/r/The_Donald accuses the admins of editing T_D's comments, spez *himself* shows up in the thread and openly admits to it, gets downvoted hard instantly

[u/[deleted]]

thread

Spez shows up!

[u/Fryes]

That was..stupid.

[u/[deleted] → u/Fryes]

it's like the "ayy lmao" incident but... worse...

[u/DavidIckeyShuffle]

Holy shit. That is NOT how I imagined that unfolding. This one's gonna be a real shitshow.

[u/Denzien2 → u/DavidIckeyShuffle]

I have no idea what he was thinking, I mean I suppose they just pushed him over the edge, but still, way to make it worse.

[u/[deleted] → u/Denzien2]

Yeah, this sets a terrible precedent and will just fuel T_D's hate further.

[u/yishan → u/DavidIckeyShuffle]

Ayyy lmao

This week I can be thankful for not being the CEO of reddit.

[u/[deleted] → u/DavidIckeyShuffle]

Yeah, I can't stand the thought of Trump entering the white house, but I have to stand up to this. It's wrong and totally unprofessional. It's going to zap any trust people have with the organization.

[u/-powerfucker- → u/DavidIckeyShuffle]

Shit's getting way more real than I expected. I'm actually with the centipedes on this one, /u/spez fucked up bad in a big way. Is Reddit going to be the last great casualty of 2016?

[u/[deleted] → u/DavidIckeyShuffle]

I like how the edited comments don't have an asterisk like they do when a mere mortal edits his own. Makes it much easier for reddit admins to correct the record transparently.

[u/crumpis]

Is this the "ayy lmao" of our times?

[u/SoulEntropy → u/crumpis]

Definately copypasta potential from Spez there

[u/[deleted] → u/SoulEntropy]

Among everything else that will come of this, the most exciting is the dank new copypasta

[u/IAmAN00bie → u/crumpis]

This is "popcorn tastes good" part 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[u/[deleted]]

What are the ramifications to this?

Have admins only edited comments directed at them?

How widespread is this?

Will this trigger a migration to voat?

How overblown will this get?

Is /r/spezforprison going to be a thing? (Edit: oh, it already is)

STAY TUNED

[u/IAmAN00bie → u/[deleted]]

Will this trigger a migration to voat?

Please finally yes

[u/[deleted] → u/IAmAN00bie]

oh god that would make this site so much more tolerable

[u/Virginianus_sum → u/[deleted]]

Will this trigger a migration to voat?

We could only be so lucky.

[u/[deleted] → u/Virginianus_sum]

Compared to other communities who have migrated (fph, creepers, am I missing anybody?), they explicitely want to be heard, they crave attention, which is understandable because they're propa- political. So I doubt it. But we'll see.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

They tend to attempt a migration and die out. It's happened a few times, and they don't usually ever really maintain the same kind of activity.

[u/[deleted]]

i want to find it funny, but i really don't like the precedent.

delete the sub or set up a justified system for applying a different set of rules to them

the community team is right to be pissed at him

[u/sircarp → u/[deleted]]

The whole idea that someone has the power to just arbitrarily change what is written in a comment is pretty incredibly bad too.

[u/[deleted] → u/sircarp]

Yeah, this was serious abuse of admin powers, and I don't think he can correct this. This was a fuck up, and T_D's awful userbase isn't gonna be forgiving

[u/nx_2000 → u/[deleted]]

Reddit's entire userbase shouldn't be forgiving. It's a huge betrayal of trust for the entire website.

[u/crumpis → u/[deleted]]

We never had these problems when Pao was in charge.

[u/nate077]

You understand the gravity of the massive fireball you just put out there, correct? You have lost the trust of (at least) thousands of users of this website. You have literally, in that petty act, destroyed the credibility of Reddit. Any article that quotes a user post, uncredible. For all people know here, we are all now in danger of the admins throwing child porn into one of our histories, and endangering us.

This was a massive mistake. This is your career, and you put your emotions into making this massive mistake.

[u/[deleted] → u/nate077]

Oh yeah, for sure. It was funny (kinda), but he ruined his credibility by showing up. idk what he was thinking, but at least it's fresh popcorn

[u/nate077 → u/[deleted]]

But more importantly, he ruined THE CREDIBILITY OF REDDIT!

CAN YOU IMAGINE?

[u/[deleted] → u/nate077]

I forgot there was any left, between the Nazis, pedos, and Klansmen.

edited to remove a comma. Thanks Spez!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Don't forget /r/european!

[u/nykse → u/nate077]

Did you just copy and paste the comment from there

[u/Exarch_Of_Haumea]

We'll maybe stop defending Pedophiles? this is... Atrocious. You actually did this...? You realize this calls into question EVERYTHING reddit is about. Admins can ANONYMOUSLY AND UNTRACEABLY change comments. Comments that are referenced in the news. COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN USED TO TRY AN INFLUENCE ELECTIONS. COMMENTS THAT MANY PEOPLE USE AS A BELLWEATHER FOR THE ZEITGEST OF OUR ERA.

These guys really take reddit seriously, huh?

NO OTHER WEBSITE IN HISTORY HAS EVER QUIETLY EDITED SOMEONES COMMENTS WITHOUT THIER KNOWLEDGE.

I HAVE NEVER BEEN ON ANY OTHER FORUM WITH ACTIVE ADMINS

For real. End your fucking useless life, should have been you instead of Aaron

You slightly changed a comment! This is worthy of death!

This is some '1984' bullshit, and it's terrifying.

In 1984 they changed history so that they could control the people better, on reddit they change a comment because the admin is bored.

Super similar.

[u/[deleted] → u/Exarch_Of_Haumea]

Ah, accusing the admins of being LITERALLY 1984. A time honored T_Der tradition.

[u/mrpenguinx → u/Exarch_Of_Haumea]

I HAVE NEVER BEEN ON ANY OTHER FORUM WITH ACTIVE ADMINS

As someone who used to moderate for a large-ish gaming forum, this shit is funny to me.

This has been a very common thing for a very long time and is used a lot more regularly then a lot of people here seem to think.

I'm honestly surprised not that many people are aware of this, its not a secret or anything...

[u/KrimzonK → u/Exarch_Of_Haumea]

I mean, he literally trolled edited a malicious comment aimed at him personally, it was hilarious and he even admits to doing so.

He has the power to fuck with so many of them and they'd have no recourse if he never admits it... instead he use it to troll and never lied.

Spez is literally a redditor.

[u/YummyMeatballs → u/Exarch_Of_Haumea]

NO OTHER WEBSITE IN HISTORY HAS EVER QUIETLY EDITED SOMEONES COMMENTS WITHOUT THIER KNOWLEDGE.

...but, how does he know?

[u/decencybedamned → u/Exarch_Of_Haumea]

COMMENTS THAT MANY PEOPLE USE AS A BELLWEATHER FOR THE ZEITGEST OF OUR ERA

Oh that's great. I want that on a mug or something.

[u/[deleted]]

I fucking love /u/spez right now. That shit is hilarious.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Sure, it might set a terrible precedent for the site and give salty T_Ders more ammo, but shit, it's hilarious too

[u/FedRishFlueBish]

What if spez's confession was edited in by another admin?

[u/iamonlyoneman → u/FedRishFlueBish]

The admin that did the actual editing in the first place. Smart. Now nobody will believe it when spez comes out and protests his innocence!

[u/NicolasZN]

When I started to read u/spez's post, I read it sarcastically. Like "Yes, I, the CEO of reddit, edited users posts to not have my name and include the mods of r/the_donald . Right. Obviously." It was so ridiculous there was no way that actually happened.

BUT THEN IT WAS TRUE.

Popcorn still tastes good on reddit, I see.

[u/Fighterpilot108 → u/NicolasZN]

Wait, can I get a link? I can't seem to find it.

Edit: I got it guys, it seems to be a problem with Alien Blue.

[u/TyrionBananaster]

Comment is at -

was gilded 9 times

what

EDIT: Now down to -2801 points and 23 gold.

EDIT 2: -544 points, 61 gold

[u/[deleted] → u/TyrionBananaster]

He may be gilding himself.

[u/superiority → u/TyrionBananaster]

My guess is that the people who gilded the comment are different from the people who downvoted the comment.

[u/theothersophie]

hooooly shit

he admitted it

the CEO just admitted to editing user comments??? What is this madness?

[u/Eji1700 → u/theothersophie]

From a PR perspective, after fucking up this badly he has to admit it. To hide it, especially if there's proof out there, is going to make things worse and worse.

Granted from a PR perspective doing this in the first place is fucking terrible for a list of reasons too long to mention. Everyone's human but secretly editing comments to get back at people is so so bad. Mostly because of the secret part.

If he pinned a "fuck you r/The_Donald" topic to the front of the page in a drunken rage detailing how he'd gone and done it the moment after he did it, at least it'd only look petty, but this draws attention to EXACTLY the kind of actions that the whole CTR thing started.

[u/Fletch71011 → u/theothersophie]

Even though it is really fucking funny, from a professional standpoint, this was an incredibly stupid act. This is going to fuel admin conspiracy theories for years now and just wait til some crazy reactionary news outlets pick it up.

Not a smart move. Honestly Spez has had some huge missteps here and I had really high hopes for him. Funny that Pao probably ended up being the most professional of the Reddit CEOs.

[u/Obskulum → u/theothersophie]

Uh oh. I'm no fan of T_D at all but editing comments is pretty shady. That's not good.

[u/Manafort → u/theothersophie]

/u/spez literally Correcting The Record.

[u/SubduedSubs → u/theothersophie]

THIS IS KANGAROO COURT REEEEEEEE

[u/EggCouncilCreeper]

YEAH FUCK YOU /u/AutoModerator

This wins the edit award

[u/Cyberhwk → u/EggCouncilCreeper]

Probably the only comment I can agree with. The automod has ruined entire subs.

[u/Metatron58]

And then everyone lost their fucking mind.

[u/ZaheerUchiha → u/Metatron58]

Just another day on reddit.

[u/notathrowaway75]

It’s been a long week here

It's fucking WEDNESDAY

LOW ENERGY

OK that was funny.

[u/nexico → u/notathrowaway75]

notmyadmin

[u/[deleted] → u/notathrowaway75]

That actually made me snort water out of my nose. On a political level, I deeply disagree with the_Donald but they do post some FUNNY shit sometimes.

[u/VeganBigMac → u/notathrowaway75]

Honestly the funniest part of the drama for me.

[u/NoApologyTour → u/notathrowaway75]

I literally laughed out loud at that comment... and then had to awkwardly explain the whole situation to my wife.

[u/BZNESS]

I absolutely love how the CEO of the website is tagged there as "two knees bent"

[u/A_Wild_Blue_Card → u/BZNESS]

This is the site that got a real anti-Trump PAC to call themselves cucks

Republicans to cry about being called Cuckservatives on FOX News

/u/Spez messed up.

[u/A-GPS]

And just like that, he has made both himself/the site look bad, AND unified the community on /r/the_donald / whatever subs against him.

GJ Spez. You did what 8 mod shifts and a presidential election could not.

[u/SavageToasters]

Like... holy shit. /u/spez came into my room to bring me a plate of edited posts and I literally screamed at him and hit the plate of posts right out of his hand. He started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on him. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to /u/spez but I'm literally in shock from what happened tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck did he edit those posts? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a reddit to believe in. I want/u/spez to be CEO and fix this broken website. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was a good CEO???? This is so fucked.

[u/Immo406 → u/SavageToasters]

Im literally shaking right now, I just dont know what

[u/Ubern00dle → u/SavageToasters]

That pasta would go great with my tendies.

[u/Lux_Stella]

There seems to be two issues here:

a) That admins have the power to do this

and

b) That they actually did it this time

To the first, well, no shit. Of course the admins have the ability to change any content you input into their servers. That's kinda how websites work.

The second has somewhat of a stronger point, either set a precedent where jokey comment edits are blatantly obvious enough so that people are not paranoid of it, or don't do it.

[u/Bmitchem → u/Lux_Stella]

Of course the admins have this capability, the comments are literally just sitting on their DB, why wouldn't they be able to edit them?

[u/ZaheerUchiha]

What the hell is going on?

[u/[deleted] → u/ZaheerUchiha]

Spez maliciously edited people's comments because he was stressed out.

So I guess we can't say fuck /u/spez anymore.

[u/Endiamon]

Reddit admins are some of the most bafflingly incompetent people that I have ever seen.

[u/[deleted] → u/Endiamon]

For a site of this size and popularity, they ARE weirdly incompetent now that you mention it. It's a shame too as their engineering team seems to have taken great strides forward in the last couple of years.

[u/yoodenvranx → u/Endiamon]

Reddit, Niantic and Hello Games might as well be the same company.

[u/[deleted] → u/Endiamon]

And that's why I stay. I've never seen a man put his foot both in his mouth and up his own ass at the same time until reddit.

And it's goddamn beautiful. It's as if Michael Bay directed a parody of himself directing a trainwreck.

[u/SaucyWiggles]

Realistically speaking, is this a thing he could be fired for?

edit: I guess I should have just asked how bad it was. I figured it was bad but it seems really bad.

[u/[deleted] → u/SaucyWiggles]

It shows a lack of temperament and leadership. Destroying trust that took years to build up in an instant must have repercussion. The board might decide he is not a good fit to lead the company.

[u/E-rockComment → u/SaucyWiggles]

Probably, even if it was petty and juvenile that's an insane abuse of power. He's the fucking CEO, he should be above this. Hilarious situation though, I don't know what he expected to happen. This is the same subreddit that went through thousands of leaky emails for months just to find the* few good ones. Whatever you may think of /r/the_Donald they are master sleuths.

[u/_OCCUPY_MARS_]

Wow...

The CEO of one of the biggest sites on the Internet actually got triggered by trolls.

Then proceeded to undermine the trust of every single user.

Hope everyone is ready for 'Pao-pocalypse Part 2: The Memers Strike Back'

[u/zoolian → u/_OCCUPY_MARS_]

4chan got m00t all riled up and he eventually sold the site.

The internet just ain't what it used to be, kiddos.

[u/AlwaysBananas]

/u/spez just legitimized TD's constant crying of conspiracy theories. The CEO of a massively popular, liberal leaning online community just came into their community to manipulate, not moderate, their content. It's a pretty fucking ridiculous action for someone in his position. People are people, I'm sure he knows how large of a fuck up this was by now (his own coworkers are probably tearing into him hard right now), and he's a human being, but TD isn't exactly known for their moderate response to events. The reality is that he will be our next president - maybe, just maybe we should stop feeding the beast so much delicious content.

[u/justicelife → u/AlwaysBananas]

He did say "Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won’t do this again." but I simply can't see something this massive just fading away without repercussions.

It's basically ill-legitimizes everything he's ever done.

[u/Garethp]

This is good for drama!

Sure, it's bad. He shouldn't have done it. But honestly I'm looking forward to the onslaught of people acting as though reddit is the most serious bastion of democracy, and that this is the first step in 2+2=5.

It's hilarious. It's mismanagement. It's drama for the ages. It's mod abuse. It's nothing less than what I would expect from an online forum.

Because that's all it is. Reddit is one of those overgrown invisionfree or phpBB forums from back in the day. It's just that, but bigger, and people talk as if reddit is the only communication tool in the world, and anything reddit does directly harms the idea of democracy itself.

All in all, bad move spez. But fucking hilarious. Good job

[u/g0_west → u/Garethp]

Yeah, that comment talking about "unfit for leadership"? He's not a fucking leader lol, he's a website administrator.

Also "Super unprofessional. Especially on the Eve of Thanksgiving."

Wtf does Thanksgiving have to do with anything?

[u/Leftovertaters → u/Garethp]

First Reddit falls, then American democracy. T_d are gonna circle jerk themselves into a coma with this.

[u/Spiritofchokedout → u/Garethp]

I'm relieved that others have a sense of perspective

[u/oriaxxx → u/Garethp]

This is good for drama!

p much, right?! I wonder how soon til this post has more comments than the pizzagate post 🤔 😂

[u/cigr → u/Garethp]

I love the people acting like he framed somebody for murder. He didn't change anything serious, just some bullshit posts.

Sadly all the crazy pizza fucks are going to just add this into their fucked up conspiracy.

[u/kaylatastikk]

So what are we calling this one, boys? Can we top fappening? Spezageddon doesn't flow well, spezgate/ghazi would be too on the nose I feel like.

I'll just be over here snacking- 🍿🍕🍝

[u/baltimorecity → u/kaylatastikk]

Spezgiving?

[u/yoodenvranx → u/kaylatastikk]

fappening

The Editing?

[u/[deleted]]

This is a great way to generate publicity for /r/The_Donald tbh. The fact that an admin has done this will make the sub grow even more.

[u/freewheelinCW]

Remember not to fill up too much popcorn guys or you won't have an appetite for turkey!

[u/JakeofNewYork]

The drama is coming from inside the sub

[u/TF_dia]

Damn It, they may are good at coding, but they REALLY need somebody competent in PR or a good Community Manager, this incident and former ones shows their actions tend to backfire HARD.

[u/scroopy_nooperz → u/TF_dia]

are good at coding

That's why every time they change an algorithm it get's worse, right?

[u/Lunar_Havoc → u/TF_dia]

PR or community manager isn't going to stop the CEO

[u/Adinida]

You have ... destroyed the credibility of Reddit.

Oh, yes... That is what caused Reddit to have no credibility.

[u/zuffdaddy → u/Adinida]

WE DID IT REDDIT!!!

[u/annarchy8]

Why the fuck would anyone ever do that or admit doing it??!?!?!

[u/[deleted]]

Well boys, looks like this one is going to the front page!

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. This is some crazy bullshit on spez's part right here. What the fuck was he thinking?

It's been a long week

And that somehow partially justifies it? Really? Fucking really?

[u/Hydrium]

And now Yahoo has picked up on the story.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ceo-reddit-confessed-modifying-posts-022041192.html

/u/Spez dun goofed. RIP Reddits credibility.

Also FUCK /u/SPEZ

[u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix → u/Hydrium]

The real news story here is that Yahoo is still viable.

[u/ColeYote → u/Hydrium]

(Implying Reddit had any credibility to begin with)

[u/Roflkopt3r]

To me this just means that Reddit is still just an online forum.

I don't see what people see in it that makes it so holy and forces it to adhere to strict regulations. There are forums out there that will ban users for being shitheads no matter the rules. You already know that mods do the same. What forces Reddit to be rule-literalist and the admins to be strictly neutral officials?

Other forums would just ban every one of those guys who wrote the insults to begin with.

[u/DHSean]

Didn't believe the donald for a second. Why would an admin give a shit.

Then he admits it

Fucking hell man.... Like he's unleashed a tidal wave of conspiracies and shit to come.

[u/[deleted]]

Surprised to see this hasn't made it here yet:

Leaked chat logs with spez and a bunch of top mods conspiring to ban the_donald

And some real good drama on modclub where the leaker is exposed

[u/mrpopenfresh]

Uh oh. Spez fucked up.

[u/doublecatTGU]

/u/spez is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life

[u/PM_ME_UR_OBSIDIAN]

Anybody who a) doesn't work at Reddit and b) thinks this is anything but hilarious is taking things waaay too seriously.

[u/fuzeebear]

Eh, I can get behind the sentiment here. I'd rather have a comment of mine be deleted by an an admin than surreptitiously edited by an admin.

[u/FarmTaco]

Wow this is ridiculous, ofcourse they have the power to edit a post but wtf? this is some geo cities bullshit

[u/ubern00by]

Holy shit how stupid can someone be, this guy gave all his cards away and proved that Reddit can edit comments and fake pretty much everything in just an instant. Every conspiracy theory about reddit being full of shilled money comments just got a 1000 times more grounded.

[u/magi093 → u/ubern00by]

They always had the power, t_d just broke spez

[u/thechickenbane]

If you think spez revising history ruins the credibility of Reddit, I have bad news for you. Anyone with root / admin access of this website has always had this ability.

By the way, less you think Reddit is some impenetrable fortress of electronic communication, I hope you've been paying attention to the news. Organizations everyone would agree should have much larger security budgets then Reddit have been compromised. Target. Home Depot. Neiman Marcus. Microsoft. The IRS. No matter what subreddit, no matter who is the CEO, i implore you to not consider Reddit - or any website - completely reliable.

Adobe is releasing Photoshop for audio. The technology exists right now for any words to be put in the speech of any person. We are entering a wild period where frankly any news can possibly be fault. The hub bub about fake news was killed long ago by Fox.

I am not contesting any Reddit comments. I do not contest the results of the Presidential election (though an interesting thought experiment - if not 2M votes, how many votes would it take to contest?). But the Republicans have truly made the monkey paw bargain. If anything, we truly live in interesting times.

I have tried to ignore The Donald for years. But I was also hooked to the first seasons of The Apprentice. I understand the appeal. And the reality show host has become the most powerful man in the world. I'm done ignoring. I'm grabbing the popcorn now.

[u/Arigol]

u/spez! Popcorn tastes good!

That is the funniest and stupidest drama I've ever seen on reddit. So it turns out the the admins really do manipulate posts, but they just use it to make childishly idiotic jokes.

Petition to make u/spez post to r/RoastMe and r/KarmaCourt so we can judge.

EDIT: KarmaCourt.

[u/minorgrey]

I'm sorry but this is fucking hilarious. Let the butter flow.

[u/redwolfy70 → u/minorgrey]

Lightly Salted butter to be exact.

[u/milkhotdog]

This Spez guy really stumped himself with that move.

[u/Mystic8ball]

I've seen a lot of people go "haha he's fucking with The_Donald users it's okay!" but this is a pretty serious breech of trust for just about everyone who uses this website. I get that he was stressed from the pizzagate fallout but this was the absolute worst way he could have handled the situation.

Like seriously, the fuck was he thinking? I can see him being forced to step down because of this, and reddit will probably have to make some sort of public admin action log just to be transparent and show that they're not pulling this shit anymore.

Now whenever a post is removed for doxxing or posting illegal content there's going to be a large group of people questioning whether or not the admins edited the post to frame them, because now it's confirmed that it's actually possible for an admin to do that. Good job spez you pretty much fucked yourself and this entire website over.

[u/[deleted] → u/Mystic8ball]

... , and reddit will probably have to make some sort of public admin action log just to be transparent and show that they're not pulling this shit anymore.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

They'll never, ever do this

[u/ColeYote]

Hey, remember that report a couple months ago that basically said the admins are constantly drunk on the job? I think we have some more evidence.

[u/internerd91]

This is fucking moronic. Seriously, What the fuck was he thinking? This sets a really bad precedents and it's just going to justify their conspiracies and paranoia.

[u/PM_ME_YER_MUDFLAPS]

I can actually say that I find this situation amusing. The site itself can't lose credibility because it never really had credibility. So no I can't get worked up about u/spez editing those comments. Childish yes and only good for single giggle, but other than that who cares.

[u/_PresidentTrump]

The_donald may end Spez career as well. Its feeling a lot like the last few months of the Ellen Pao administration

[u/[deleted] → u/_PresidentTrump]

And yet she is the one smelling like roses out of this. Why was there so much hate against her anyway?

[u/madmax_410]

this is fucking hilarious, and the droves of people who never commented in SRD before who are coming here to whine about this is making it even funnier.

this reeks of yishan-style shaningans and I can't wait for more.

[u/Dragonsandman → u/madmax_410]

This has the potential to set off a dramawave of fatpeoplehate-banning proportions. Reddit is gonna become a right mess over the next few days.

[u/Inkompetentia]

Spez' masterplan

1. Get tired of being called every name under the sun.

2. Actually go out and prove them somewhat right "cause it feels good"

3. ???

4. T_D become rational, decent human beings

[u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix]

The Verge has picked up the story

[u/bong_ripz_4_jesus]

u/spez let his emotions get the best of him.

[u/cdstephens]

This is the dumbest shit, I love it. The one response that'll piss everyone off, perfect!!

[u/TheTrain]

Too far.

[u/asupify]

Out of all the shitstorms that have gone down on Reddit over the years, an admin temporarily trolling an obnoxious subreddit is pretty minor.

[u/AsterJ]

I admit it was a little funny but it sets a dangerous precedent and comes off as childish.

[u/NsRhea]

IMO this is the biggest bullshit this website could ever pull.

The comments also don't even show they've been modified. Imagine if he had gone to Obama's AMA and said he was gonna bomb China or whatever?

You literally cannot trust a single source on this website anymore.

[u/erythro]

Things I don't understand

1. Why it's a shock he can edit the database. Of course he can.

2. Why this is viewed as a betrayal of trust. He just changed some user names for a couple hours as an obvious troll. It's not like there's any evidence there are widespread or permanent changes, he's clearly just messing with them. It would be like saying the BBC "lost all credibility" or "betrayed trust" when it did the April fools news story about spaghetti growing on trees.

Basically, what's all the fuss about? The Donald is angry, sure, but where's the change there?

[u/dorfcally]

Is SRD actually on /r/the_donald's side this time?

[u/derek_32999]

The big question is how does u/spez feel being banned from r/the_donald like all the rest of us

[u/poastertoaster]

So ... is he fired over this or nah?

[u/Murrabbit]

You know what former reddit CEO wouldn't have edited highly critical user comments? Elen Pao. Mmhm, think on that for a while. She sure hasn't edited any comments on imzy, her new gig. Juuuuuust sayin', reddit.

[u/bigbowlowrong]

Wow, who knew getting constantly called a pedophile for no reason might make someone have a lapse in judgement?

After /r/pizzagate was righteously banned, I decided to head on over to /r/the_donald to see their reaction. I was surprised - not that much, but a little - that the sticky they had made on it was filled top to bottom with aggressively deranged rants accusing the the Reddit admin team generally and spez specifically of being pedophiles. The mods, of course, did nothing.

Now that cesspit is whining about being oppressed (which they spend a lot of time doing despite being brave anti-PC Warriors or whatever). Excuse me for not buying the notion that /r/the_donald is the victim here. They are targeting specific users on Reddit (that happen to be admins) and spreading baseless, disgusting lies about them to a massive audience. What spez did was stupid, but /r/the_donald is toxic and needs to be banned.

[u/proper_lofi]

dump the the_donald, reddit.
you shouldve done it after the election.

[u/ACTUALLY_A_WHITE_GUY]

lol Spez should have just kept the joke and told them not to be so whiny or he shouldn't have done it at all.

You cant claim "it's a joke" when you also concede you did wrong to a hysterical community like that.

its funny that pizzagate was so dumb it actually became such a thorn in the side of the admins.

[u/[deleted]]

I mean, this DOES set a horrible precedent, but at the same time they're shooting out accusations of pedophilia at the dude. They should just ban the sub already.

[u/Son0fSun]

Covered in the media now

[u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix]

Business Insider has picked up the story

[u/[deleted]]

This is the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen.

[u/RustInHellThatcher]

I hope this finally causes that exodus to voat that they're always threatening.

It wont but it's nice to dream.

[u/[deleted]]

Seriously, fuck r/the_donald. I could give a rat's ass what happens to and on that vomit-inducing pile of manure.

[u/[deleted]]

Did /r/the_donald just conquer reddit?

FUCK

[u/[deleted]]

Regardless of political opinion, this is a yuuuge deal. This whole situation shows that admins can and DO go back and edit comments without a trace.

Let's say someone accuses you of releasing personal information on reddit, a violation of the TOS.

"I've never done that!" you think. But when you go back into your comment history, sure enough, one of your comments has personal information on it.

What is now impossible to tell is if you really did release that personal information, or did an admin go change your comment so they can "justly" ban you.

Not that I necessarily think this is the case, but this could have easily happened with the shutting down of r/pizzagate. There. I said it. We will never know now, but now there will always be a small question mark behind every post you make.

NOTE: I am screenshotting my comment and this thread, along with saving archives of this thread to protect myself and those who comment here.

Has reddit really come to this?

[u/[deleted]]

What a moron. He needs to resign.

[u/[deleted]]

WERE YOU THERE FOR THE REDDIT IMPLOSION OF 2016?

[u/spaznuski]

For those who say no big deal, When Congress men are quoting reddit comments to an FBI director they are considered serious.

[u/sadf01]

Hopefully this ends up with the_donald being deleted somehow.

[u/American_Greed]

lol everyone thinking this website is a free speech platform, and not another social media sell-user-data marketing scam.

[u/[deleted]]

I can see why everyone sees this as bad but I think it's hilarious and is probably the sort of stupid thing I'd do if I were CEO. /u/spez and I should be friends.

[u/SWinxy]

First of all, the admins control the website. They always have. No website has higher power than the admins of it. If you mess with the admins, don't expect not to be messed with. You hold no power equivalent to them.
That said, of course the reddit admins will come after you for calling them offensive words. Was he messing with those comments? Yes. Can he edit anything else on the website? Yes. Should we be concerned? No. Just because you have a power, doesn't mean you will abuse it. Spez abused his power when editing those comments; ones that were getting under his skin. That doesn't mean that he edits other comments.
But r/TD had to make a shitstorm about it. They need to. They claim that the media is biased and against them. They say everything is biased. This is all for attention. This is how Donald Trump got so big.
Spez apologized. He knows what he did wasn't right. Other admins know this wasn't right. He likely hasn't done such a thing before, and he will definitely not do it again. If you don't like the actions of the admins, well, leave. Don't make them want to ban you. I'd like to hear what you'd have to say about this.

[u/Kipferlfan]

While I do agree that it's fucked that the Admins can edit comments, anyone who thought they couldn't is delusional.

[u/loginlogan]

Spez shouldn't have done what he did. That's the bottom line.

But the_donald is one of the worst things Reddit has spawned. I don't blame spez for doing that. They're a bunch of lunatics on that sub.

[u/[deleted]]

I've had enough of this stupid fucking site and what it has become. I'm out. Feel free to join me.

u/*******

Redditor for 4 years

168 post karma

697 comment karma

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[u/[deleted]]

I'm currently witnessing reddit history. feelsgoodman.jpg

[u/conspiracy_thug]

How to Suck Dicks AND Make Your Entire Userbase Hate You, the new book by /u/spez, out now on hardcover.

[u/westc2]

Who really cares? It's their website and they can do whatever the fuck they want to comments. It's also free to all users.

[u/AP3Brain]

Am I one of the few people that don't really give a shit?

I mean most could assume an admin editing a comment was possible. It is just surprising he would admit it....

[u/[deleted]]

That's a horrendous ethics violation by a CEO, seriously this raises too many other questions about the integrity of /u/spez HOT DAMN!

SPEZGATE

[u/sintralin]

This is amazing

fuck /u/spez

[u/ColombianHugLord]

I don't think /r/the_donald should stand for this. They should leave reddit! Yes, that's it. Everyone on the_donald just pack up and move on over to voat. You can't trust reddit anymore. Just leave. You know, for your own good.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not even mad. I'm laughing my ass off watching /r/conspiracy go to Defcon 1. Holy fuck they're going insane.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm becoming the conspiracy nut that I used to make fun of. And I'm not trying to be funny. Between /r/The_Donald convincing me that Trump will win and how corrupt the media is, and now this, I feel like I should be working at info wars .

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

So now that I'm out of popcorn:

/u/spez fucked up hard. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying every second of this, but this was immature beyond belief especially for a CEO.

[u/[deleted]]

Big picture:

This is way bigger that /r/the_donald

The admins basically admitted to fucking with people's comments. People have been sent to jail for posting things on Reddit before like threats

[u/eskjcSFW]

The admins should just delete t_d

[u/FaFaFoley]

Holy shit, they're pissed that he basically played a joke on them?

Isn't this the group that generally likes to whine about how everyone is so thin-skinned, PC and triggered these days? Whoa, you mean that's all a bunch of empty rhetoric? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine how much of a loser you have to be to give a shit about this.

[u/[deleted]]

Please can this be the thing that gets them to leave for Voat?

[u/wightjilt]

I would love to insult The_Dolan for this, but this is actually just a pretty big breach and it really just gives these dipshits more room to feel like victims.

[u/deathtotheemperor]

I am literally loling at all the people bleating about "Reddit's lost credibility". Go the fuck outside you fucking weirdos.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I hate that T_D seems to have gotten wind of this thread. I think they're flooding with the expectation that most of us are supporters. yikes.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I'm assuming normal /u/ summon rules still apply and we can't tag spez as a joke.

[u/Leftovertaters → u/[deleted]]

You have been made moderator of r/Pyongang

[u/StillRadioactive → u/[deleted]]

I decided to actually go to /r/Pyongyang and now I have no idea if it's satire or not.

[u/the_shootist → u/[deleted]]

Don't we have the best shitposters, folks?

[u/zanotam → u/[deleted]]

Gonna agree with the other person.... that is a truly amazing GIF and I'm sad I haven't seen it before so I can only now just bookmark it and start using it to shitpost.

[u/-obliviouscommenter- → u/[deleted]]

This has been the strangest year of my life.

[u/Porkton → u/[deleted]]

something something meme magic something something