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>This comment by spez is also interesting For what its worth, Spez was caught abusing his admin access to secretly edit comments in the past, including other p

by swebs 6y ago

>This comment by spez is also interesting For what its worth, Spez was caught abusing his admin access to secretly edit comments in the past, including other people's comments who he disagreed with politically. I would doubt any comment posted on reddit where Spez has stake in, as he might have just changed the story sometime down the line.

ChrisKnott 6y ago
This is a very misleading characterization of what happened. It was not secret, it was on one occasion, and it was to make a light-hearted joke at the expense of /r/The_Donald users who were calling him a paedophile. It was a massive error of judgement, but you have tried to make out it was some kind of on-going political subterfuge.
- swebs 6y ago
  But that may have well just been the first incident where he was caught red handed. Who knows how many other incidents he got away with? I have no faith in the integrity of reddit administration, especially Spez. The fact that he wasn't fired immediately means reddit staff does not take these issues seriously.
  - ChrisKnott 6y ago
    Again, you say "caught red handed" like it was something he was doing secretly. What he did was change every instance of "fuck /u/spez" to "fuck the /r/the_donald mods". He did this because he lost patience in the face of mass online harassment. He immediately apologized. I just wanted to make clear to anybody passing by - who wants to know what actually happened - that the narrative you are pushing is not supported by evidence. Of course, if you are prepared to "who knows" something without evidence, then in the world of digital information you can suppose practically anything.
    - swebs 6y ago
      Here's the full story for anyone who is curious. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/reddit-edit-post https://www.wired.co.uk/article/reddit-edit-post I don't know what you mean by "the narrative you are pushing". The only narrative is that the CEO of reddit did something that seriously caused me to lose faith in the site and went completely unpunished. You may feel that the event was inconsequential, but not everyone feels the same.
dang 6y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678138.

by swebs 6y ago

ChrisKnott 6y ago

This is a very misleading characterization of what happened. It was not secret, it was on one occasion, and it was to make a light-hearted joke at the expense of /r/The_Donald users who were calling him a paedophile. It was a massive error of judgement, but you have tried to make out it was some kind of on-going political subterfuge.

swebs 6y ago
But that may have well just been the first incident where he was caught red handed. Who knows how many other incidents he got away with? I have no faith in the integrity of reddit administration, especially Spez. The fact that he wasn't fired immediately means reddit staff does not take these issues seriously.
- ChrisKnott 6y ago
  Again, you say "caught red handed" like it was something he was doing secretly. What he did was change every instance of "fuck /u/spez" to "fuck the /r/the_donald mods". He did this because he lost patience in the face of mass online harassment. He immediately apologized. I just wanted to make clear to anybody passing by - who wants to know what actually happened - that the narrative you are pushing is not supported by evidence. Of course, if you are prepared to "who knows" something without evidence, then in the world of digital information you can suppose practically anything.
  - swebs 6y ago
    Here's the full story for anyone who is curious. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/reddit-edit-post https://www.wired.co.uk/article/reddit-edit-post I don't know what you mean by "the narrative you are pushing". The only narrative is that the CEO of reddit did something that seriously caused me to lose faith in the site and went completely unpunished. You may feel that the event was inconsequential, but not everyone feels the same.

dang 6y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24678138.