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Post by casefields »

dekhn wrote: post #194
tyho wrote: post #139

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Stop defending pedophile apologists before you know the full facts of the case. Her father raped and tortured (a car battery was involved) a ten year old. This happened over multiple days whilst the child was tied to the rafters in the attic of the family home. This is the same house Aimee Chancellor was living in at the time. But she claims she didn't know and she was not on trial. Regardless, during the trial photo…

I'm confused. Why did reddit hire this person?

A trans activist is a fantastic hire to brag about how diverse we are!

Yes I'm being cynical but why else hire someone with such a history for a social media company?

Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

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Post by justbored123 »

koolba wrote: post #232
pen2l wrote: post #152

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This gets brought up a lot. And it's a bit of a doozy to make sense of. First, consider the context: the CEO (spez) was an easy punching bag on the_donald subreddit, in fact it was a bit of a meme there to attack reddit's admins (and those in the know do know that the attacks were often crossing a line, like accusing them of being pedophiles and things of the nature). The change that spez made was a bit of a joke its…

> I think what I'm trying to say is, whatever may be your feelings of Reddit and its stature, this particular act by spez was pretty insignifiant in the grand scheme of things. In court there’s a concept called “falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”[1]. If you’re shown to have lied to the court once, then anything else you’ve said can be considered to be a lie as well. You lose the assumption of good faith of the judge a…

Sorry to be so cynic, but why do you assume good faith on the part of Reddit? It's a free product, you are not paying for it, they don't owe you a damn thing. If they don't care about their reputation, they can do whatever they want with your comments, including changing them or deleting them.

This is the problem of free stuff, you have no leverage and little to no value to the company as a single user, and if you are the kind of problematic user such as the ones in The Donal, you have negative value because you scare away the ads and ruin the companies reputation, so they actually have a very powerful incentive to push you away and make you leave the site.

Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

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Post by collyw »

xqyf wrote: post #153
andrewzah wrote: post #69

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It definitely has gotten much worse in the last few years. From Spez silent-editing users posts, to reddit employing an "Anti-Evil Operations team". I've been using reddit since ~2012.

They never recovered from the Diggification. So weird to remember it from 2010 and think that it would eventually host the_donald and other white supremacy subreddits that sealed its Eternal September.

>the_donald and other white supremacy subreddits

The Donald wasn't a white supremacist subreddit.

Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

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Post by Mountain_Skies »

dekhn wrote: post #194
tyho wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stop defending pedophile apologists before you know the full facts of the case. Her father raped and tortured (a car battery was involved) a ten year old. This happened over multiple days whilst the child was tied to the rafters in the attic of the family home. This is the same house Aimee Chancellor was living in at the time. But she claims she didn't know and she was not on trial. Regardless, during the trial photo…

I'm confused. Why did reddit hire this person?

Some have hypothesized that Reddit was trying to increase their diversity numbers but it seems more likely that she's friends with someone or has a group of friends at Reddit and that's how she made it though whatever hiring process they have. Reddit doesn't strike me as the type of place that's very rigorous when it comes to process so knowing the right people might have been enough. Of course this is all conjecture.

Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

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Post by ncann »

bulibuta wrote: post #358
pumaontheprowl wrote: post #66

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The new UX on the site is unusable. I don't use anything except old.reddit.com and if they ever try to get rid of that, I'll surely stop visiting the site altogether. You have to wonder how long they'll continue to maintain two different web frontends for the site, though.

I use teddit.net since it was first posted here on HN. Can't login, but the UX is awesome, just like Old Reddit!

How is it different from old.reddit?

Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

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Post by markdown »

bloopernova wrote: post #314
irrational wrote: post #300

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>that Reddit employees have the ability to edit messages with no audit trail and no governance. Help me understand this. Reddit is a private company. Is there some sort of contract somewhere that says they won't edit messages and will maintain an audit trail? I mean, I might not like that they are doing it, but I'm also not paying a dime for Reddit (and I have all ads blocked, so they doubly aren't making any money o…

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 know it can be done. Why is everyone pretending otherwise? Is it performative?

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Post by danellis »

irrational wrote: post #329
danellis wrote: post #324

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If Reddit publishes the claim that I wrote something that I didn't, I don't see how that wouldn't be potentially libelous.

How would anyone know it was you? I assume you aren't stupid enough to use your real name on Reddit or make any self-identifying remarks.

Yes, like many people, I use my real name on HN. (But not on Reddit, of course.) And people frequently identify themselves on HN by linking to their blogs or projects. I wouldn't call those people stupid.

Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

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Post by twinge »

xqyf wrote: post #249
zouhair wrote: post #72

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www.reddit.com --> old.reddit.com

This plugin redirects you to old.reddit automatically: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec...

You don't need a plugin, just go to http://old.reddit.com/prefs, scroll to the bottom, and uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default experience"

Re: Reddit’s most popular subreddits go private in protest against ‘censorship’

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Post by wcarron »

esja wrote: post #140
Rebelgecko wrote: post #52

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…

I agree, but a minor nitpick: Aimee was forced out not just for being connected to pedophiles, but also for lying about and/or endorsing them (among other issues). A massive failure of safeguarding from the Greens and Lib Dems, and now from Reddit. It's astonishing to me that a person like this can become an admin on a website used by millions of teenagers. We already know that admins can access private messages and…

I have seen allegations on reddit that Aimee also moderated a number of subreddits, specifically ones pertaining to minors, before, during, and after her fathers' rape and torture of a 10 year old in the house she lived in.

Allowing a person who willfully ignored pedophilia and torture be in a position of power near/directly engaging with minors, and then hiring that person, is despicable.

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Post by robertoandred »

ok123456 wrote: post #327
ryandrake wrote: post #26

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They can always just stop using Reddit. Digg went this way, too, and it ended badly for them.

People revolted against Digg because their redesign was a mess. Reddit's redesign is an equal disaster and viewing it on a phone is impossible because it employs dark patters to force you into an app. Yet, there's no proportional response in this case.

People didn't revolt against Digg because of the redesign, they revolted because Digg gave publishers priority over the site content instead of users.
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