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I've been using Shreddit to edit and delete my reddit comments at 5pm every day. Couple of reasons: * Keeps me disinterested from caring about karma and makin

I've been using Shreddit to edit and delete my reddit comments at 5pm every day. Couple of reasons: * Keeps me disinterested from caring about karma and making comments all the time (basically keeps me a lurker) * Prevents me from adding any value to Reddit who I hate as a company * Since I don't leave comments it lessens the time I spend on the site * Once I had my first kid I realized that my discourses online were pretty "unkind" and I realized that if my kids looked me up as teenagers I'd be pretty embarrassed. I went on a spree of removing all traces of myself online and now I just use throwaway accounts everywhere.

semitones 3y ago
And now that you use throwaway accounts, do you continue to be unkind?
- oaththrowaway 3y ago
  I try my best to be constructive now
axblount 3y ago
If you feel that way (not saying you shouldn't), why don't you just stop using Reddit?
- oaththrowaway 3y ago
  I think once my mobile Reddit client stops working I'll stop using it.
remram 3y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to just... not comment? What's the benefit of leaving "[deleted]" comments all over, for you or anyone else?
- beerpls 3y ago
  That would take will power and fix the problem. In the modern world we download another app and then feel better despite nothing having changed.
  - remram 3y ago
    Why not an extension that makes the "save" button cancel instead? How can you put effort writing a comment if you know it will be deleted before people read it? How can you bear to keep your deleter enabled after you just posted a comment you thought interesting? And quite frankly, how do you justify going into other people's threads and littering them with useless "[deleted]" comments on purpose?
- oaththrowaway 3y ago
  Sometimes I need to ask a question on niche communities that don't have a Discord or forum
  - hackernewds 3y ago
    So you get value from the community, and leave a trail of confusing deleted comments for the others? What experience remains if everyone would do the same - Kant's "categorical imperative" would imply this is unethical.
    - oaththrowaway 3y ago
      I don't care about what someone else considers ethical. If I'm making Reddit worse it's all good with me
      - remram 3y ago
        Do you consider it ethical?
        oaththrowaway 3y ago
thomasahle 3y ago
Have you considered your kids might actually really want to know who their parents were when they were young? Even if it's embarrassing to you now, it might one day give them calm to know their parent was once an embarrasing teenager like everyone else.

semitones 3y ago

And now that you use throwaway accounts, do you continue to be unkind?

oaththrowaway 3y ago
I try my best to be constructive now

axblount 3y ago

If you feel that way (not saying you shouldn't), why don't you just stop using Reddit?

oaththrowaway 3y ago
I think once my mobile Reddit client stops working I'll stop using it.

remram 3y ago

Wouldn't it be easier to just... not comment? What's the benefit of leaving "[deleted]" comments all over, for you or anyone else?

beerpls 3y ago
That would take will power and fix the problem. In the modern world we download another app and then feel better despite nothing having changed.
- remram 3y ago
  Why not an extension that makes the "save" button cancel instead? How can you put effort writing a comment if you know it will be deleted before people read it? How can you bear to keep your deleter enabled after you just posted a comment you thought interesting? And quite frankly, how do you justify going into other people's threads and littering them with useless "[deleted]" comments on purpose?
oaththrowaway 3y ago
Sometimes I need to ask a question on niche communities that don't have a Discord or forum
- hackernewds 3y ago
  So you get value from the community, and leave a trail of confusing deleted comments for the others? What experience remains if everyone would do the same - Kant's "categorical imperative" would imply this is unethical.
  - oaththrowaway 3y ago
    I don't care about what someone else considers ethical. If I'm making Reddit worse it's all good with me
    - remram 3y ago
      Do you consider it ethical?
      - oaththrowaway 3y ago

thomasahle 3y ago

Have you considered your kids might actually really want to know who their parents were when they were young? Even if it's embarrassing to you now, it might one day give them calm to know their parent was once an embarrasing teenager like everyone else.