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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by mmastrac on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:59AM (#36294745)
I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for.

EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by mrgalaxy on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:02AM (#36294824)
Parent commenter shouldn't have said secretly. That was something he openly admitted to doing.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by AlecSchueler on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:04AM (#36294857)
I believe the issue the commenter above was taking was that just because someone commits, for lack of a better term, comment fraud, we shouldn't jump to suggesting he's also a paedophile.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by unshavedyak on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:19AM (#36295040)
Oh, i took that comment to suggest that the downtime could (mostly jokingly, i assume) have something to do with Spez dealing with a post he didn't like.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by bbarnett on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:22AM (#36295078)
That was something he openly admitted to doing.

Not true! He did not openly admit to doing this. Instead:

* he did it, and told no one at all

* was caught doing it, after people figured it out

* then, admitted he did it

This is absolutely not the same as "openly admitting it".

He did secretly edit comments.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by DANmode on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:42PM (#36296416)
It was secret/nontransparent until he admitted to it.

Still misleading, I agree.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by koprulusector on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:08AM (#36294913)
This is something I’ve seen repeated on Reddit often. Virtually any meta thread on Reddit about Reddit will have several comments containing these allegations. I can’t imagine how much time someone might need to spend to dig through all the noise to get to the truth, but it rings of something that might have a kernel of truth, given the prevalence and uniformity of such accusations.

In either case, it’s easily as speculative as the parent comment above, maybe slightly more so, since the parent came from Twitter.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by drak0n1c on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:46AM (#36295462)
>“Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing “spez” with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,” Huffman, who co-founded Reddit with Alexis Ohanian in 2005, wrote.

He did not admit to it until evidence was compiled and hit the front page, and let it appear for part of the week to participants and onlookers as if there was massive internal strife.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by tipsysquid on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:01AM (#36294804)
the accusation of editing comments I believe to be confirmed as fact, everything else I am not sure of.
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by MattGaiser on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:04AM (#36294854)
He admitted to doing it.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by danudey on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:17PM (#36297168)
"Openly admitting" has a very different connotation than "fessing up after you get caught".
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by croes on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:20PM (#36298432)
I think it's about

> was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008

not the comment editing

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