Fuck Reddit and their failed leadership.
That's why I'm on Lemmy.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
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“We completely acknowledge that the post was removed in error and that this removal should not have occurred in the first place,” they wrote. “We have talked with all the moderators on the team to ensure that this does not happen again. We are committed to fixing our mistakes, and we reapproved the post as soon as we were made aware of the issue.”
Really don't think this is that news worthy, in the end. It was some new guy that didn't do his research on the post, and just assumed it was a blurry picture of an airplane from the ground. Once the more experienced mods were notified, they restored the post and apologized. It's a pretty sensationalized headline, though that's to be expected I suppose
It does, however, demonstrate just how much ill will Reddit has engendered towards itself that it was so easy to trigger the publication of such a story on (what I think is) not an entirely unknown or untrusted site. The frustration levels with Reddit are running high, and it doesn't take much to spark more animosity towards the site.
Might be that reddit is nearing the trust thermocline , but i'd wager noone in middle management and up is aware of it.
Frustration/anger is an easy emotion to provoke. It is much easier for anyone creating content to get clicks by making people mad. The title was intentionally sensationalized to get clicks, which is just the world we live in. Youtube videos perform better when it is provoking, podcasts get more listeners, news channels/sites get more watch time/site views. The headline could have just as easily said "Reddit's r/Aviation Moderators Temporarily Delete NASA Astronaut's Image for Quality Reasons, Then Restore It" but nobody would click on that because it's not a story.
Obviously there is a lot of animosity towards Reddit, but the animosity of tech companies is so widespread you could name any large tech company and make a sensationalized or clickbait headline.
This is a perfect example of how petty people hide behind rules.
“We brought some new people onto the mod team and unfortunately there are some Learning curves,” the moderator wrote, apologizing for the takedown. “I caught the issue and fixed it. Thanks to everyone who let me know that this happened.”
And/or, an example of how teams of people teach each other and grow. Clearly an onerous original decision, but more to the story. Let's neither hide behind rules nor snarky headlines.
...and in a mean twist known from many movies, that was the only copy in existence!
Srsly, here's a lo-res version of the pic:
The "article" "author" completely misunderstood the "tower, can I get a speed check" joke
I know it's a reference to that one story with the fast plane, but that one takes a long time to explain. I think their explanation makes as much sense as it can in one paragraph.
“Tower, can we get a speed check?” another user joked, referencing a frequently posted meme referencing the SR-71 spy jet. (For the curious, the ISS orbits the Earth at a ground speed of 17,100 mph, while an average passenger jet travels at around 500 to 700 mph ~~, depending on conditions~~.)
It's the "whoosh" of providing the additional context as though it were getting to the real heart of the joke that makes it look bad, and simply linking to that copypasta comment like they did to the one above it would have helped.
"They got us, guys, now we need to send our best space travelers to that black hole we discovered so we can take a better picture. This random nobody online needs a good space wallpaper he's going to have for a week on his desktop"