• bioemerl@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    Jesus Christ, do we have a good reason to believe that this was the admins and not some other random third-party group just deciding to do this for shits and giggles?

    Because on one hand yeah I could totally see red it doing this after all of their other stupid mistakes so far.

    On the other hand this seems really strange to me and it just seems so insane to think that Reddit would even think of doing this.

    • HeinousTugboat@kbin.social
      23·
      1 year ago

      On the other hand this seems really strange to me and it just seems so insane to think that Reddit would even think of doing this.

      Have you read about any of Spez’s interviews? This feels entirely like something they would do. Don’t forget, reddit was originally populated with bots.

    • crossmr@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is the main issue here. This whole narrative sprung from one comment in one thread that was made without any real evidence other than ‘this account is obviously a bot’. Did the admin do it? Maybe. Did someone else do it? Maybe. On one hand, we know that everyone on the internet is a good honest person and if anyone is trolling it could only be the self-serving admin and absolutely no one else would ever try to troll people on reddit, on the other hand the site is run by and full of a bunch of absolutely assholes. So really it could go either way.

      I’ve always had problems with mob justice, bandwagons, etc. though, and don’t go in for witchhunts and claims made without any real evidence to back them up.