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This reminds me to nuke my Reddit account of 14 years. This extension edits each comment/post to be blank, and then deletes them. https://chrome.google.com/web

This reminds me to nuke my Reddit account of 14 years. This extension edits each comment/post to be blank, and then deletes them. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-reddit-history/aclagjkmidmkcdhkhlicmgkgmpgccaod?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nuke-reddit-histor...

crossroadsguy 5y ago
Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. But that’s still way better than HN. At least on reddit you can easily delete posts and accounts.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago
  > Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. Including Archive.org. > But that’s still way better than HN. At least on reddit you can easily delete posts and accounts. This is a topic where the interests of the community and the needs of an individual come in conflict, and I don't think there's an universally agreed-on standard practice. By community I explicitly do not mean the platform that's hosting it, though they have interests desires too - just the collection of people reading and posting. A deleted comment in the middle of a thread is often extremely disruptive, as everything below it in hierarchy (and other locations linking to it) loses crucial context. Being able to distance yourself from your comments (through deleting the account, and thus making the comments show a "deleted user" as author), but not to delete the comments themselves, balances these competing interests properly. For HN per se, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799 for mod take on the topic.
  - crossroadsguy 5y ago
    If a user wants to delete the comment user should be allowed to delete the comment or account. Period! Reasons like community interest are not strong or proper imho. Also there’s no information about whether HN logs user IPs or any other info. Or info about how many IPs are logged. Whether they log all the IPs or last K IPs. For how long those IPs are stored.
- reustle 5y ago
  > Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. It's less about scrubbing it from the internet, but scrubbing it from Reddit (or twitter, fb, etc) themselves. Even if some obscure content farm is hosting the comment, it's still a small fraction of visitors.
  - Sebb767 5y ago
    Yes, but that fraction is exactly the one you want to avoid. Someone who just reads a thread or searches for a solution will move on unhappy. Someone who wants to find dirt on you will dig through these archives and mirrors.
    - reustle 5y ago
      No dirt to hide, just trying to weaken the machine that Reddit has become.
thinkingemote 5y ago
theres a limit for time (6 months?) for these via the website, and via the API theres a limit of 2000 or so latest comments, with no way to get the list of latest comments re-populated from older ones when your comments do get deleted. (They basically have a cassandra db for all the latest stuff, and an read only db for the old stuff. So the live db never gets updated from the old db.) What this means is that your a lot of old comments and submissions are unable to be deleted.
- reustle 5y ago
  Do you have a source on this? I'd love to read more. It has already been running for a while now, and has gone back >4 years. I'm able to go in manually as well and modify / delete old comments. I've checked via incognito that they are actually modified, and then deleted.
  - thinkingemote 5y ago
    I think I read it on their API docs, and maybe on their dev support subreddit. So the time limit is fine for old comments if you can get them via the API, but the API will only retrieve a certain amount (I think 2K) of comments. Maybe the website limit was just adding new ones?
MrGilbert 5y ago
I understand the incentive, but it reminds me of https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/ - I had it twice in the past that a good reply to a question was lost, because the commenter deleted its comment.
- willis936 5y ago
  I think that's part of the incentive. If the most valuable users actively devalue the platform, maybe people will move on.
JohnWhigham 5y ago
If you know where to look, you could probably sell that account for a small chunk of change. Of course it'd be use for linkspamming purposes, but hey, if you really hate reddit, that'd be a way to watch your old "self" sow seeds of destruction.

crossroadsguy 5y ago

Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. But that’s still way better than HN. At least on reddit you can easily delete posts and accounts.

TeMPOraL 5y ago
> Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. Including Archive.org. > But that’s still way better than HN. At least on reddit you can easily delete posts and accounts. This is a topic where the interests of the community and the needs of an individual come in conflict, and I don't think there's an universally agreed-on standard practice. By community I explicitly do not mean the platform that's hosting it, though they have interests desires too - just the collection of people reading and posting. A deleted comment in the middle of a thread is often extremely disruptive, as everything below it in hierarchy (and other locations linking to it) loses crucial context. Being able to distance yourself from your comments (through deleting the account, and thus making the comments show a "deleted user" as author), but not to delete the comments themselves, balances these competing interests properly. For HN per se, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623799 for mod take on the topic.
- crossroadsguy 5y ago
  If a user wants to delete the comment user should be allowed to delete the comment or account. Period! Reasons like community interest are not strong or proper imho. Also there’s no information about whether HN logs user IPs or any other info. Or info about how many IPs are logged. Whether they log all the IPs or last K IPs. For how long those IPs are stored.
reustle 5y ago
> Then you’ll have to request multiple people who run services that backs up every reddit post. It's less about scrubbing it from the internet, but scrubbing it from Reddit (or twitter, fb, etc) themselves. Even if some obscure content farm is hosting the comment, it's still a small fraction of visitors.
- Sebb767 5y ago
  Yes, but that fraction is exactly the one you want to avoid. Someone who just reads a thread or searches for a solution will move on unhappy. Someone who wants to find dirt on you will dig through these archives and mirrors.
  - reustle 5y ago
    No dirt to hide, just trying to weaken the machine that Reddit has become.

thinkingemote 5y ago

theres a limit for time (6 months?) for these via the website, and via the API theres a limit of 2000 or so latest comments, with no way to get the list of latest comments re-populated from older ones when your comments do get deleted. (They basically have a cassandra db for all the latest stuff, and an read only db for the old stuff. So the live db never gets updated from the old db.) What this means is that your a lot of old comments and submissions are unable to be deleted.

reustle 5y ago
Do you have a source on this? I'd love to read more. It has already been running for a while now, and has gone back >4 years. I'm able to go in manually as well and modify / delete old comments. I've checked via incognito that they are actually modified, and then deleted.
- thinkingemote 5y ago
  I think I read it on their API docs, and maybe on their dev support subreddit. So the time limit is fine for old comments if you can get them via the API, but the API will only retrieve a certain amount (I think 2K) of comments. Maybe the website limit was just adding new ones?

MrGilbert 5y ago

I understand the incentive, but it reminds me of https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/ - I had it twice in the past that a good reply to a question was lost, because the commenter deleted its comment.

willis936 5y ago
I think that's part of the incentive. If the most valuable users actively devalue the platform, maybe people will move on.

JohnWhigham 5y ago

If you know where to look, you could probably sell that account for a small chunk of change. Of course it'd be use for linkspamming purposes, but hey, if you really hate reddit, that'd be a way to watch your old "self" sow seeds of destruction.