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I highly doubt secretly editing a comment of another user is one of his account's listed privledges. Not marked edited, I highly doubt its a built-in feature of
by 69mlgsniperdad 10y ago
I highly doubt secretly editing a comment of another user is one of his account's listed privledges. Not marked edited, I highly doubt its a built-in feature of the website for even administrators. What if a low level employee, who doesn't even have privilege to ban users, had leveraged his technical back-end access to their databases to alter a comment. Act as the person who made the original comment, effectively impersonating them by using their technical access to reddit's data to basically 'hack' that users account. I highly doubt this is 'within his rights' as a founder, as someone here commented...
- defgeneric 10y agoAt the same time though, you'd imagine reddit has some sort of distributed backend so that getting direct access to the datastore and doing something like UPDATE the_donald SET comment = replace('/u/spez', '/u/notspez', comment) WHERE 'fuck /u/spez' in lowercase(comment); would create massive consistency headaches.
- iso-8859-1 10y agoReddit has the infrastructure for censorship, they have had to remove content before.
- samstave 10y agoTrue but thats not what we are talking about