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Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by randunel »

red75prime wrote: post #38
drcongo wrote: post #15

Every European Reddit user should put in a full GDPR data request.

And they will get a reasonable answer that reddit doesn't store personal information beyond what it needs to operate. It's technically impossible to identify correct personal information in users' posts.

Post something personal, then put in a 1st GDPR request and ask for all the servers (and their jurisdictions), all the backups, all the 3rd parties with access related to the post itself. Then ask for the security certifications and GDPR policies of each entity named. Then ask the company to delete the post for you in a 3rd GDPR request.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by delusional »

Xen9 wrote: post #51

In the role an evil reddit CEO, I would restore bulk-deleted comments but disconnected from the accounts that made them and allow GDPR requests via carefully hidden form. This would disable my users / victims from deleting their stuff (thus decreasing the value of my platform temporarily) while probably complying with GDPR. I would also consider copying Twitters URL shortener. Muhaha

Do you even have any GDPR related rights when talking about anonymous comments left on a messageboard?

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by MichaelZuo »

llm_nerd wrote: post #12

Hanlon's razor. Anyone who has used Reddit for any period of time (or basically any similar site, which includes FB, Twitter, and even HN), has seen data consistency issues during high load (like periods of activism). Shards die or fall out of quorum, work queues get purged, etc. That's the reality of systems with a lot of very low value data. Eventually consistent, but also perpetually inconsistent.

Which is a bit surprising since nowadays an entire reddit instance could fit on a single server rack.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by izoow »

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'…

I'm not sure about the specifics of GDPR, but it could be argued that even your style of writing personally identifies you. There are even projects that do just that to find alternate reddit accounts of people [1].

[1] https://github.com/jabraunlin/reddit-user-id

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by nik736 »

reustle wrote: post #58
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…

FIND ALL COMMENTS WHERE USER = 12345 AND UPDATED % is > 90%; REVERT ALL COMMENTS

Yes, but that's even crazier when the platform is basically messing with your posts and comments. That's not what a community is. They can generate content that fits their content strategy themselve then, this way they don't need users!

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by llm_nerd »

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?

Worth noting that HN has become a Reddit-refugee outpost so this will probably continue if not get worse.

See the other Reddit post (one about Reddit punting mods if they act against the interests of Reddit itself, which has always been true it's worth noting) with 100s of comments, folded into pages and pages of continuations.

I mean does anyone honestly seriously believe Reddit purposefully undeleted this guy's comments? Reddit suspends accounts en mass, and when they do they nuke their entire history of comments on the site [I have been corrected, though I've strangely seen accounts get removed and all of their comments disappear too, though maybe they're running a script]. Reddit just really doesn't care about this guy's comments as much as he thinks they do.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by Pyramus »

rurban wrote: post #52
fabian2k wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 is. See https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re... Only if your personal posts are important for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific research, historical research or statistical purposes where erasure is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of that processing.

No, you are confusing, say, a post, with its content. The content of a post does (in general) not relate to an identifiable person.

Re: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

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Post by m-p-3 »

nottorp wrote: post #57
scandinavian wrote: post #23

I really think they are just misunderstanding something. When I look at my profile, there's no comments, but I know there should be some. Isn't it more likely that when a subreddit you posted in goes private, the comments don't show up. The people in the linked thread ran the delete script after some subreddits went private. Now when some are made public again, so are their comments. Comments that were never deleted…

I don't think the delete function actually deletes anything. At best sets a flag. If i wrote public forum software, that's how I would do it and batch delete only comments that no one asked to undelete in at least a few months...

I doubt that is GDPR-compliant.
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