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I'm -> <- this close to deleting all the posts in my 15 year old reddit account. It's not just moderators they are losing.

by marcod 3y ago

ghayes 3y ago
Per another thread, it appears Reddit is rapidly undeleting such posts.
- fluidcruft 3y ago
  Sounds likely illegal if true.
  - parrellel 3y ago
    They definitely undeleted all mine this morning. Waiting to see if they come back again.
    - fluidcruft 3y ago
      In my experience Reddit seems to have various different cache/worker servers and it can takes a while for things to fully propagate. But they could be so overloaded the deletes are silently failing.
      - parrellel 3y ago
        Check out the other thread. It looks like they just globally zeroed their is_post_deleted column.
        fluidcruft 3y ago
        Things I deleted are still [deleted]. Sounds like a bunch of FUD and rdrama.net trolling.
        parrellel 3y ago
        Well, a decent number of people have been hit by it, from the looks of it. I just got to spend a bit of my morning re-deleting things. How much have you deleted, an odd post, or do you have an auto-deleter?
        fluidcruft 3y ago
        I haven't deleted anything recently. Delete not working temporarily could just be denial of service or the scripts may not work anymore. Reddit made it a lot more difficult for autodelete scripts a while ago, it's not something new or some recent intervention.
        parrellel 3y ago
        Are the posts you deleted currently still deleted? Were they deleted within the last 5ish years?
        fluidcruft 3y ago
        Yes. And yes. In fact I remembered a post I deleted two weeks ago and it's still gone.
        parrellel 3y ago
        Ok, so it's definitely more complicated then a global flag change. I killed my posts manually and they were gone for at least a day and a half. So, undo deleted posts on any account that axed at least N posts in the last week? Something like that? Well, if the posts come back again, I guess I'll just get in an edit war with them. Disgusting behavior. Thanks for the data point! EDIT: Huh, so now about a dozen have come back. I wonder if they'll trickle back in, and what the thresholds are... I'm going to have to clear the account in batches of five or something aren't I.
        fluidcruft 3y ago
- deleted 3y ago
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pixelpoet 3y ago
They don't give a shit about us (14 year old account here), they've already gotten everything. What they want is the endless hordes of TikTok normies posting animated gifs and HD user pics etc. And it's working. The old reddit we loved is never coming back.
- Breza 3y ago
  I think you're right. I've been active on Reddit for years. It has always been a fractious collection of niche communities. It can be hard for an outsider to navigate. For all our complaining that Reddit is turning its back on its users, what makes us think they want to keep us around? I remember when Facebook started making changes so it could appeal to people outside of a handful of college campuses. There was a lot of complaining, but Facebook grew massively as a result. This moment could be remembered either as Reddit's "own goal" moment where they kill their platform, or their "MTV stops playing music videos" moment where they redefine who they are.

I'm -> <- this close to deleting all the posts in my 15 year old reddit account. It's not just moderators they are losing.

by marcod 3y ago

I'm -> <- this close to deleting all the posts in my 15 year old reddit account. It's not just moderators they are losing.

ghayes 3y ago

Per another thread, it appears Reddit is rapidly undeleting such posts.

fluidcruft 3y ago
Sounds likely illegal if true.
- parrellel 3y ago
  They definitely undeleted all mine this morning. Waiting to see if they come back again.
  - fluidcruft 3y ago
    In my experience Reddit seems to have various different cache/worker servers and it can takes a while for things to fully propagate. But they could be so overloaded the deletes are silently failing.
    - parrellel 3y ago
      Check out the other thread. It looks like they just globally zeroed their is_post_deleted column.
      - fluidcruft 3y ago
        Things I deleted are still [deleted]. Sounds like a bunch of FUD and rdrama.net trolling.
        parrellel 3y ago
        Well, a decent number of people have been hit by it, from the looks of it. I just got to spend a bit of my morning re-deleting things. How much have you deleted, an odd post, or do you have an auto-deleter?
        fluidcruft 3y ago
        I haven't deleted anything recently. Delete not working temporarily could just be denial of service or the scripts may not work anymore. Reddit made it a lot more difficult for autodelete scripts a while ago, it's not something new or some recent intervention.
        parrellel 3y ago
        Are the posts you deleted currently still deleted? Were they deleted within the last 5ish years?
        fluidcruft 3y ago
        Yes. And yes. In fact I remembered a post I deleted two weeks ago and it's still gone.
        parrellel 3y ago
        Ok, so it's definitely more complicated then a global flag change. I killed my posts manually and they were gone for at least a day and a half. So, undo deleted posts on any account that axed at least N posts in the last week? Something like that? Well, if the posts come back again, I guess I'll just get in an edit war with them. Disgusting behavior. Thanks for the data point! EDIT: Huh, so now about a dozen have come back. I wonder if they'll trickle back in, and what the thresholds are... I'm going to have to clear the account in batches of five or something aren't I.
        fluidcruft 3y ago
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pixelpoet 3y ago

They don't give a shit about us (14 year old account here), they've already gotten everything. What they want is the endless hordes of TikTok normies posting animated gifs and HD user pics etc. And it's working. The old reddit we loved is never coming back.

Breza 3y ago
I think you're right. I've been active on Reddit for years. It has always been a fractious collection of niche communities. It can be hard for an outsider to navigate. For all our complaining that Reddit is turning its back on its users, what makes us think they want to keep us around? I remember when Facebook started making changes so it could appeal to people outside of a handful of college campuses. There was a lot of complaining, but Facebook grew massively as a result. This moment could be remembered either as Reddit's "own goal" moment where they kill their platform, or their "MTV stops playing music videos" moment where they redefine who they are.