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I'm quite surprised that he's still the Reddit CEO after he admittedly edited comments on production database. Sometimes I feel the current situation is exactl
by raincole 3y ago
I'm quite surprised that he's still the Reddit CEO after he admittedly edited comments on production database.
Sometimes I feel the current situation is exactly what we (reddit users) deserve. Like, we chose to continue using this website even when we knew the leadership is piece of shit. What else did we expect?
- zirgs 3y agoDoesn't comment editing basically destroy any protections that reddit has regarding user generated content?
- raincole 3y agoIt should have. Unfortunately things, as a super general term, don't work properly.
- teraflop 3y agoNot really. To the extent that Reddit exercises editorial control over some particular content, it could theoretically become liable for that content. But just editing one comment in a database doesn't automatically make them liable for everything that everyone else does.
- neuronic 3y agoIt introduces a precedent for content manipulation for personal gain that cannot really be prevented though. Who says that Steve Huffman won't alter content of any entity posting on reddit? Politicians can do AMAs and post responses, then Huffman comes along to sneak-edit one or two words to make them look bad without any external user being able to prove manipulation - it could just be a user edit after all.