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Re:Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will... by saagarjha on Saturday February 09, 2019 @11:09AM (#19122961)
The issue was that the "prank" demonstrated the amount of power the Reddit admins had over the site, and created discussion as to whether it could be abused.
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Re:Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will... by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday February 09, 2019 @11:21AM (#19123065)
> and created discussion as to whether it could be abused.

But the conversation was kicked off by it being abused. The conclusion is already there.

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Re:Reddit's user uprising against China because Tencent will... by tehwebguy on Saturday February 09, 2019 @11:14AM (#19123020)
Of course someone has access to the actual database, no one needed a demonstration to understand that.

It was a prank, a troll on the trollingest people on the platform. That’s all.

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