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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by goykasi »

notarget137 wrote: post #5
kaimac wrote: post #2

Clicking 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?

Could be an issue with too many tombstones in their Cassandra cluster. If there is an increase in deleted data (very possible given the blackout), the cluster could be having some issues. No doubt they have regularly, scheduled repairs on their tables, but those are not fast operations on huge clusters.

I hope its that and not something more dubious.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by blueblob »

fabian2k wrote: post #30
barrkel wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GDPR requires deleting personal data upon request unless required to be held by law.

Your Reddit posts are not personal data. Okay, you can probably get specific ones removed that way where you explicitly include personal data. But this doesn't mean that you have a right to delete all content you write anywhere.

Your Reddit posts absolutely can have personally identifying information and therefore are subject to GDPR.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Applejinx »

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?

I think it's justified and strangely on-brand, since Reddit is OpenAI's moat and feeds ChatGPT pretty directly. It's the nexus of a lot of interests that are dead center to what Hacker News is about.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by bombcar »

fabian2k wrote: post #30
barrkel wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GDPR requires deleting personal data upon request unless required to be held by law.

Your Reddit posts are not personal data. Okay, you can probably get specific ones removed that way where you explicitly include personal data. But this doesn't mean that you have a right to delete all content you write anywhere.

It's a weird interaction with Section 230 if Reddit can say "these posts are not ours, they are the posters" and yet the poster cannot edit/delete them.

Of course, HN itself kills your edit window after a certain time limit, so there is some legal way of doing it, I assume.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by xmdx »

nik736 wrote: post #3

This 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…

Even that won't work because there are companies like Pushshift (I think it's pushshift anyway) that are constantly archiving comments, so they have the old comment and the overwritten one. I think you can request pushshift delete your data under GDPR so at least you can remove your data from there, but I believe they are not the only ones doing this.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by codingdave »

Drakim wrote: post #16
fabian2k wrote: post #6

Where 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'…

What if that content includes personal data about me? My hopes, dreams, preferences, plans, goals and political opinions?

What if it does? I am not under the impression that those fall under PII/GDPR (IANAL), so if you post that stuff online to a site you do not control, it certainly has the potential to remain there.

And that is the heart of one the problems with reddit or any other site that encourages people to post everything under the sun. You are giving up control of what then happens with your content.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by josu »

nik736 wrote: post #3

This 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…

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

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