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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by justin66 »

xaitv wrote: post #121
nashashmi wrote: post #53

The Reddit wars have begun. Users were misled to believe they have power. And now are completely bewildered when they realize they don’t have as much power as they thought. The funny thing is that this is all over a stupid API that was causing more harm to Reddit than it was functioning as a public service. Apps were functioning as alternatives to the Reddit website and app. The whole thing about API back in 2000s is…

I think the current pricing of Reddit's API isn't meant to recoup costs of maintaining the API, it's meant to kill 3rd party apps so people switch to the official app, which shows ads. It's not so much the cost of maintaining the API than it is the cost of missed ad revenue.

Wouldn't it have made sense for Reddit to get the official app in some kind of shape, with all the needed accessibility features and moderator controls, before killing third party apps?

They just seem to be doing things out of order. Another example: alienate long-time users and mods by making it abundantly clear that they're product and free labor really should have come after the IPO.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by arbitrage »

thatsadude wrote: post #42

What? I pruned my comments before leaving reddit. If they restore my comments, does this mean they don’t respect me as a user at all!

Reddit has never respected its users. Spez's continued user-hostile antics over the years show that this is the case very clearly.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by hourago »

That could be interesting. I have seen accounts making racist or violent remarks and just deleting them afterwards after a few hours.

That accounts seem of normal people engaging in normal conversations. But they spit hate everywhere they go, it is just not reflected in their history.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by OldManRyan »

e12e wrote: post #214
293984j29384 wrote: post #22

I can confirm a comment I made in r/vmware has been restored. I typically delete my comments after 24 hours. I have a single comment from 20 days ago that was previously deleted now back on my profile.

This will be interesting if reddit conducts business (sells ads) in the EU. Hard to see how having such old backups of user content isn't in violation of the GDPR.

IANAL but having dealt with GDPR lawyers in a past career, GDPR allows you to anonymize user data as in, if there is no link between the user and the data, that satisfies a right to erasure request. That is not what is happening here but it is not as if reddit has no way to keep deleted comments and still be GDPR compliant.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by EMCymatics »

rodw wrote: post #113
popey wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used Power Delete Suite to remove all comments from all public and private subs. They all came back today. So I re-deleted them again. I suspect it's more likely the site didn't process the deletions properly, rather than maliciously bringing them back, or as you suggest, that they were private. Edit: It's possible that the deletion only worked on public posts, after all, it seems?

I've got a decade old account on which I've made a habit of manually deleting comments older than 6 - 9 months, since they get so little visibility and there's no value in leaving a breadcrumb trail. Checking just now I see that comments up to 3 - 4 years old have been restored. I'm not going to speculate as to why (beyond agreeing it's more likely to be incompetence than malice) but in my case at least there are def…

just hope they dont edit them too

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by yarg »

cj wrote: post #150
lumb63 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m astounded and confused that you and a lot of other commenters are giving Reddit the benefit of the doubt. At a time when tensions between Reddit management and its users are at an all-time high, and both sides are maliciously striking back and forth, most commenters are assuming that an act like this is due to incompetence rather than malice? I don’t understand the thought process.

Innocent until proven guilty can be a decent philosophy even outside the courtroom. Especially when tensions are high. Both sides giving the other the benefit of the doubt can help to deescalate. Unless the objective isn't to deescalate.

Outside of court, the preponderance of evidence changes with a history of operating in bad faith.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Shaanie »

Glench wrote: post #153
josu wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is what this extension does: https://github.com/sr33/ares It hasn't been maintained in a while, but I can confirm that it still works. EDIT: Here is another alternative. I haven't used this one myself but it seems legit: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

I also recently made a browser extension because those two tools are outdated / hard to use: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit... Let me know if you try it! Still developing and would love feedback.

Personally I'd love to have an upvote and subreddit filter. So "delete all comments except the ones on /r/askscience or the ones with above 100 upvotes".

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by ncallaway »

llm_nerd wrote: post #68
hubraumhugo wrote: post #7

There 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?

Worth noting that HN has become a Reddit-refugee outpost so this will probably continue if not get worse. See the other Reddit post (one about Reddit punting mods if they act against the interests of Reddit itself, which has always been true it's worth noting) with 100s of comments, folded into pages and pages of continuations. I mean does anyone honestly seriously believe Reddit purposefully undeleted this guy's com…

I can’t speak to whether it was purposeful or not, but many of the comments I have deleted on Reddit have also been restored.

It seems unlikely that their comments specifically were targeted, but it seems entirely plausible that a site-wide restoration took place that included their comments.

It also could be a bug.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Cerium »

randomdata wrote: post #200
b0afc375b5 wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. If it's alright to ask, why do you have this policy? In my case I never delete my posts/comments and always edit with a big "EDIT" disclosure.

A comment’s value rarely outlasts more than 24 hours, if that. Why hoard data?

That's crazy, most of the comments I read are months if not years old.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by xp84 »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #103
hubraumhugo wrote: post #7

There 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?

Musk has gotten several. The elonjet Twitter shit got days of 500+ comment posts, and that's just the most recent example I can think of. Twitter didn't die, I doubt reddit will.

Hey give it time in the case of Twitter. Last I checked they have a distinct strong lack of profitability, which tanked further the second Musk started spooking advertisers. Obviously he can afford to personally bankroll it, though, but it seems like a bad ROI.
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