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Ehh. Spez being human makes me inclined to trust him a little more. I’m neutral in politics, but editing those comments was objectively funny. Stupid, yes — ast
by sillysaurusx 4y ago
Ehh. Spez being human makes me inclined to trust him a little more. I’m neutral in politics, but editing those comments was objectively funny. Stupid, yes — astonishingly so. But it finally broke the illusion that users own their comments. That’s all it ever was: an illusion.
I don’t trust authority in general. But given the choice between spez and musk, I’d take spez any day. He’s at least not hopped up on drugs running around making crazy decisions.
And in terms of Reddit’s trustworthiness, it makes even less sense that editing comments would be of any consequence. If they detect a hacker and have the logs to prove it, they’d gain nothing by modifying the logs. And if they don’t, they gain nothing by fabricating the logs. So it seems reasonable to conclude that they just don’t have the logs.
Which is also reasonable. When I was hacking into systems at Matasano, it always made me uncomfortable just how undetectable I was. I wasn’t trying particularly hard to conceal myself, but a few well-chosen bash incantations and opening things in vi means all anyone sees is that a vi process is running.
- raspberry1337 4y agoI'd take the devil over musk! At least he is not hopped up on drugs and running around making crazy bad decisions
- nkozyra 4y agoGetting some Poe's Law vibes here.
- malfist 4y ago> Spez being human makes me inclined to trust him a little more You realize what you're saying right? You're saying someone's actions that breach trust makes you trust them more? Actions speak louder than words, if someone is showing you that you can't trust them, you don't decide that you're going to trust them more!
- 7speter 4y ago> But it finally broke the illusion that users own their comments. That’s all it ever was: an illusion. Makes me wonder about all what else about reddit is an “illusion”
- LarryMullins 4y agoSo basically "he lied to me, lying is a human behavior, so I trust him." Wew.
- qingdao99 4y agoHow hard is it to resist directly editing user data on your site? It's a pretty clear-cut case of abuse of power.
- doubled112 4y agoI've always strongly believed in "ignorance is bliss", and "if somebody wants me to know something they will tell me". The idea of snooping barely crosses my mind, let alone editing. Maybe it is different because Reddit comments are intended to be public.
- ineptech 4y agoObviously this is an unpopular opinion, but I think you're right about spez. Editing those comments in his AMA was dumb, but pretty obviously not malicious in the way that's being suggested here. I think a fair analogy would be if he gave a speech in a clown wig, and was then accused of having tried to disguise himself.
- cmh89 4y ago[flagged]
- albert-thomas 4y agoI've had a few interactions with him person to person, he seems like an alright guy. Then again, so did my last boss till i got to know him better