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This would be a weirdly clumsy approach for Reddit to take. I don't know whether they're too ethical to do something like this, but surely they're too competent
by retsibsi 3y ago
This would be a weirdly clumsy approach for Reddit to take. I don't know whether they're too ethical to do something like this, but surely they're too competent to do it in such a silly way. Simplest explanation is someone else did it, perhaps to frame Reddit or perhaps for a more boring spambot-related reason.
- dvngnt_ 3y agothe CEO admitted to editing a user's comment in a fit of rage
- andrewinardeer 3y ago> in a drunken fit of rage.
- geysersam 3y agoWhy would the CEO even have that ability? Just comes across as unhygienic.
- fsckboy 3y agoit was a loooong time ago when the CEO was one of the original coders
- clydethefrog 3y agoIt was in 2016. Pretty sure he wasn't coding anymore. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-edit-comments https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
- retsibsi 3y agoThat was an impulsive act (in reaction to people who had been abusing him personally), with no strategy behind it and serving no particular goal. If something like that is done at all, it's not very surprising that it's done in a clumsy way. Here the allegation is that Reddit is systematically astroturfing itself with the goal of shaping user opinion. But they're choosing to do it in a way that is very easy to detect (the comments are 100% identical, and as a bonus they all come from usernames that are recognisably automatically generated) and apparently completely ineffective (the comments mostly have -1 points, with a maximum of 1). And the only evidence is something that could have been easily done by absolutely anyone.