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What a disingenuous comment. Comparing this to a single instance of an admin prank done in good fun that was changed back immediately.
by tehwebguy 9y ago
What a disingenuous comment. Comparing this to a single instance of an admin prank done in good fun that was changed back immediately.
- chomp 9y agoWell, in their defense, good fun for some. But yeah, an entire organization funded by a foreign government to subvert Western civilization and democracy does not compare to a single modified comment.
- Algent 9y agoIt also probably left traces in the mysql(postgres?) logs. It shouldn't surprise anyone on HN that you can freely edit your own data. More generally it's very common for forums to have a post edited by mods/admin, usually the edit will show up but if you mess with them they may be tempted to hit back and forget to set the "changed by xxxx" flag.
- Karunamon 9y agoFirst, "single instance" isn't fair since it was multiple comments that were edited. Second, silently misattributing words to people (he went behind the site's back, into the database, so the "comment edited" star never appeared) is not a "prank", it's a serious breach of trust, unprecedented in the history of the site, and calls into question anything anyone has ever written. If I remember right, this was only ever proven because archive snapshots of the comments pre-edit existed. If someone familiar with Reddit history now is ever called to legally account for their comments, Reddit Inc. now gets to be called and has to prove they didn't screw with the posts. Can you say liability exposure? Sheesh. There are some lines you just don't cross. If Huffman would edit people's comments on the sly for funsies, it shows he has no professional ethics that would prevent him from doing the same thing in a more important situation. What's to say he hasn't already in the matter of some other litigation we're not aware of?