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		wsmith on Nov 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that w... A friend proposed another theory, inappropriate as it may seem. That it's a way to draw attention to Reddit needing to make money, and Steve, being the CEO, has to find a way to do it and take blame for it. If so, he deserves to be applauded. There are things a founder/CEO has to do you can't say.

flopsey on Nov 24, 2016 [–]

How would what he did do that?

Grangar on Nov 24, 2016 | [–]

Bad PR is still PR.

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