I'll hazard a 'yes' here, based on the comments (see top comment, below). In the interest of fairness, admins can see the private links, so Pao may have just posted to the wrong Reddit, rather than doing something ridiculous (though it would look that way to anyone not familiar with admin powers).

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kciuq1 1758 points 3 hours ago Maybe the first priority is to learn how reddit works.

He should

Don't you mean, he should be fired, because he is the wrong person for the product, because he literally does not know how to use the site?

If he still can't use the product six months from now and the users are revolting, then yes he should be fired

He made the product! He can't use the product ten years later!

He hasn't used the product in nine years. Wouldn't you say it's possible they've changed the formatting in those nine years?

This is totally out of line, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sorry! It seemed like such a brazen attempt to trick readers and I responded without much grace. Can't edit it out of my post at this time.