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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Mindwipe »

Karunamon wrote: post #239
qzx_pierri wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huffman (spez) has his reasons for the reddit changes, but they do seem a bit short-sighted. But there comes a point where these online services have to make money. It's as simple as that. So is he waging war on users, or making a business decision? Also, Musk is waging war against advertisers. Running a site that is controlled by advertisers is the epitome of extreme centralization, since the site's income can be ha…

If it was indeed a business decision, then Huffman is breathtakingly incompetent. To the degree that, were the company public, I would be agitating for the board to remove him as his actions negatively impact my investment. A number of ways this could have been handled better in no particular order: 1. Give more than 30 days notice to third party app developers. 2. Mandate that third-party clients display advertising…

8. Don't go on major news outlets and come across as being on crack.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by testfrequency »

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.

Alright I’m not crazy. I wiped all my comments a week ago, and my comments in /r/Apple, /r/SanFrancisco, and /r/gaming all are active again

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Post by im3w1l »

6c696e7578 wrote: post #302

Obvious LOL. Stupid question, but did anyone ever /trust/ online social sites to do what they claimed when it came to managing user data?

I'm a pessimist and usually suspect the worst. But when they actually do it, you can bet I still hold it against them.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by NortySpock »

chongli wrote: post #111
comboy wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They own deleted data too. If I would be selling this data I would just cleanup all edits and deletes starting from a few weeks ago to a time when the Internet gets bored with the drama. In modern chaotic world usually the best weapon against something you don't like is to just ignore it (there are exceptions of course).

Why not use a bot to automatically post brand new chatgpt-generated fake comments in between edits with fake stuff? Or automate making edits that insert/delete/replace one word with a random word? There's many different things to do that could trash the data and make it worthless for training AI. With the right tools, this sort of automation can also be made very difficult to detect (randomize the time interval betwe…

Costs more money to develop and run a ChatGPT bot than it is to say

    UPDATE comments WITH SKIPLOCK 
    SET _soft_deleted_time = null
    WHERE _soft_deleted_time > '2023-05-01'

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by avgDev »

jlpcsl wrote: post #294

Wow wow, Isn't this the violation of the Europen GDPR privacy laws. If you deletd it then they should actually be deleted, otherwise you are violating the laws.

I am planning on using my EU citizenship to have reddit wipe my history completely.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by BonoboIO »

tanepiper wrote: post #286

Today, Reddit has started a data rollback. What they've done though it go way too far - so far they are undeleting posts from over a decade ago. Reddit didn't actually delete anything, only soft deletes. In the image posted there are also cached thumbnails from YouTube - those videos no longer exist. I've already had one trans person confirm there are posts appearing from before their transition. The IPO is really go…

Why are you downvoted?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by oh_sigh »

tanepiper wrote: post #296
jlpcsl wrote: post #294

Wow wow, Isn't this the violation of the Europen GDPR privacy laws. If you deletd it then they should actually be deleted, otherwise you are violating the laws.

Yes and the irony is I was in Oslo today, showing to people within the EU our PoC demo for IKEA.com - on how we can provide recommendations with no third party data - and with the idea of consumers controlling exactly what is used to provide it - including the right to delete it all. This is the way we're going - totally the opposite way.

Is your poc or a further description of it up online anywhere?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

jlpcsl wrote: post #294

Wow wow, Isn't this the violation of the Europen GDPR privacy laws. If you deletd it then they should actually be deleted, otherwise you are violating the laws.

There must be some legal justification for reddit doing this.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

Maybe Reddit users don't qualify for "Right to Erasure" because Reddit is still going, their data is being used, they technically didn't revoke "consent" and so on?

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