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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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elevensies ◴[24 Nov 16 05:23 UTC] No.13028358[source]▶
The CEO of Reddit is officially a cursed position, on par with the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts.

In other circumstances this might have gotten laughed off, but The Donald has really developed a bunker mentality IMO after having mods doxxed, the algorithm changed to end their front page dominance, lots of other subs being anti-Trump, and the general tenor of the campaign against Trump.

I hope Spez can take a nice relaxing weekend holiday and let someone else deal with this shit-hurricane.

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aaron695 ◴[24 Nov 16 06:54 UTC] No.13028697[source]▶
> The CEO of Reddit is officially a cursed position

Not sure it's a curse when you list all the things being done to the sub-reddit?

They get attacked, so they fought back? To be expected, no?

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1. elevensies ◴[24 Nov 16 11:22 UTC] No.13029745[source]▶
I'm saying its a curse because:

- Yishan Wongs various missteps and eventual bizzare (looking) departure

- Ellen Pao had haters on the site from day 1, Hitler memes etcetera. And then when they fired u/Chooter all hell broke loose and some subs were shut down by their own mods. The integrity of AMA was permanently ruined by this IMO. Anyway, Pao was hated by the idiots immediately, but hated universally after this.

- Spez started strong but this is going to affect his credibility, and seems to me to be part of the same downward spiral that happens to the CEOs when they get caught up in some bullshit happening on the site.

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2. mememachine ◴[24 Nov 16 12:50 UTC] No.13030042[source]▶
The real trouble is that its CEOs are all far far far too involved in the going ons of the communities.
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3. psyc ◴[24 Nov 16 16:03 UTC] No.13030942[source]▶
No kidding. They create a platform, and then continually panic like "Oh no! People are using the platform! What do we do? How do we stop people using the platform while making it seem like we want people to use the platform? People are using the site! Something must be done!"