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Here it comes - Reddit admins taking over subs (lemmy.intai.tech)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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lemmy.world IS NOT a general discussion area. find another community.

my bad....

-manitcor

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[–] anders@rytter.me 167 points 2 years ago (40 children)

@manitcor Wtf!! What an asshole CEO

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 321 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (38 children)

So far Spez's legacy includes, in no particular order:

  • Changing other peoples' comments
  • Starting a war with the 3rd party app devs who made reddit the easily accessible platform it is (browsing reddit on the toilet wasn't nearly as common before the first apps came out, and all of the first ones were 3rd party)
  • Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls
  • Forcing new moderation teams on communities whose moderation he didn't agree with
  • Straight up lying about the 3rd party apps and their developers every step of the way

Way to go, Steve Huffman! You had a community of volunteers build your platform for you and now you're taking it all away from them. I'm sure this won't backfire.

[–] dontforgetthat@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Changing other peoples’ comments

Wait the guy changed someone's comment?

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes. I believe it was people on the donald subreddit, which could be seen as funny, because most sane people (myself included) don't agree with them politically, but it's still a huge misuse of admin powers and proof that he has no integrity. Can't let other peoples' rights be violated if we want to keep our own.

[–] Quizmo@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

Yeah he changed one comment saying: "Fuck u/spez" by replacing "spez" with one of the r/the_donald mods. This was also done silently so no * to indicate the comment had been edited.

[–] MercuryUprising@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, he got busted for it and wrote a half asked apology claiming he would change. Claimed he was just trolling...

[–] baascus@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck u/spez

[–] MrSebSin@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Fuck u/spez

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, its even listed on the Wiki page for reddit under 2016 controversies

[–] Photographer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Has it been removed? Seems to jump from him becoming CEO to the banning of loli?

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Further down the page under "Other Controversies"

[–] bloodsangre7@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Further down the page under "Other Controversies"

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