Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him

Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by whythrowaway on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:52AM (#13028920)

This pretty much happened on 4chan with GamerGate and /pol/. Banning GamerGate discussion immediately drove a mass exodus away from the site, and persistently fucking with /pol/ pushed out many more. But 4chan didn't die. The overwhelming majority of 4chan users voted with their clicks that they would tolerate politically motivated censorship, datamining, and adverserial moderation for faster boards and a fatter meme pipeline.

Reddit is exactly the same. Keep pulling shit like this, and it will drive quality users away out of principle. But Zombie Reddit will keep lurching forward, spewing poorly compressed Facebook screencaps and cat gifs.

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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:08AM (#13029452)

No it didn't. People were banned, but nobody edited message text. That's a huge difference.

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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by whythrowaway on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:03PM (#13031711)

Mods used to edit posts to "I AM A HUGE FAGGOT" etc. all of the time, and people just laughed. Point is you are overestimating the principles of the average 4channer. The sky has fallen on them repeatedly and they just don't care. I see no reason for the drooling Redditards to be any different.

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Re:Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were cri... by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:16PM (#13031796)

Huh. Oh well. I guess I need to brush up on my *chan history.

But I do maintain that that's a little different. That's essentially another instance of "disregard that, I suck cock," whereas spez actually altered people's stated opinions.

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