I don't get why this is such a massive deal.
Kids were trolling, he trolled back. Reddit is a fun site, what do you really expect?
Personally I think it's funny.
Kids were trolling, he trolled back. Reddit is a fun site, what do you really expect?
Personally I think it's funny.
If the admins have the ability to modify posts and comments without any notice or indication, this opens the door to... - Creating false content via discrete edits that violate ToS, allowing for false flag to ban a user/thread/subreddit - Any comment or post used as evidence (ahem, e.g. Hillary Clinton's IT guy, mention of drugs or crimes, literally anything like that) now is called into question. Wouldn't surprise me if he now has to testify that posts were not altered if it is accepted as evidence, etc. - Literally anything else where a verified identity post and people assume it is what they (the person) said. AMAs are basically the thing that took Reddit mainstream, so that is kind of a big deal.
Maybe the posts on the site shouldn't be afforded the assumption of integrity? Trump's supporters have already taken over the front page with a constant barrage of false "news" stories and a fanatical devotion to defend them.
There's no reason you shouldn't apply the classic 4-chan disclaimer to reddit as well:
>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
And not just on hacker news. What if the same thing happened on twitter or facebook?
People can say what they want about having access controls in place to prevent this but at the end of the day there is a DBA with super user access to the database, there always is.
If you can't hack that messages on these platforms don't carry any integrity then maybe you shouldn't use them.