https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-t...
Reddit has always seemed to have gotten a pass when it comes to being a cesspool of fake accounts, what we would call bots today. I'm really hoping it fails, it's leadership team has always been amongst the worst of the tech companies.
And there are many worse examples of leadership in tech than Reddit. If anything until recently most of its C-suite historically (post founders) has been uninteresting enough to care. No one on the scale of a Gates, Neuman, Ellison, etc.
The recent turdstorm however, does signal a likely lamentable shift downward.
Certainly unethical then and I don't think much has changed as far as ethics goes, now.