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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by shagie »

flangola7 wrote: post #449
SAI_Peregrinus wrote: post #444

Murphy's Law applies, as always. Once it's on the internet, it's public forever, with one exception: if you need to find it again later, it's guaranteed to have link-rotted. Trying to delete things is an exercise in futility.

Individuals have a Right to be Forgotten. It seems this action is almost certainly in gross violation of GDPR. Reddit not only has EU users but employees and physical assets in Europe, are they trying to be made an example of?

> Individuals have a Right to be Forgotten. It seems this action is almost certainly in gross violation of GDPR.

I'm curious how this would apply to the fedverse.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by DropInIn »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #450
DropInIn wrote: post #373

Comments are protected by copyright.... By undeleting comments they are violating the copyright of the authors by engaging in unauthorized use Even if Reddit was the one that deleted it, the user needs to be informed if Reddit renews their use of the copyrighted work. Where the user deleted it, the violation is beyond obvious.

Good thing they included a "you essentially transfer ownership to us and allow us to do anything we want" clause in their little terms of service document that nobody actually reads.

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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by FireBeyond »

TX81Z wrote: post #518
dmix wrote: post #502

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think the point being made is that somebody who would get drunk and edit comments on a forum they control is the LAST person who should run a forum of any sort. Also, why do people who are defending him always refer to him being drunk? Is he granted some sort of “blame the booze” pass for those actions?

"Just drunken modin'!" "Just drunken CEOin'!"

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by zoky »

nkrisc wrote: post #254
zoky wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, so, at first I scoffed at the notion as well, but I kept following up on it, and… are we really so sure that it wasn’t Ghislaine Maxwell? I kept looking for them to post something, anything… but nothing. https://old.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill/ All it would have taken is a single post to prove that it really wasn’t her, but no. Radio silence. For over three years. It’s not like somebody is protesting being defa…

This attitude is exactly why if I was the mod in question, I would just ditch the account. You're asking them to prove a negative, no amount of proof they could provide would ever be enough. They'd be forever hounded by internet lunatics.

Not at all. A single post on the account would be enough to completely disprove the theory. The whole reason the theory exists is that the account was previously extremely active, and all activity stopped abruptly when Maxwell was arrested. I don’t think you can say “no amount of proof would ever be enough” when no proof at all has been provided.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by zoky »

DismantleMars wrote: post #220
zoky wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, so, at first I scoffed at the notion as well, but I kept following up on it, and… are we really so sure that it wasn’t Ghislaine Maxwell? I kept looking for them to post something, anything… but nothing. https://old.reddit.com/user/maxwellhill/ All it would have taken is a single post to prove that it really wasn’t her, but no. Radio silence. For over three years. It’s not like somebody is protesting being defa…

I think the lack of activity since the conspiracy theory started could be easily explained by the user being creeped out by the witch hunt and abandoning their account. I know if I was accused of secretly being a hated figure like Maxwell on an account that wasn't connected my real identity, I wouldn't come out and deny it, I'd just ditch my account and make a new one. It also seems unlikely to me that someone like G…

> I think the lack of activity since the conspiracy theory started could be easily explained by the user being creeped out by the witch hunt and abandoning their account.

The problem there is that nobody made the connection until after the activity on the account stopped abruptly, coinciding with Maxwell’s arrest.

> I know if I was accused of secretly being a hated figure like Maxwell on an account that wasn't connected my real identity, I wouldn't come out and deny it, I'd just ditch my account and make a new one.

If you’re a power mod that has spent years building up influence and control over numerous subreddits, that’s not so simple. You could leave, of course, but continuing with an alternate account wouldn’t really be feasible.

> It also seems unlikely to me that someone like Ghislaine Maxwell would have the time to be such a prolific Reddit user, and that she would write like a Redditor - for example calling someone "butt-hurt" in one comment.

Who knows? It also didn’t seem likely that someone like Ghislaine Maxwell was engaged in a massive sex trafficking operation.

I’m still not 100% convinced the account actually did belong to Maxwell, but at first I scoffed at the idea as ridiculous and insane, and now I’m not so sure about that.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by TX81Z »

FireBeyond wrote: post #533
TX81Z wrote: post #518

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the point being made is that somebody who would get drunk and edit comments on a forum they control is the LAST person who should run a forum of any sort. Also, why do people who are defending him always refer to him being drunk? Is he granted some sort of “blame the booze” pass for those actions?

"Just drunken modin'!" "Just drunken CEOin'!"

He’s like Rick Sanchez, but instead of a drunk genius he’s just a drunk moron.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by zoky »

hunter2_ wrote: post #195
zoky wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As much as I hate to give Reddit the benefit of the doubt, I think you’re right that Hanlon’s razor may well apply here, albeit substituting incompetence for stupidity.

I think you meant to say "substituting stupidity" -- the new thing is the substitute for the old thing.

Hanlon’s Razor states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I’m saying Reddit is incompetent in this case, rather than stupid. Not quite sure what you’re getting at?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by firecall »

b0afc375b5 wrote: post #172
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.

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.

I do something similar.

I switched my outlook on life a while back.

I take somewhat Buddhist Lite approach to life and consider possessions as misery and so on.

I extend that to online conversations.

I just delete them and clear my history. I don’t feel everything I’ve ever written online, every message and every email should live online forever.

It’s a mental burden that I don’t want.

So I auto delete where I can.

It’s cathartic. I think I started doing it during my burnout nervous breakdown phase after exiting corporate life.

I found I’d write things on Slack and then delete them. The anxiety of having my thoughts out there weighed on me.

Thoughts and conversations should be transient, I feel.

Each to their own! :-)

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Semaphor »

tjalfi wrote: post #520
wallmountedtv wrote: post #507

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I requested mine last week and haven't heard back from them.

It does say within 30 days
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