WSB was definitely not within normal parameters as the main threads needed to be unpinned for new ones to take their place due to the sheer volume of comments on said threads. In addition, the likely hundreds of threads opened per minute by bots forced the moderators to take down the subreddit until u/zjz and reddit's team managed to get a handle on the situation and update u/zjz's bots with new parameters to avoid the astroturfing/fud/disinformation campaign.