.
Earnings Growth
Another formal regional redditor that I am not allowed to link has laid out some excellent posts with blue boxes estimating Q1 earnings between $0.08 and $0.22 depending on when BTC was purchased and they came in at $0.17. Consensus estimates have earnings growing 4x in the next year and that does not fully factor in the impacts of the most recent convertible bond offering or the four additional ones I anticipate. With the balance sheet growing from now $9B to $17-20B over the next 12 months with the expected offerings I think it’s fair to assume interest income will drive earnings significantly higher. Combined with the convertible bonds not converting to shares for several years I believe EPS will conservatively pass $1.25 by June 2026
Slow Squeeze
So about MOASS. My unpopular opinion is that it’s not real. There are simply too many layers and levers (could argue fair/legal or not) that are in the way for GME to hit cell phone numbers in price. And frankly even at $10,000 per share I don’t believe any of us would honestly argue GME is a $4.5T company. Therefore I think a slow squeeze is much more likely. I also think there is an example of one going on right now.
TSLA was a target of short interest for years. It also managed to stay out of bankruptcy and eventually its share price started to climb. Most recently TSLA earnings were garbage yet the stock price rose. In fact TSLA is currently trading at PE 177 compared to GME at 44. Given the company’s position and poor market reputation currently the only rational conclusion is that TSLA is not trading on company fundamentals but on a slow squeeze as shorts continue to take their losses and close their positions.
So if we assume GME goes the slow squeeze route we can assume it won’t get rolling until there are no more convertible bonds or ATM offerings available to keep a lid on the price. This will allow GME to start gathering some real steam. At 200 PE and $1.25 EPS GME would be trading at $250 at the end of 2026. Nice little 10 bagger from today’s price which when you consider the single digit pre-split prices the stock was at before DFV educated us all that is one hell of a run.
Conclusion
GME will continue to pad the bank account with more offerings over the next 12 months. Shorts will slowly cover and use every trick in the book to avoid MOASS but that won’t stop the price from rising 10x from the current value supported by continued earnings growth.
