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Comment by TekMol | Hacker News Reader

I recently posted on a subreddit that has the name of a big company.

The post became popular.

I could not believe my eyes, when some hours later, the post was edited.

I have never seen that before. Mods cannot edit users posts, right? Do some companies have superpowers on their sub, or did they reach out to Reddit to change the post?

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Mods cannot edit posts, only admins. In my experience, however, reddit generally opts to fully remove any posts that break terms of service or guidelines. I've never seen a partial edit of another user's post by an admin with one drama-filled exception.

On Reddit, supposedly only admins can edit posts. You should name and shame the company/sub

Unless it is a very recent change, that is always been true and admins don't even typically edit comments/submissions (with one very famous and controversial exception[0]). Mods can apply flair I believe though.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...

There is no mechanism to enable mods to edit user posts. If what you're saying is correct, it would be quite the controversy.

Use https://camas.unddit.com/ to look at the original version of your post, or share it here. You can also hover over the timestamp on old.reddit.com to show the last edit date.

The admins have done it and even admitted to it. Reddit is a for-profit corporation and has no obligation to maintain integrity unfortunately. They are beholden to shareholders and will do what their large customers ask.

Admins admitted to it once and it created enough controversy that they just fully delete stuff now.

If your post was edited, you should change your password and enable two factor authentication. Editing posts is not something mods can do. Admins (Reddit employees) are able to do this, but it is an extremely serious action that raises red flags.

If your post was edited to say "[Removed]" or "[Removed by Reddit]" that is a deletion, not an edit.

[Disclaimer: used to work for Reddit]

You should also check the login history for your account-- it may not be impossible that your account is compromised.

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