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Wrong. If the post is accumulating negative points, author should be able to delete it.
by AlbertCory 3y ago
Wrong. If the post is accumulating negative points, author should be able to delete it.
- whelp_24 3y agowhy?
- bee_rider 3y agoIt destroys the conversation. It would be nice to be able to disown a comment, instead. Comments that accidentally reveal personal information, that would be a nice use-case for deletion. But on the other hand, nothing can be deleted from the internet, so having the button there could add a false sense of security.
- AlbertCory 3y ago> nothing can be deleted from the internet In theory that's true; anything Donald Trump says, for instance, can never be deleted. In practice, if someone on Reddit deletes their post, it's extremely unlikely you'll be able to recover it. It's not a probability of zero, but pretty close to it. You could file a lawsuit and then Reddit will have to find it, but otherwise, it's gone.
- Lacerda69 3y ago>You could file a lawsuit and then Reddit will have to find it I doubt that unless it's criminal evidence or something
- AlbertCory 3y agoCivil suits have Discovery, too.
- slikrick 3y agoyou should really look into lost media, stuff gets lost on the internet all the time. and that's just the stuff people are actually caring to look for
- bee_rider 3y agoThis is a totally unrelated issue. A file on the internet obviously could be backed up by anyone, so deleting things from the internet does not verifiably restore your privacy. A file on the internet might not be publicly accessible in the future. But that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been backed up privately. It is the worst of both worlds.
- AlbertCory 3y agoYou are both talking about what could happen. Indeed it could. Probably it won't, though, for most people.
- bee_rider 3y agoMany Reddit posts were automatically backed up by various services before the recent API changes. https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-see-deleted-reddit-posts/ https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-see-deleted-reddit-posts/
- AlbertCory 3y agoBut not anymore?
- bee_rider 3y agoI mean I’m not an expert on how these sites work, but it looks like pushshift.io was collecting Reddit posts before the API access removed. Posts made after the API access was removed would not be in Pushshift. Posts made before, are still in Pushshift. Deleting a post from the site doesn’t remove it from Pushshift. So… kinda not anymore? At least not publicly, using the officially supported API.
- AlbertCory 3y agoThanks, I'm definitely not saying you can count on something being gone. But you also can't count on being able to recover it.