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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Who cares? Why is this a big deal? I am so unbelievably unimpressed with the seriousness of this, I feel like there is such an enormous effort to pretend this is "serious business" and "the integrity of reddit" (?) is somehow being compromised. We all knew this could be done. On any forum. Reddit is a silly place. Reddit is a place for people to shitpost memes and puns with throwaway accounts. The Donald is a subreddit that revels in trolling and messing with people, spewing toxic garbage nonstop. They riled up the main admin of reddit so much he did something childish -- a pretty impressive trolling effort. That's the end of this story as far as I can tell.
- Mr. President, are you going to deport american citizens?
- No, I am absolutely not going to do that.
That gets ninja edited to:
- I am absolutely going to do that.
Can you imagine the uproar that would cause? We already have people in the media holding their breath for the next Trump's tweet - if something like this happened, there would be panic, hysteria, people having health complications.
This is extremely serious. Even if this were to be rolled back, damage would already be done by then. That would be akin to screaming "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
If anything, a more realistic vision of what will happen:
-Asker: Mr President, <insert question>
-President: <insert unpopular answer>
-Fans of President: I BET THEY EDITED THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER and a bunch of drama
I'll humor you and imagine your ridiculous doomsday scenario. Trump would say "that's not what I said, it was edited" and his supporters would stop using reddit and everyone would stop trusting it as a serious source. Crisis averted, win/win/win. Can we make that happen please ASAP?
Really, the one this actually hurts is Reddit itself. To hurl in this stinkbomb when a good chunk of the site already considers itself at war with the management... Just profoundly stupid.