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The behavior of Reddit's management has inspired me to login through the series of accounts I have created over the years and delete all content I had contribut
by RainbowFriends 3y ago
The behavior of Reddit's management has inspired me to login through the series of accounts I have created over the years and delete all content I had contributed to. Doesn't management realize they are dependent on people like us to create content to generate value for the website?
- andrewmcwatters 3y agoYou'll want to destructively edit them, because apparently Reddit has recently started removing soft delete flags on some content, and it's not clear to people why besides possibly this blackout. It's not clear if Reddit has post history to rollback destructive edits.
- MiguelX413 3y agoThey must so people can't just edit away ban-worthy content
- cge 3y agoA substantial portion of my destructive edits (that were followed by deletion) appear to have now been rolled back, so it appears they do have the ability. These were recently deleted, however; there may be a time limit based on edit time.
- andrewmcwatters 3y agoThanks for sharing this.
- cactusplant7374 3y agoWhy were they rolled back? Your content was deemed important?
- hgsgm 3y agoSpez doesn't want comments that say "this comment was removed"; it hurts the IPO.
- brewdad 3y agoI opted for "This space intentionally left blank".
- leesalminen 3y agoI went with “Apollo didn’t kill itself”
- BatmanAoD 3y agoOkay, that's quite funny. Thank you.
- paulmd 3y agosame article says they're rolling back destructive edits
- almost_usual 3y agoAnything stopping you from editing them again?
- paulmd 3y agoif you've deleted the account, you no longer have a "handle" onto the comment. Depending on how they've done the restore, you may not have a handle on the comment even if you haven't deleted the account. Also, nothing stopping them from doing any of it again.
- ahahahahah 3y agoThis is false. Feel free to link to your source which will inevitably turn out to be someone who doesn't understand that the problem was actually in their deletion script or their understanding of it.
- hackernewds 3y agoYou're not hurting reddit. You're hurting also the community that could benefit from that information as you have, leaving a trail of [deleted]
- garciasn 3y agoLet's be honest: you're hurting both but the latter will find other ways to hold the information in a way which may not be bound to a corporation led by a lying weasel. u/spez needs to be removed as CEO.
- x0x0 3y agoIt's not going to matter imo. Once they accepted $1.3B in vc the die was cast. If it's not spez, it will be someone else. That said, ballooning reddit from 300 employees to 2k while simultaneously (somehow?) being largely incapable of delivering the mod tools promised for a decade, making the site or the app accessible, or improving their app past what a 1.5 person dev team can deliver certainly merits firing.
- neodymiumphish 3y agoMaybe they should replace all comments and posts with something like "This content was removed by the user in protest of Reddit's draconian actions toward third party developers."
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- hombre_fatal 3y agoI don't actually see that as something I should care about. My interest in chatting online on a forum isn't that my convo is available to everyone for eternity. I wouldn't even grant that access to old posts is a particularly useful part of a community. Even on HN it doesn't impact my day to day except to laugh at that dropbox rsync guy once a year.
- JCharante 3y ago
- MiguelX413 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36357164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36357164
- metadat 3y agoThis link has been marked as a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36354850 Still appreciate that you posted this, as otherwise I would never have seen it. Thank you!
- mkoryak 3y agoI have deleted all my comments and posts once. The way I did it required a lot of clicks, and I only had <100 things to delete. I couldnt find a better way to do it and neither will the average reddit user who has 1000s of comments.
- DylanDmitri 3y agoThere’s a number of scripts and tools on GitHub, findable by search engines. “Power Delete Suite” is the one I used.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoThe hurdle isn’t in finding Power Delete Suite. It’s in knowing what a Bookmarklet is, or what a bookmark is, or what a favorites bar is. Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.
- cand0r 3y agoI don't understand how this is related to the post you replied to
- unsupp0rted 3y agoPeople can easily find tools for bulk editing/deleting Reddit comments. They can't easily use them. Power Delete Suite is a bookmarklet. It's installed by clicking the link in the Github readme, going off to a CodePen, and clicking and dragging the resulting red button to the Favorites Tab. Probably greater than 90% of Redditors who are interested in using it wouldn't know how and would give up. I'm guessing the number is actually closer to 100% than it is to 90%. They don't have a mental model of what a bookmarklet is. They don't even have a mental model of what a URL or browser address bar is, much less dragging something to their favorites bar and going through two levels of redirects ("you got the latest version!"... "you need to be on your reddit profile page!") before they hit a page that lets them bulk delete comments.
- shmatt 3y agoI would question the monetization value of a user visiting reddit to read a 4 year old post about the best water pump, vs. "normie" users just flipping through their front page These investors are trying to make back 1.3 BILLION dollars sunk into a social network in the top 10 websites visited in the US that can't make money, they're rightfully trying to go full facebook/instagram/normie. What if I told you old.reddit only accounts for 10% or less of web users. That people are actually able to browse new reddit (I personally can't). tl;dr: For the content they're looking for, no they dont need someone like you who's deleting old posts they don't care about
- cityhall 3y agoSearch engines refer people to those old threads. Users who care enough and are tech savvy enough to delete their post histories are more likely to have made higher quality comments in the past answering tech support questions, reviewing products, etc. Those are the old threads that appear in search results and potentially draw in new users.
- mlyle 3y agoHaving old reddit history show up repeatedly in your search results is part of what creates perceived value to get on the treadmill and follow things happening now.
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- Dreako 3y agoI used a tampermonkey script to do this. They don't deserve any of it. Hope this puts and end to the site and their greed
- Defenestresque 3y agoHe does not care about users like you. >>I know I’m focusing a lot on that, but that’s where a lot of the protests in the community are focused. People appear to really love these apps. And, apparently, they think Reddit itself is not offering the experience they’re looking for. People talk about leaving the platform because they can’t use these apps. So if Reddit is going to shut down these apps, you’re going to lose people who loved Reddit, and that still doesn’t quite make sense. So I guess I’m wondering why hasn’t there been... >90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium. Why would we subsidize this small group? Why would we effectively pay them to use Reddit but not everybody else who also contributes to Reddit? Does that make sense? >These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free. And that free comes at the expense of our other users and our business. That’s what this is about. It can’t be free. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve... The entire article is just so bizarre and needlessly hostile that I'm amazed they're allowing him to do interviews.
- tim333 3y agoI read the article and Huffman seems quite reasonable. Basically that they are asking profit making apps like Apollo to cover server costs, which seems not ridiculous if Reddit is loss making and Apollo profit making. I get the impression that some people who say they don't like corporate doublespeak are upset because Huffman just says pay or move on instead of doing the doublespeak. My biases - I did his python course and thought he seemed ok, also I use old reddit on the laptop and it works fine.
- ZephyrBlu 3y agoMy dude, server costs are a tiny fraction of what they are charging for API access. One API call probably costs on the order of a millionth of a cent if not less. The infrastructure costs of running a server are extremely cheap.
- lavp 3y agoThird party apps aren’t upset that their free API access is getting charged; it’s the ridiculously high price, along with very short notices that make it painfully obvious of Reddit’s intention to permanently encapsulate all traffic in-house.