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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by keybpo »

ncallaway wrote: post #476
katbyte wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how did you see/find the comments?

I checked my profile by visiting old.reddit.com/user/[username]/comments. Then I used shreddit to edit/delete my comments, and kept viewing that page to confirm comments were being removed. I also picked a handful of comments and confirmed they appeared as “deleted/removed” in the threads in which they appeared. When shreddit was done, I checked my profile comments list to confirm it was empty. I double checked 1 and…

But people here are saying not all appear on the profile pages. I've checked mine and indeed there are a handful of undeleted stuff. My last purge was before the blackout and I'm sure it was completely clean as I had to do a couple more passes to catch all the sumbission/comments that for some reason weren't wiped (edited & deleted) on the first pass.

I also use old.reddit but I believe on the new.reddit you can limit a search to only a defined user comment. Maybe with some wildcards or regex one can get to them? Otherwise you'd need to know of a submission or a direct link to your comment.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by dmix »

FireBeyond wrote: post #438
dmix wrote: post #413

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What business value would it provide?

What business value did editing users comments out from under them? Still happened, though.

I’m not sure how that’s relevant to my question. He was drunk and being an idiot, that wasn’t a major management decision like disallowing deletion of comments which affects the entire platform.

That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Im also very skeptical comment deletion is happening at such a scale to be meaningful vs the billion new comments they get a year.

This all smacks of low quality speculation thats mostly a consequence of the current outrage cycle of the week.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by nvrgngvup »

giraffe_lady wrote: post #452
systemtest wrote: post #362

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I've had interviews with programming challenges and they recorded every single keystroke. Not sure how legal that is.

I've seen employee feedback software that does this.

That is so wrong. In cases where long input is required, I, for some reason, have a habit of writing things down in plain text editor, and then copying that to forms. Did not know that I need to make this a required step.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by jbverschoor »

buro9 wrote: post #10
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.

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 lo…

GDPR request to request your data and then one to delete all data about you.

If they don’t comply, they’ll get fined, and I have the feeling it will not be a small one given how they handle things

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Cpoll »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #491
Maximus9000 wrote: post #272

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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. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

Some might call me paranoid, but I also change my writing style between sensitive accounts. Not all, because that would be a bother, but between accounts where I'm a moderator and those where I'm a normal user, I make sure to change my mindset. On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.

> On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.

Beware, in some cases uncommon or unique anonymization techniques may make you _easier_ to de-anonymize.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by seanw444 »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #491
Maximus9000 wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

Some might call me paranoid, but I also change my writing style between sensitive accounts. Not all, because that would be a bother, but between accounts where I'm a moderator and those where I'm a normal user, I make sure to change my mindset. On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.

Perhaps it is paranoid, but you're not alone.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by wallmountedtv »

bambax wrote: post #131

Requesting our own user data en masse is probably a good avenue of protest. Here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

It seems that Reddit has stopped responding to data requests. If this is because their servers are overloaded, or if this is intentional, I'm not sure.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Leherenn »

dmix wrote: post #500
Leherenn wrote: post #486

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Reddit has value no just through it's "new/live" content. Plenty of people search for "$topic Reddit" and fond some old threads with useful information. If the content is deleted, Reddit usefulness goes way down.

So you’re saying deletions are so wide scale they decided to undelete every comment in the past couple days? And this is the new policy?

I have no idea why they decided to do that's or even whether that was on purpose. But I don't think it's impossible, yes.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

dmix wrote: post #500
Leherenn wrote: post #486

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit has value no just through it's "new/live" content. Plenty of people search for "$topic Reddit" and fond some old threads with useful information. If the content is deleted, Reddit usefulness goes way down.

So you’re saying deletions are so wide scale they decided to undelete every comment in the past couple days? And this is the new policy?

they appear to be doing something along those lines, the conclusions around how common it is can be left to the reader

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

dmix wrote: post #502
FireBeyond wrote: post #438

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What business value did editing users comments out from under them? Still happened, though.

I’m not sure how that’s relevant to my question. He was drunk and being an idiot, that wasn’t a major management decision like disallowing deletion of comments which affects the entire platform. That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Im also very skeptical comment deletion is happening at such a scale to be meaningful vs the billion new comments they get a year. T…

him editing user comments like he did was also unprecedented, maybe he's just vindictive and belligerent and irrational

his recent behavior suggest that's a possibility

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