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And what were the changes like? Curious.
by 0xmohit 10y ago
And what were the changes like? Curious.
- jandrese 10y agoFrom what I understand people on The_Donald subreddit were accusing him of being a shill, so he edited his name in those posts to be The_Donald's moderators instead. If you had guessed stupid political garbage mixed with internet trolling, congratulations you get a cookie.
- hashhar 10y agoActually the people on /r/The_Donald branched off and opened another discussion that led to the Pizzagate (accusing a restraunt owner, Hillary Clinton and others of being pedophiles). And when /u/spez deleted the Pizzagate stuff (people were actually harassing the restruant owner), the mods started abusing and accusing /u/spez of being a pedophile. And also take note that witch-hunting is prohibited on reddit and can warrant legal action.
- hartator 10y agoHe replaced "fuck /u/his user ame/" by "fuck /u/the_donald mod/" in several comments in other poeple comments.
- siidooloo 10y agoPeople were accusing him of being a pedophile because redit removed a subreddit that was involved in a conspiracy falsley accusing other people of being pedophiles. He changed the attribution of the accusation to be against the people doing the brigading.
- 0xmohit 10y agoFunny. They site says that they don't do that. Quoting from Reddit Help: Will you remove something defamatory about me or my friend? [0]: The best way to deal with incorrect information on the Internet is to post the correct information next to it. The reddit community is usually very supportive of such a response, and will likely vote to give the correction greater prominence than the original post. Redditors love a good counterpoint. [0] https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204528069-Will-you-remove-something-defamatory-about-me-or-my-friend- https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204528069-Will-...
- siidooloo 10y agoWitch hunts and brigading are also against their rules.
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoThat quote heavily suggests that it's talking about a one-off post rather than a foaming-at-the-mouth mob spamming libellous abuse.
- 0xmohit 10y agoIn that event, wouldn't it better to pull down the post? Better than edits, no?
- oneeyedpigeon 10y agoOf course, but like I said in another post, human beings are not 100% rational 100% of the time, particularly when suffering from a barrage of abuse.
- meowface 10y agoSure, but he should resign. Pizzagate is ridiculous, "spez is a pedo accusations" are ridiculous, but a CEO of a massive (user-wise) company silently and childishly editing their comments in a confusing way is also ridiculous.
- user5994461 10y agoThe reddit community is usually very supportive of such a response No they're not. They prefer trolling or upvoting whatever sounds cooler.
- bartl 10y agoArticle about the incident including the original comment in which u/spez admitted to what he had done: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ceo-reddit-confessed-modifying-posts-022041192.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/ceo-reddit-confessed-modifying-po...