Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#2Clicking on the title of the kbin post takes you here where there are more comments: https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144
This seems like such an unwise thing for them to do that I feel like there must be another explanation.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#3This is crazy! I like the following comment on kbin:
> I said it before and I say it again: if you have the patience to do so then make sure you overwrite your content with chatgpt generated content, as the future AI that will feed on your post HATE feeding on already AI generated stuff. It makes the AI diverge.
People should not be deleting their posts but actually just replacing them with random AI generated content. This will make Reddit a mess.
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#4Does this comply with GDPR?
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#5Clicking on the title of the kbin post takes you here where there are more comments: https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144 This seems like such an unwise thing for them to do that I feel like there must be another explanation.
Maybe some database restoring gone wrong?
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#6Where does the idea come from that not allowing users to delete content is against the law/GPDR?
You have the right to ask for deletion of personal information they store, and even that has certain limits. You don't have the right to force the company to delete content unless they granted you that right via the licence somehow.
Whether this is a good or bad idea for a company to do is a different question. But I don't see a legal issue here like the linked post claims.
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#7There has been a constant stream of negative top HN posts about Reddit for a few weeks now, even if they often get manually pushed down from the front page. Was there ever a comparable shitstorm on HN against a big corp? Will this go down as the fastest suicide of a social media company?
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#8Does this comply with GDPR?
Of course not!
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#9Does this comply with GDPR?
No it isn't, obviously.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#10Clicking on the title of the kbin post takes you here where there are more comments: https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144 This seems like such an unwise thing for them to do that I feel like there must be another explanation.
This is definitely unwise.
I run forums and have done for +20y.
Reddit may have a user agreement that allows them to use the data forever, but historical versions that were not visible (effectively soft-deleted on edit) puts this into a risk area as it removes the ability for someone to control the data thus transferring ownership far more explicitly to Reddit.
Reddit should be very cautious here... you only get a lot of protections (EU eCommerce Act, etc) but being mere conduit. Arguably volunteer moderators took on a lot of the liability by their act of moderating, and Reddit were able to distance themselves from a lot of the content on the platform.
But once Reddit go intervening in the content, choosing to make some old revisions public, they're now taking editorial decisions that strip them of a lot of the things that protect them.
This is an incredibly naive move in the big picture.