[mmastrac]

I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for.

EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.

[mrgalaxy]

Parent commenter shouldn't have said secretly. That was something he openly admitted to doing.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

[AlecSchueler]

I believe the issue the commenter above was taking was that just because someone commits, for lack of a better term, comment fraud, we shouldn't jump to suggesting he's also a paedophile.

[unshavedyak]

Oh, i took that comment to suggest that the downtime could (mostly jokingly, i assume) have something to do with Spez dealing with a post he didn't like.

[b112]

That was something he openly admitted to doing.

Not true! He did not openly admit to doing this. Instead:

* he did it, and told no one at all

* was caught doing it, after people figured it out

* then, admitted he did it

This is absolutely not the same as "openly admitting it".

He did secretly edit comments.

[DANmode]

It was secret/nontransparent until he admitted to it.

Still misleading, I agree.

[MattGaiser]

He admitted to doing it.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/

[danudey]

"Openly admitting" has a very different connotation than "fessing up after you get caught".

[croes]

I think it's about

> was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008

not the comment editing

[tipsysquid]

the accusation of editing comments I believe to be confirmed as fact, everything else I am not sure of.

[koprulusector]

This is something I’ve seen repeated on Reddit often. Virtually any meta thread on Reddit about Reddit will have several comments containing these allegations. I can’t imagine how much time someone might need to spend to dig through all the noise to get to the truth, but it rings of something that might have a kernel of truth, given the prevalence and uniformity of such accusations.

In either case, it’s easily as speculative as the parent comment above, maybe slightly more so, since the parent came from Twitter.

[drak0n1c]

>“Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing “spez” with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,” Huffman, who co-founded Reddit with Alexis Ohanian in 2005, wrote.

He did not admit to it until evidence was compiled and hit the front page, and let it appear for part of the week to participants and onlookers as if there was massive internal strife.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/