Fuck. I really don’t like this.
So many trauma and support subreddits get deeply personal and identifying posts and comments about horrific shit people (me included) lived through and were trying to cope with, which got deleted several hours after posting for privacy reasons.
If this content gets revived by reddit, it puts a lot of vulnerable people in danger as it this type of ‘content’ is often harvested by users of other platforms who share these stories with huge audiences.
Someone mentioned invoking GDPR’s right to be forgotten. Although comments are not strictly personal information, it could still work. I think I’ll try it soon.
they are your IP that you can rescind permission to publish at any time
I don’t think they can just restore all comments and bypass the GDPR, that would be insane. It’s a very serious law in Europe.
Now I’m thankful I’ve been editing and then deleting them for half a year.
I just deleted Apollo off my phone. I loved Apollo but I kept mindlessly opening it, I just can’t use Reddit anymore. I’m here now. I had a 17 year Reddit badge, but no more.
This is the first morning I haven’t had any zombie comments pop back up on my account.
Funny thing I noticed was if I tried to edit my comments to “fuck you piss baby spez”, it would log me out every few seconds and force me to log back in. But editing with random words worked fine. looks like they have some filtering set up to protect his ego lol.
Edit: I take that back. Now there’s a bunch of year old, unedited, comments popped back up in there. Oh well, redact.dev goes brrrrrrr
This is why you use the edit THEN delete option in Power Delete Suite instead of just delete. All my restored comments will say “fuck you spez”.
I used edit -> delete with Redact and they reverted my edits and restored my posts (in high population subreddits, it seems, but not smaller population ones).
I’ve gone back in and manually edited and deleted them by hand and they appear gone so far.
This will make Reddit worse. Some people will start to edit their comments to make them nonsense. Trust will erode further. Search will slowly become nonfunctional.
From a users perspective, coming across a nonsensical thread (because comments have been edited), is much worse than see deleted comments. Not only does trust disappear people, but people become angry that the comments are outright random/bizarre/lies.deleted by creator
What’s more likely is there was a database syncing issue
More likely?
No what’s more likely is that they want to show a lot of posts and comments in their statistics before they go public. They are trying to make the protests look like it’s nothing.
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