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Because there's no apparent benefit to reddit to bring back long deleted comments from arbitrary users. When you can think of no motive for malicious behavior,
by hackinthebochs 3y ago
Because there's no apparent benefit to reddit to bring back long deleted comments from arbitrary users. When you can think of no motive for malicious behavior, it is unparsimonious to assume malicious behavior.
- tremon 3y agoOf course there is a benefit. If users leave and remove their comments in protest, the data content available on Reddit is lowered, thereby lowering one of the IPO metrics. By un-deleting comments, the site's message count and user activity goes up, and thereby its IPO value.
- hackinthebochs 3y agoBut that's not what's happening (only those protesting having their comments restored).
- hammock 3y agoThe point stands…more comments, more content, more value, higher exit price
- nerdponx 3y agoIt's probably more about search engine results than the appearance of user account.
- brookst 3y agoInvestors aren’t that dumb, and if they were, your theory would create liability for securities fraud.
- Eisenstein 3y ago> Investors aren’t that dumb Maybe not individually, but this is an IPO and the P stands for Public, and when you aggregate everyone together then intelligence is a moot concept.
- Daneel_ 3y agoThere’s a huge incentive for Reddit to retain the comments - that’s their knowledge base. Without that a lot of their value is gone.
- hackinthebochs 3y agoRetain is not equivalent to undelete (making visible to everyone).
- Daneel_ 3y agoIf it’s not visible to other users or paying LLMs then it’s worthless. That’s what I’m getting at.
- reaperman 3y agoStrong incentive also exists to undelete.
- xp84 3y agoIt is in this case. They don't "need" the data themselves, they need Googlebot to see it to get traffic, which is their lifeblood both in general and for IPO. Have you heard the recent popular saying that Googling things barely even works anymore unless you append reddit to the query, which tends to bring up actual information instead of SEO trash?
- wongarsu 3y agoArguably the perception of the size of their knowledgebase is more important than the actual size, at least when talking about the upcoming IPO.