• overlordror@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    1 year ago

    This is the same guy who stealth edited a comment of a user he was angry with and then justified his decision by saying he grew up being a troll on the internet. Leave the troll’s playground and watch it crumble. Reddit isn’t spez. It’s all of us.

      • Skelectus@suppo.fi
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I don’t think lemmy provides tools for that (good), so normal moderators, can’t do this. With direct access to the server, maybe. So make sure your server admin isn’t spez.

      • ericjmorey@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        The person running an instance has access to the database of that instance and can do whatever they want with the data in that database.

        • chrisn@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 year ago

          Only 1 server is sending the changes to the other servers? So if the instance is the source, the same thing would happen? Or will most servers have the data already by then, and not receive updates?

          • ericjmorey@beehaw.org
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            If you view the data from Beehaw’s interface, you see the data of Beehaw’s database. If you view the data from Lemmy.world’s interface you see the data of Lemmy.world’s database. There’s no guarantee of consistency between the databases of different instances.

      • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        My memory is a bit foggy, but I believe it was something like: on a Donald Trump subreddit, a top comment with tons of upvotes was anti-spez. Tons of upvotes meant that tons of people saw it. That comment then changed to saying spez was awesome. No “user edited comment” or “admin edited comment” tag or anything, like what you normally see in edited comments. People banged on spez’s door about it and he admitted that he had both the power and inclination to stealth edit other peoples’ comments.

        Since it was a Trump topic, way too many users let what happened slide, but it’s become just one more thing people can point to about Reddit’s issues.