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I got it on an email address linked to an account that was banned in 2020.

I was a semi-power user before leaving (13k link karma, 134k comments) and also received the IPO offer per email and per notification. I reported the notification as spam :)

It's so obvious that they want to squeeze some money out before everything goes down the drain.

Please don't forget to fill in the form anyway, with fake data. This will let them believe there are more interested users than reality

Same here. I don't even live in the states.

Gme bros don't short shit

I got one, too, which is hilarious because not only was I not a "power user," but I torched all of my comments and posts with Redacted 7 months ago and have not touched the site since. I even avoid it when it comes up in Google results for something I'm looking into.

But they still sent me one of these stupid IPO emails.

I mean, obviously there is no human oversight or thought process behind these whatsoever. We all knew that. Probably anyone who has an existing account and a positive karma score got one, and I'm not even sure the threshold is that high.

But I guess we're all here doing their work for them anyway, because here we are talking about -- even if it is to ridicule -- and generating "buzz." I'm sure that's what they want, somehow.

They are going out in stages based on # of mod actions or karma. I think the lowest Karma threshold in the final batch was 25k. Which seems like a lot, but isn't really, at least for the users they alienated in the API debacle.

This is just for the sign-up for information, though. Once they get the whole list they will start going down the list of sign-ups from the top, and start asking for money. Because this isn't a free share offering, it's a chance to buy at the IPO price. So even out of the list of Redditors who signed up, a bunch will pass, because if they had a few extra $10k sitting around, they would put anywhere else except Reddit.

And I don't think they have broken out how many shares are part of this program. (To be fair I haven't looked that closely). I predict that no matter how many people sign up, they will reject 90% just for the optics. They are only doing this for the free publicity, and rhe fact that they think Redditors will have emotional attachment to the shares for being let into the "club". So they will only give out enough for the press to write stories about it.

Someone redo this, but as an ad trying to get people to short reddit to the ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImgMfJ2Lt2E

I got it as well. My accounts were banned... and then all the sudden an IPO comes along and the are unsuspended.... i went back in and redacted my accounts that got the email.

I deleted the email I got. I rarely if ever delete emails. Let that set in. I hope it had a return receipt!

I did not get one and my account has a shit ton of karma. But the bio says that Reddit can go down in flames and to go to Lemmy, so that's probably why.