Reddit CEO Spez Editing User Comments

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Today Spez the CEO of Reddit made a post to say that he was editing people comments. Media outlets all over are picking the story up now.

BBC News

Business Insider

The comment itself

This is wrong on so many levels it's insane. Needless to say, the trust and credibility of Reddit and it's admin has been destroyed by one man.

On top of that, here is a private chat with Reddit Staff and Spez talking about it. These people are running a business but the chat looks like something from 4chan. They even got a Nazi Emote. I don't expect that type of behaviour in a business.

Some guy in the UK got arrested for something "he" said on Reddit a while ago, clearly in the future anything else leading to someones arrest and charge resulting from Reddit post and any other Media shouldn't be used if we have people like this editing peoples comments at whim.
 
Reddit is **** the amount of times people I've spoken to who have been shadow banned and they never knew why. Shadow banned basically means you get banned, nobody will tell you why you've been banned, just nobody will see your posts and you can never come back.
 
Any platform for discussion that has unpopular opinion hidden by majority vote isn't a platform worth using anyway.
 
tom_e said:
What's the difference to mods being able to edit posts on here?
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World Leaders and celebrities often use Reddit. Obama and Trump have both used it in the past, how can we trust anything that's being said and what if some of their comments are ever edited.

Reddit is the 27th largest website in the world, it reaches people all around the world.

I'm not saying it happen or anything, but it's a dangerous precedent to set I think.

He violated his own Terms of Service as well, Impersonating another person.
 
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I don't understand reddit at all. I've had a look at it and it all seems to be in a random order. What on earth was wrong with vBulletin forums like this one? :confused:
 
I find the fact that people take reddit seriously and the outrage around this much weirder than what people are in an uproar about. The place is a stones throw away from 4chan but with more moderating.
 
scorza said:
I don't understand reddit at all. I've had a look at it and it all seems to be in a random order. What on earth was wrong with vBulletin forums like this one? :confused:
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It's so that posts like this

FurryLemon said:
Did he edit your cartoon porn to women instead of children?
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appear higher than posts like this

bayo000 said:
People use Reddit? Awful site.
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And no, clearly no one uses reddit....

It's actually an extremely useful website if you avoid the default front page.
 
For those who aren't aware 'pizzagate' originates from an official FBI document citing that paedophile rings used pizza references and particular styles of logos in their communications, a bunch of Redditors found similarities to what the FBI investigation claimed in some of the Podesta Wikileaks emails.
 
I must say, some Subreddits are actually great, so much information, especially some mobile games.
 
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