According to /u/Spez, Reddit CEO, the reports of messages edited without any user consent or knowledge are correct as he admits to have done it so himself:
Hey Everyone,
Yep. I messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It's been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff. As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. As the CEO, I shouldn't play such games, and it's all fixed now. Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won't do this again.
Fuck u/spez.
The edits were made in a thread linked from the Washington Post which described the recent ban of the /r/pizzagate subreddit which tried to uncover child-molesters and recently moved to voat.co.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @03:33AM
Looking in the mirror again? Or just speed reading making you think you understand something because you read words?
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday November 27 2016, @06:27AM
I mean, look at this site. We don't even delete MikeeUSA's posts (or mine when I go full retard). If comments are being edited by people who aren't the poster, that tells me that I can't trust anything posted to Reddit as at least being somebody's authentic opinion. I'd say Reddit is free to do it; it's just a massive blow to any credibility that site might have had in the way of controversial commentary. I gather from previous comments that Reddit has other uses, which I guess if that's what they want to be, more power to them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @05:25PM
Which is what I was saying. There is still value in the site, but people should be aware that the admins are malicious authoritarian dickbags. That was apparently too hard for the other two in this thread to parse. "Whaaa? You can have two somewhat conflicting opinions at the same time??"