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Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him

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668 points wildmusings | 2 comments | 24 Nov 16 00:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.508s | source
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necessity ◴[24 Nov 16 01:11 UTC] No.13027120[source]▶
Not surprising at all.
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grzm ◴[24 Nov 16 01:14 UTC] No.13027140[source]▶
Why? Would you add some context to your comment?
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necessity ◴[24 Nov 16 01:21 UTC] No.13027182[source]▶
Reddit is known for censoring subreddits the admins do not like or when they're involved in some drama, they have a specific algorithm to filter out Trump's subreddit from /r/all[1][2], the default subs are strictly aligned with the admins' political views, and recently the CEO mocked Facebook's knowledge of their users data saying that at Reddit they know not only what one publicly speaks (such as in Facebook), but also their users "darkest secrets" (in an interview about advertising on Reddit).

[1] https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/1373659 [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/shittychangelog/comments/59s3ao/red...

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1. threeseed ◴[24 Nov 16 01:50 UTC] No.13027360[source]▶
That is complete and utter nonsense. Nothing you said is true.

You can visit http://reddit.com/r/all and see that Pro-trump posts are always in the top 10 and at least 2 will be shown in the top 40. So no they don't filter our pro-Trump posts. They merely made the algorithm more balanced to showcase some of the smaller sites.

And the defaults are not political at all:

https://www.reddit.com/r/defaults/comments/4l3svc/list_of_de...

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2. necessity ◴[24 Nov 16 02:23 UTC] No.13027519[source]▶
>They merely made the algorithm more balanced to showcase some of the smaller sites

By... Filtering out r/The_Donald. You can claim the reason was apolitical. Fine. But I think you have to be extremely naive to do so, given what was going on on reddit during the elections.

>And the defaults are not political at all:

Some are not, some are. All that are, are aligned with the admins' political view and routinely ban users that disagree with them.