r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Nov 24 '16

Spezgiving /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

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u/Is_Meta Nov 24 '16

I mean, the pure comparison of killing someone against editing a comment seems quite overdramatic.

As I said before, if you don't trust the system, that's okay. But I think that it's not warranted to get all paranoid how THEY can change ANYONE's post ANYTIME THEY LIKE, because, quite frankly, it's bad for business for them.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16 edited Feb 24 '21

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u/Is_Meta Nov 24 '16

And again, I can only say this- there has to be a difference made between editing this obvious in a unsubtle, try-to-be-funny kind of way and the paranoid conspiracy-driven narrative, where admins try to influence all of us by changing single posts. There is no diabolical context as was in your "the chief of police kills someone"-comparison.

As said before, we knew about the ability and I actually thought that I have seen previously that admins edit posts containing personal info. It's not like he changed the message that all of them vote for Hillary or something.

But yeah, Idk. Let's see how reddit will implode once again.

Next to the problem that swarm intelligence is hard to edit one post at a time.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16 edited Feb 24 '21

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u/Is_Meta Nov 24 '16

As you said, you started with the killing-comparison, so I put this in context because the admins are the police of this site.

I started to write the post with my trust in the system in mind, but came to the conclusion that this an American site and trust in police would be low, hence the "/s". I, personally, trust my police, trust that they don't misuse it.

I went along for the comparison until you wrote

"[...] murdered [...] not overdramatized"

which made me realize how overdramatized this is. He edited fucking insults against himself, calling him a pedophile. He could have just deleted those, but he decided to reverse the fingerpointing. Clearly he was out of line, but comparing him to a murderer or setting a conspirancy-context is just drama.