[mardifoufs]

Tbf, you could totally lose your job with a single edit if your identity is associated with your Reddit account. It would be very very very hard to argue with a straight face that the admins added a racial slur to your comment without sounding completely crazy and dishonest.

[mikeyouse]

Sure - but none of that happened, and the possibility of that happening is exactly the same whether Huffman had trolled the dredge at TheDonald or not. Not everything in life is a slippery slope, it's often just best to weigh things on their own merits.

[Arkhaine_kupo]

> Not everything in life is a slippery slope

However in this case...

He already admitted to changing post titles (in his own words to fix typos and other minor corrections). So he got the hang of modifying prod data with a "good cause" and once he had the know-how he turned around and sued it to edit someone's comment.

Had that not caused a big stir, maybe it would have become his new past time. maybe it has, maybe he goes back 5-6 years to comments you cannot reply to because the threads are locked and adds little jokes there, who knows cause he is now totally untrustworthy on this matter.

[mardifoufs]

I don't disagree, if anything I think the whole thing was pretty funny when it happened. The outrage was pretty over the top too.

I'm just saying that it could be a dangerous thing to do, if only because it creates doubt and deniability.