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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: 2) by tathra on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:15PM
if the whole post is bad, sure, but often there would be a good, useful post with somebody's phone number or a website or something tacked on there, so deleting the whole post would be overkill. the goal in harm reduction is to save lives, and getting more people to adopt the mindset helps the cause, deleting a whole post rather than just the offending information can lead to a counter-productive "well fuck you too" kind of response from the poster, decreasing our pool of knowledge and potential lifesavers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:26PM
People before rules.