!bardfinn

While it's probably true

This is how Bardfinn accuses you of being a liar while also not. This is the "left jab" before the "right hook."

Repeating:

While it's probably true that many employees knew that they were changing access terms for the Reddit API as of 40 days ago,

Here is where he acknowledges a degree of specificity, but really he's just trying to tell you that he's "in the know."

it's also very true

Here comes that "right hook." Here is where Bardfinn drop the pretense and directly makes an accusation of lying, by pointing out what he thinks is a contradiction.

it's also very true that many of those changes have plausible business cases for why they're necessary.

I'll repeat this part. "Plausible business cases" is bardfinn-speak for "reddit is lying to us."

it's also very true that many of those changes have plausible business cases for why they're necessary. Reddit can / has / will likely continue to justify that less than 2% of moderation activity was done via modqueues through third party apps.

I guess this means that Reddit jannies, having lost their favorite 3rd party apps, continue to do 98% of their moderation actions through the official reddit mobile app or the desktop site(s).

What they cannot weasel away from

This is the point bardfinn wants to make by connecting his weaselwords and BAD FAITH PREMISE.

WHILE IT'S PROBABLY TRUE, ITS ALSO VERY TRUE, THEY CANNOT WEASEL AWAY FROM

(((OH BOY HERE IT COMES)))

is that they were simultaneously running usage experiments that blocked logged-in users — including moderators — from accessing their login sessions via mobile browser,

Because that's an admin saying flatly exactly that they were running an experiment to do just that

There we have it.

Reddit is conducting illegal human research experiments.

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