Re:Deleting the golang subreddit
by Buge on Friday November 25, 2016 @01:07PM
(#13038651)
He edited comments invisibly (not showing the usual edit mark), replacing the content with content against the rules of the subreddit. Thus when subreddit mods saw content that was against the rules, they banned the victims' accounts.
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Re:Deleting the golang subreddit
by personofpelican on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:15PM
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> replacing the content with content against the rules of the subreddit. Thus when subreddit mods saw content that was against the rules, they banned the victims' accounts
Got a source for this? From what I've read about what happened (not a whole lot), this seems like it's been passed through multiple rounds of the telephone game.
All solid information I've heard, and seen directly admitted, is that he edited mentions of /u/spez to mentions of /u/<random-moderator-of-the-subreddit> in a single thread in a single subreddit.
Yes, it's against the /r/the_donald rules to insult the /r/the_donald mods. Here's an /r/the_donald mod saying they banned some of the users by mistake after /u/spez edited their comment.
https://np.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admin...
... thank you, I have now changed my opinion of his actions from "morally dubious and dumb" to "morally dubious but absolute genius trolling"
Even more genius would have been to make himself a mod of the_donald, so every time they insulted him they broke the rule anyway...
Re:Deleting the golang subreddit
by whateveracct on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:49PM
(#13039351)
Insulting the mods is definitely against the rules of the_donald rofl. They take after their ~God Emperor~