>Reddit employees have the ability to edit messages with no audit trail and no governance.
How did you come to this conclusion? It is entirely possible that there was an audit trail and governance, spez simply ignored the governance, and he would have been fired after an examination of the audit trail if he was anyone else but the co-founder/CEO.
I'm not going to defend Reddit's corporate culture, but you are making a much more nebulous complaint here than OP did when they stated rather definitively that there was "no audit trail and no governance".
I realize that and it is why I referenced “OP” in that comment. They made a specific and direct statement which was in my opinion unsupported by the evidence. You countered my response with a more general and vaguer complaint that I can’t really disagree with but isn’t directly related to the original complaint I was refuting.
If someone can ignore the governance process then it’s not an effective governance process.
If there’s not auditing to identify when someone bypasses governance, then that’s not effective auditing.
Assuming effective controls are in place without any description of them and evidence that they fail is foolish, I think.
Reddit could have shown off their governance and audit process, but didn’t. I’ve worked on similar systems where someone can just edit the db records and there have been places with no and decent governance. It’s more likely that anyone with admin rights can change stuff. This is bad for a company as big as Reddit with as many users.
How did you come to this conclusion? It is entirely possible that there was an audit trail and governance, spez simply ignored the governance, and he would have been fired after an examination of the audit trail if he was anyone else but the co-founder/CEO.