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

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668 points wildmusings | 1 comments | 24 Nov 16 00:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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eridius ◴[24 Nov 16 03:14 UTC] No.13027728[source]▶
Did anybody seriously think that reddit admins didn't have the power to do this all along? They can go edit the database directly if they want.
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1. mzw_mzw ◴[24 Nov 16 21:02 UTC] No.13032741[source]▶
It's not that people didn't know the admins have the power; it's that people didn't believe they'd use the power.

Your local police or military could just barge into your house and kill you at any time. They have the power to do that. Society functions to the extent that you don't believe they will do that. If you found out one day that your local police chief had, under cover of law, busted into someone's house and waved a gun at them over a petty personal dispute, though, your faith would be a little shaken.