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You're not hurting reddit. You're hurting also the community that could benefit from that information as you have, leaving a trail of [deleted]
by hackernewds 3y ago
You'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."
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- 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 agoGood. That community should die because reddit is leeching on it. We don't negotiate with terrorists.
- jacquesm 3y agoTerrorists? I must have missed something.
- JCharante 3y agoMore of an analogy. If you kidnap US citizens then (officially) the US won't negotiate with terrorists to set the hostages free. People shouldn't try negotiating with reddit admins.
- jacquesm 3y agoBecause they took someone hostage? Seriously, even as an analogy that is ridiculous.
- omniglottal 3y agoBecause they took everyone's IP hostage - please, do try to follow the conversation.
- the-printer 3y agoI think that the jest here is warranted. To evoke such an analogy under these relatively futile circumstances is odd.
- ayemel 3y agoIt’s not odd at all, it’s a common saying in situations like this or even less “serious” situations.
- sowbug 3y ago
- idlewords 3y agoHopefully Reddit will exercise the prerogative to hit the undelete key. The idea that forum posts belong to the author in perpetuity is a weird mental hangup; forum posts are a conversation and after a certain grace period, contributors should not have the right to memory-hole the past.
- AlexandrB 3y agoDepending on jurisdiction, they literally do have that right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
- greyface- 3y agoDo you feel the same way about public posts on social bookmarking sites? (If yes, you might want to update your FAQ and privacy policy.)
- idlewords 3y agoNo, I think it applies to public forum conversations, like the one we are having. You shouldn't have the right to prevent future generations from seeing how I zinged you good.
- more_corn 3y agoThat’s the point. Reddit turned on the community. So people want to remove their contributions to the community. If everyone did so there’d be nothing left.