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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: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:10PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:10PM (#433657) Homepage Journal

    The reason for the troll bans is that trolls run legit users from the site. K5 was a good site until Rusty took his eye off the ball and the trolls took over. It's a ghost town now,

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @02:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @02:29AM (#434316)

    Well, this site doesn't ban people merely for trolling, and I quite like that even if I disagree with the troll posts. Maybe a lot of "legit users" are just cowards?