I think reddit is doomed anyway. Chat generated content is going to flood all these venues.
Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do the same. In my case, it's doxxing prevention. I don't like that someone can put my profile on one of the reddit inspector sites and get a detailed profile of me, including my age, where I live and my hobbies. I also don't like it when people can click on my name and get my entire history across all subreddits. That's not the case here because I consider HN to be the equivalent of a single Subreddit, so the info…
Why don’t you just use throwaways? I stopped reusing usernames online long long ago.
The trouble with throw away accounts is that there is technology to link the accounts by comparing your writing style to other accounts. Hacker news had a good demonstration of that awhile back.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#273This 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 conten…
I’ve never created an account on Reddit, but in general, I’m surprised to hear they even allow editing older content. Most discussion-based/social media sites have logic that locks the comment after so much time (often some timespan less than 1 day), and only allow deletion after that point.
I would also be surprised if Reddit didn’t add such logic if they figure out this (editing older content to replace it with gibberish) is happening. It seems like reasonable logic to have in place anyway.
To be clear, I’m not siding with Reddit on this. Just saying it seems odd they even allow it in the first place, especially for comments — the top level post may make sense to allow edits, but even then there’s usually a publicly visible edit history.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's crazy, most of the comments I read are months if not years old.
If I wrote something especially noteworthy, I'll likely remember in my mind forevermore. If memory loss does occur someday, oh well. Am I going to remember to care? The rest served its purpose at the time, but isn't something I will ever want to look back on again. What do you find so interesting in your old work?
It's not my old work I want to read, it's that of others. Comments are a frequently valuable shared annotation system for discussion on a post. Frequently I will search reddit for answers to questions I have and find a useful result in a comment.
Other times I want to get a summary of a new topic so I will find an applicable subreddit and sort by top from the last year to get an idea of what is interesting for this community.
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'll guess that the official app is in totally perfect shape with all their metrics. Which aren't the same metrics we measure with.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#276Reddit's privacy policy here seems to be pretty clear [0] > Deleting Your Account > You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferences page. You can also submit a request to delete the personal information Reddit maintains about you by following the process described below this table. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from conte…
Note this line that you quoted: "Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content." The privacy policy is explicitly saying that deleting your account does not delete your comments.
This has always been the case. That's why you'll sometimes see posts from [deleted].
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#277If you live in Europe, please file a complaint with your local data protection authorities.
Which they will promptly ignore or stonewall with endless back & forth until you give up.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
FIND ALL COMMENTS WHERE USER = 12345 AND UPDATED % is > 90%; REVERT ALL COMMENTS
I’m not sure what language you’re using, but I’m pretty sure you have a couple of syntax issues and unintended bugs in your code. This definitely isn’t passing any reasonable code review.
Code reviews ?
This goes directly in production, force pushed by spez.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#279This 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 conten…
I’ve never created an account on Reddit, but in general, I’m surprised to hear they even allow editing older content. Most discussion-based/social media sites have logic that locks the comment after so much time (often some timespan less than 1 day), and only allow deletion after that point. I would also be surprised if Reddit didn’t add such logic if they figure out this (editing older content to replace it with gib…
I actually only ever saw something like that twice, HN and our issue tracker.
Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But it could be argued you're 'defacing/destroying' digital property But it's your comment. While I'm sure there's legalese in the T's & C's that you hand over all rights to your comment over to Reddit or release it under a permissive license, that doesn't make it right or just. And I think reddit and other communities rely on keeping up the appearance that they respect you and your works, even if they're just shit…
They are not your comments. They are Reddit's. And TBH the perception of owning your comments doesn't really matter in the short term... people don't care, they just want to post. In the long term the actual content creators won't like it, but that is a problem for another owner.
If the comments all belong to Reddit, are they legally liable for any illegal stuff on them?