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: 0s | 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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1. johnnydoe9 ◴[24 Nov 16 12:55 UTC] No.13030064[source]▶

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No, dude it's his fault and people are angry. This is a huge violation of trust and shouldn't be downplayed like that.

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2. elevensies ◴[24 Nov 16 18:10 UTC] No.13031745[source]▶

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Because it is his fault, that is why I think he shouldn't try to personally deal with it. The Donald was attacking him personally, which is against Reddit policy (no personal attacks,) but he fumbled the ball and weakened his ability to reform them. I don't think there has ever been trust between the mods of The Donald and the reddit admins.

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