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> Huffman can no longer edit the site indiscriminately There's precisely zero proof of this.
by JorgeGT 9y ago
> Huffman can no longer edit the site indiscriminately
There's precisely zero proof of this.
- ManlyBread 9y agoWasn't there a case where he did precisely that by editing a post of a Trump supporter?
- saynay 9y agoObviously not, there is no way to prove it.
- bduerst 9y agoi.e. You can't prove a negative
- adpirz 9y agoIt's described in the article... EDIT: I misunderstood OP, I thought the comment was saying there was zero proof of Huffman's ability to tamper in the first place. Agreed there's no way to prove he can't do this anymore.
- Nadya 9y agoMind quoting the passage that describes the measures in place? I just read the entire article and absolutely zero proof is provided that Huffman can no longer edit things. It mentions Spezgiving, followed by Huffman's apology, and then moves onto banning subreddits, to the meeting about banning subreddits, and ends at /r/Place and the worry it'd be nothing but swastikas. Absolutely nowhere is anything described about the measures in place to prevent Huffman - or anyone else at Reddit for that matter - from editing posts.
- adpirz 9y agoThanks for clarifying, I misunderstood OP's comment, just updated my own.
- losteric 9y agoTampering can be detected with internet archives and data dumps of Reddit submissions/comments.
- gruez 9y agoand how many people are running bots/scrapers to do this? also, how do you know whether the OP edited it, or it was an admin?
- losteric 9y agoThere are multiple sources of internet archives and reddit-specific archivals. re: edits; check whether the post sentiment changes, I'm not worried about admins fixing typos/grammar. Also, investors understand trust is a prerequisite to profit... editing shenanigans are intolerable.
- sodafountan 9y agoAnybody with unrestricted access to a SQL server can manipulate whatever they want.