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.