They shouldn't though, if they want to be credible and the site they own/market. Now this is lost.
It took people harrassing him personally, and at scale, for him to snap. And even then he did not ban anyone, but did what amounts to a prank. And even then he did not hide it, but owned it and apologized.
At every turn of this he showed himself to be a greater man than most of us.
*his words, not mine
Also, calling someone a dumbfuck and pretending you didn't just do that because it's "just a quote" is not the greatest a look a person can aim for. ;)
http://www.businessinsider.com/embarrassing-and-damaging-zuc...
Who's words?
Silently editing their comments shows that reddit has very poor data management practices. It shouldn't be possible for the CEO to edit content like that.
E: I'm trying to say, your perspective is off. Reddit is an internet humor place. Just because it's big enough to have a CEO doesn't mean it's suddenly run with all the seriousness and as tight as a bank.
This is the stupidest comment I have read.
"Don't worry bro, I only shot you as a prank!"
"Don't worry bro, I only slept with your wife as a prank!"
This isa CEO of an incredibly far reaching site who was personally EDITING the posts of users on his site because his ego was hurt.
This is ridiculous!!!
Have you ever heard of "false equivalence"?
"IT WAS A PRANK BRO"
You need to take some time to evaluate you're understanding of "false" equivalence.
/u/spez is falsely equating his actions with a "prank"
Only after he got.
His action was wrong. But it was provoked.
There are other comments celebrating what he did because it was again /r/the_donald "trolls."
Lot's of people don't care what actions you take so long as its against a group/individual that they don't like. That is short sighted thinking IMO.
That's what spez was responding to. He did it in a terribly immature way that I could never condone (unless it were really funny, like this, in which case, I think it's hilarious). But, it was not a random "I don't like this group" situation, and to frame it that way is to manipulate the narrative. The behavior in question was a witch hunt, and against reddit rules; the witch hunt started because a subreddit was banned for posting (tons of!) personal information and launching a witch hunt against a random restaurant and bar and its owners. Again, that's clearly against reddit rules. Those rules are reasonable, and if someone doesn't like them, they should take their shit elsewhere.
It's not about not liking The_Donald. Nobody likes The_Donald, but reddit has always been more than fair in dealing with all of their bullshit; the vote brigades (against reddit rules), the orchestrated abuse of other subs and moderators and users, etc. Large swaths of them probably should have been banned months ago. But, Steve has always been slow to ban. Probably to a fault. When you fail to ban folks like this you breed a community of people like this, who feel entitled to be abusive without response.