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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by shirro »

wallmountedtv wrote: post #507
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.

I haven't heard back on my data request but I expect they are dealing with a higher than usual volume. I got an export when I mass deleted my comment history so I am not too concerned. My main interest in the data request now is as confirmation that my content has been deleted.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by shirro »

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 don't think it is a suicide but a pivot into a new phase of their business. A phase that is focused more on mainstream content, increased monetisation etc. The rushed API change and poor communication appeared to be incompetent but possibly they are happy to endure some negative publicity and subscriber loss to restructure the business around promoting products to granny while she looks at reposts of cat pics.

I don't think I will be returning to reddit. Just deleted a decade and thousands of comments. There are clearly many other ways to build online communities and I think a lot of people are more motivated than ever to develop those alternatives now. Eventually one of those alternatives will possibly kill reddit but I don't think the current exodus and subreddit protests will.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by buildbot »

xwdv wrote: post #526
buildbot wrote: post #514

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In some jurisdictions, maybe, but probably not the EU or California.

You must mail in copies of two forms of identification proving EU and California citizenship.

That’s probably not complaint with GDPR…

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Llamamoe »

Cpoll wrote: post #505
Karawebnetwork wrote: post #491

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Easier to pinpoint as unique, sure, but de-anonymize? How?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by telmo »

bunga-bunga wrote: post #257
telmo wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Users were misled to believe they have power. And now are completely bewildered when they realize they don’t have as much power as they thought. First of all: if Reddit really is doing this, then it is committing an illegal act. At least in the EU, I'm sure in other jurisdictions also. There are in fact laws protecting the users. Second of all: Reddit cannot force users to post and moderate, and without those thing…

I think your thoughts are completely off. Removing users from power is definitely not illegal. Digg lost because they changed the website, Reddit has not changed here. > third-party apps are the only ones that are actually usable In your opinion. Millions of users just use the site and official app. > valueless replaceable cogs. Which they are. Plenty of mods are ready to take care of popular subreddits. Some users w…

> I think your thoughts are completely off. Removing users from power is definitely not illegal.

Yes, but restoring user generated content that was deleted by the creator without their consent is. That is what we are talking about here.

You seem to have a crystal ball and know the future, so who am I to argue.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Paul-Craft »

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #525
snarfy wrote: post #524

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> That would be unprecedented in the history of social media to only allow permanent comments. Ok, so how do I delete my HN comments?

You do it before someone has replied to it. Once someone has replied, you can't delete your comment without destroying the context of their comment. It's not just about you at that point.

We'll see about that the minute someone makes a GDPR request to delete their stuff.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Paul-Craft »

samstave wrote: post #281
hgsgm wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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He was literally just on NPR defending his position. Stated that there has been no impact to the business and that paying "tens of millions a year on infra to support third party apps is not sustainable" but that he wont be changing any policy changes because they need to find a sustainable balance on the UGC ad model.

I don't think anything he says to anybody right now is all that credible.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by NikkiA »

I just had another cluster of deleted comments reappear, this time all that had been posted in r/Unexpected, which leads me to suspect this is happening on a per-subreddit occurance, perhaps as a side effect of some other subreddit-specific shenanigans that reddit is doing.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by NikkiA »

OrangeMusic wrote: post #516
NikkiA wrote: post #494

I had most of mine re-appear, and Redact was failing to re-delete them (it would lose authentication the second it tried to delete a comment). So I just ran Nuke Reddit History and deleted them all again.

Looked for Nuke Reddit History, can't find it?

It is an extension for Chrome, but google delisted it (along with other reddit content deleters). It still exists on the edge extension store though:

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/nuke-reddi...

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