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Reddit CEO Admits Editing Users' Messages

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 26 2016, @08:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the when-people-don't-think-things-through-all-the-way dept.

francois.barbier writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:13AM (#433529)

    I didn't grow up with a text message device in my hands, and the entire format looks stupid to me.

    Really 160 characters ought to be enough for anybo