I assume someone’s deleting critical news articles there, or having bot armies downvote them. On Kbin and Lemmy and Squabbles, even on Google News, I see Reddit’s woes front and center.

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    If you are just learning now that the admins manipulate the site in any way that they please you are late to the party. Reminds me of Spez editing users comments.

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      It’s one thing to hear about this manipulation and another to experience it though. The moment reddit restored my comments multiple times I knew how fucked Reddit really was/is.

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        wait. They did that? I thought that my reddact ‘forgot’ to delete some comments…

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        Nevermind, I just went on reddit to check this. All my comments had been deleted except some that Reddact changed with nonsense stuff such as :

        relieved growth consider smoggy oil disgusted crowd water mysterious tender – mass edited with https://redact.dev/

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          Could be your old comments were in private subs that went public again.

          You can’t edit or delete posts in a private community

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      @Delete I’m not just learning that admins manipulate Reddit, I’ve been there since the Digg exodus, I’m just making an observation about the form that manipulation is currently taking. I hope this is acceptable.