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> Can you imagine the reaction if a user's post on HN were edited by YC? If the user's post was about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and included baseless, hi

> Can you imagine the reaction if a user's post on HN were edited by YC? If the user's post was about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and included baseless, highly offensive libel of the YC folks? Yeah, I don't think many people here would care. Especially since most users here understand that a website's comment database can be edited arbitrarily, it's not nearly as unthinkable as you assume. Don't like it, get your own website.

simonh 8y ago
I would care. Deleting a post is one thing and that's fine because it's clear what was done and why, but editing a post surreptitiously is a deliberate attempt to deceive and that's not acceptable.
- zozbot123 8y ago
  It was not an attempt to deceive, it was a way of visibly trolling back people who were dumb enough to libel the Reddit CEO on his own website, in extremely offensive ways. And he owned up to it very quickly after it happened.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
    "Fuck /u/spez" is not libel, and is not even particularly offensive. And yes, he "owned up", but without apologizing. EDIT: So actually on https://www.reddit.com/comments/5frg1n https://www.reddit.com/comments/5frg1n he did actually say that he was sorry and he wouldn't do it again. That's interesting, because I have a very strong memory of that not being the case. Weird. Either there was an initial acknowledgement that didn't have any sort of apology, or I missed something. I still stand by my minimization of the thing to which he reacted.
    - JoeSmithson 8y ago
      The entire subreddit was calling him a paedophile, this is actually mentioned in the post this thread is about, so I'm not sure how you could have missed it -https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admins_are_suffering_from_low_energy_have/dad5sf1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admi... It seems a bit like your feelings on this issue are stronger than your recollection.
  - JoeSmithson 8y ago
    It's a shame you are being downvoted because you are absolutely right. The myth that has been built up around this incident is ridiculous. It was essentially the same joke as those Chrome plugins that change "feminist" to "skeleton". /u/spez's main mistake was pushing it as an actual change to the comments database. If he'd forced a CSS change or whatever this overblown censorship/deception narrative would never have arisen.
  - arminiusreturns 8y ago
    and how did they libel him?

simonh 8y ago

I would care. Deleting a post is one thing and that's fine because it's clear what was done and why, but editing a post surreptitiously is a deliberate attempt to deceive and that's not acceptable.

zozbot123 8y ago
It was not an attempt to deceive, it was a way of visibly trolling back people who were dumb enough to libel the Reddit CEO on his own website, in extremely offensive ways. And he owned up to it very quickly after it happened.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  "Fuck /u/spez" is not libel, and is not even particularly offensive. And yes, he "owned up", but without apologizing. EDIT: So actually on https://www.reddit.com/comments/5frg1n https://www.reddit.com/comments/5frg1n he did actually say that he was sorry and he wouldn't do it again. That's interesting, because I have a very strong memory of that not being the case. Weird. Either there was an initial acknowledgement that didn't have any sort of apology, or I missed something. I still stand by my minimization of the thing to which he reacted.
  - JoeSmithson 8y ago
    The entire subreddit was calling him a paedophile, this is actually mentioned in the post this thread is about, so I'm not sure how you could have missed it -https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admins_are_suffering_from_low_energy_have/dad5sf1/ https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admi... It seems a bit like your feelings on this issue are stronger than your recollection.
- JoeSmithson 8y ago
  It's a shame you are being downvoted because you are absolutely right. The myth that has been built up around this incident is ridiculous. It was essentially the same joke as those Chrome plugins that change "feminist" to "skeleton". /u/spez's main mistake was pushing it as an actual change to the comments database. If he'd forced a CSS change or whatever this overblown censorship/deception narrative would never have arisen.
- arminiusreturns 8y ago
  and how did they libel him?