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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by chipperyman573 on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:48PM (#17261049)
HN mods can edit others' comments? Can someone else confirm this? I can't think of a valid use-case for this.
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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by Aaronn on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:10PM (#17261781)
You are failing to see the point. Any website could theoretically do anything they wanted to their own website.
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Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by cpmouter on Friday June 08, 2018 @07:55AM (#17264424)
Reddit does not allow mods or admins to modify comments from the website UI, but that didn't stop the admin from modifying comments by editing the database directly.
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