> Why does it matter what the discussion was about? Because anybody would get pissed off if they were called that for doing their job (stopping a witch hunt).

> Why does it matter what the discussion was about? Because anybody would get pissed off if they were called that for doing their job (stopping a witch hunt). He inadvertently deflected the hatred causing the doxing of a pizza shop to himself. He should have just ignored it, since you can't really nuke the thread or it'd make things worse, but at the end of the day you'd still feel like shit. > and now it's no secret that they were right. Editing user content tends to get caught. Especially in high profile shit like the elections. The editing tools he used were probably spam related (so the spammer wouldn't know). The "known secret" was that they were trying not to drown /r/all in US politics everyday, which is justifiable.