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I find it interesting that Reddit still manages to find themselves invoking the Streisand effect in full force.
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The content of Reddit comments have been used in legal proceedings. It's a huge deal that the CEO has edit permissions in the main Reddit site database, they simply shouldn't have that access at all.
> It's a huge deal that the CEO has edit permissions in the main Reddit site database Surely you jest! Do you know how programs work? You don't think HN comments can't be edited by anyone with access to the DB and permission to make changes? Frankly the idea that people on HN thought that people who run a website can't edit the content on it is one of the most bizarre, disingenuous things I've read on here. You all k…
Reddit feels very Soviet lately. Everything is heavily manipulated and it seems like users are aware of that fact but are powerless to change anything.
This is probably because I'm focusing my participation on subs where the users are unified by a similar interest in an area of creative expression and participation.
Follow controversy, anger or FUD and you'll just get sucked into it in a sort of meta way. Anger because of the anger, controversy because of the controversy, FUD because of the FUD.
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The content of Reddit comments have been used in legal proceedings. It's a huge deal that the CEO has edit permissions in the main Reddit site database, they simply shouldn't have that access at all.
> It's a huge deal that the CEO has edit permissions in the main Reddit site database Surely you jest! Do you know how programs work? You don't think HN comments can't be edited by anyone with access to the DB and permission to make changes? Frankly the idea that people on HN thought that people who run a website can't edit the content on it is one of the most bizarre, disingenuous things I've read on here. You all k…
In a system as large as Reddit, there's rarely a good reason for a human to be running hand-written SQL commands in prod.
Reddit has addressed the situation here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way: https://www.reddit.com/r/modsupport/comments/mbqgx2 However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name. This whole situation is incredibly bizarre to me. In the first place, why would reddit hire a 23 year old admin whose greatest accompli…
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Do you want projects that you disagree with deplatformed? That's pretty extremist position to take. Why do you think it is a good idea?
I want content that condones pedophilia, bestiality, and other extreme pornography deplatformed yes. Why do you want to keep it up?
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To be fair, nobody has an edit button on any Google Groups post anymore. Nobody has any buttons on them, in fact. Also, when it happened, he also pointed out that most reddit admins weren't able to do this.
> Also, when it happened, he also pointed out that most reddit admins weren't able to do this. That’s worse though, right? Why does he have this special functionality the other admins don’t have? Why would the CEO ever legitimately need to personally edit a reddit comment? Surely he has many better things to do.
He wrote the site's first version, and co-wrote the (modern) Python version. Lots of things stay in place in legacy systems.
Reddit has addressed the situation here, in a mealy mouthed sort of way: https://www.reddit.com/r/modsupport/comments/mbqgx2 However they seem to be denying the accusations that admins (possibly including the individual in question) were manually editing contents containing her name. This whole situation is incredibly bizarre to me. In the first place, why would reddit hire a 23 year old admin whose greatest accompli…
Also, there was a lot of circumstantial evidence alleging Ghislaine Maxwell was a powerful mod on reddit, with a very disgusting collection of "evidence"[2]
[1]https://www.businessinsider.com/ghislaine-maxwell-attended-k...
[2]https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/hnckn0/umaxwellhil...
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He's been remarkably open every time he's changed user content (once with a post in 200...7? I think, and the single time he edited comments). I don't like reddit, and I don't like spez for other reasons (downgraded from Lisp to Python), but what he did was literally just a harmless joke. All reddit posts and comments are publicly archived by services like pushshift; we'd know if they had a habit of doing this.
You’re saying he was open about it in all the cases that are public. Kind of like the NSA has been open about all its tools that we know about.