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

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668 points wildmusings | 3 comments | 24 Nov 16 00:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ww520 ◴[24 Nov 16 01:17 UTC] No.13027156[source]▶
This is pretty bad. That pretty much destroys the credibility of Reddit's commenting system in a single act. No one can look at the integrity of the comments written by others the same any more.
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1. dabockster ◴[24 Nov 16 02:31 UTC] No.13027549[source]▶
>That pretty much destroys the credibility of Reddit's commenting system in a single act.

Didn't they already do that when Morgan Freeman's AMA was staged? (If not Freeman, then another AMA. Some big celebrity's AMA was staged within the past year.)

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2. qq66 ◴[24 Nov 16 02:46 UTC] No.13027613[source]▶
That's different because it's an end-user action, not an internal action. I always know that the person who is saying that they're a Navy SEAL may not be or that it might be Morgan Freeman's or President Obama's PR person answering the questions. It's a lot different when the site admins use their root privileges to put words in people's mouths. Imagine if someone edited your comment or my comment to include a bunch of racist or hateful comments.
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3. theWatcher37 ◴[24 Nov 16 15:13 UTC] No.13030693[source]▶
The more of the pizza gate subreddit were circulating an image showing mod "Reddit" unbanning accounts they had banned for posting dox.

Their claim is the admins were unbanning users posting PII as pretext for nuking the sub