And here he is boasting about knowing "all your dark secrets" at TNW - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lALKRayDLuk - meant in jest but shows incredibly poor judgement as a CEO

Anybody can go through the comment history of any redditor and know their dark secrets.

I don't mind Reddit fucking up. If they were competent they would have monetized the users a long time ago and it would be an broken mess that feeds daily spam to my inbox like every other social media platform. Reddit is too valuable to take seriously.

But they have your upvotes, saved links, private messages, and at least some idea of which outbound links you've clicked (you can turn some of that off).

It's like an ISP knowing a significant portion of your web browsing behaviour.

Of course they have that data - you have chosen to send it to their website. It would be physically impossible for that website to run if the data could not be read. Obviously, it's preferable if only 'the right people' can read it, but it's much safer to assume that isn't the case.

If you're concerned about the outbound link issue, disable javascript. A cursory look at the page source should convince you that that's the only way they can track outbound clicks.

The parent commenter was saying anybody can go through your comment history, and by extension admins have no special access to 'dark secrets'. I was pointing out that that's just not true.

> Anybody can go through the comment history of any redditor and know their dark secrets.

And since now we know that the CEO (at least?) has edited comments, users' comment history should be considered suspect..

Not if you always post with the realization that the one day you could be doxed, no matter how anonymous you think you are being. If I can dark secrets, I don't upvote, comment on them or include them in my comments on reddit.

Well, Obama joked about weaponizing the IRS and he did it through Lois Lerner and then Podesta BFF Peter J. Kadzik at the DoJ was personally responsible for clearing her of any charges.

I know someone in high school who joked about murdering someone and he's doing 25 to life for it now so I've learned to realize that someone joking about something is in no way proof that they wouldn't do it.

Also, in what way would he NOT be looking at dark secrets of people? Reddit makes money on selling packages of personally-identifiable information / and IPs so that you can pay them and be able to link reddit accounts to facebook accounts and google accounts and so on. People think they have some sort of anonymity on Reddit but if you pony up cash Reddit will strip anyone's away for you. And I'm sure he's looking at what he's willing to sell to others. If anyone posts something juicy but anonymous on Reddit, he's looking at their real name attached to their facebook account.

Mark Zuckerberg had a similar indiscretion as a young man.

Sure, but Zuck was what, 18? Spez could conceivably have a 18-year-old kid at his age.

Spez isn't emotionally adept to handle the abuse you get as a reddit CEO. Yishan wrote before that he was good at the technical side of the job but he's neither a strong businessman nor a community leader.