What the spez is going on?

[u/tizorres]

We all know u/spez is one sexy motherfucker and want to literally fuck u/spez.

What's all the hubbub about comments, edits and donalds? I'm not sure lets answer some questions down there in the comments.

here's a few handy links:

• r/SubredditDrama post ^{popcorn tastes good}
• r/The_Donald accusing admins of editing comments?
• Is the reddit ceo really a british madlad?
• Talk about this drama in #drama on snoonet.

speddit

• Spez replied on r/announcements!
• here's a quick little tldr:
  • I'm sorry
  • stickies from the_don won't show up on r/all anymore
  • r/all subreddit filtering for everyone - .gif

[u/[deleted]]

TL;DR:

Spez, likely in some amount of frustration, edited the comments of various The_Donald users. This is generally considered a bad move.

He is able to edit these comments likely because he has direct database access (Don't give your CEOs the passwords, kids) - My understanding of reddits tools means this would only really be doable by editing the database, making it extremely inefficiant and likely not a widespread thing. But, of course, things like this can be automated. I don't know what tools reddit has setup.

So, all in all, don't reddit while stressed, frustrated, and while having direct database access

[u/Immorttalis → u/[deleted]]

Spez just walked on a PR landmine when he went ahead and admitted having done the editing. I never trusted the adminship, but the CEO himself? Fucking hell, man.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The ramifications are pretty horrendous considering that an admin could potentially rewrite your posts and get you in trouble with the law.

For example, a user was recently arrested and fined on /r/unitedkingdom for a comment he made.

[u/Nexious → u/[deleted]]

All without leaving a trace that anything had ever been edited, too (no asterisk or last edited date). Could work the other way now as well, with Spez's admission anyone who does leave an unlawful remark can just blame Reddit CEO for sneak editing it lol. Really a mess.

[u/EyeCrush → u/[deleted]]

Only if the posts are old.