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I noticed they logged me out when I happened on a link recently. I don't think this change will make me log back in. The value of the site has already crashed,

I noticed they logged me out when I happened on a link recently. I don't think this change will make me log back in. The value of the site has already crashed, now the only question is which site will manage to capture the mainstream link/image discussion next. > This is because appending site: reddit.com to a search query is basically a surefire way to find results written by genuine humans. This hasn't been true for a while now. A lot of what you find on reddit these days feels incredibly fake. It's like there should be a variant of Goodhart's law: Once a forum becomes known for genuine human writing it stops being a forum for genuine human writing.

Klonoar 3mo ago
Reddit has almost 20 years of comments. You could certainly argue that it's less true now that there's legitimate people commenting, but there are years old threads on there with very helpful and valuable information that you can only really find via some incantations of Google search.
- account42 3mo ago
  Have you ever looked at an old reddit comment thread. + Hey how do you do thing? | -+ [deleted] | -+ Thanks, that's just what I needed.
  - doubled112 3mo ago
    Some of that was a reaction to Reddit closing the APIs and blocking apps.
    - pndy 3mo ago
      IIRC that was also done in a fear that they'll start using comments to train AI. And some users claimed that their manually removed comments from weeks to years ago reappeared again.
  - mothballed 3mo ago
    Reddit will delete anything remotely controversial if it contains referenced facts. They banned and deleted my account for simply stating the 5th amendment prohibits requiring incriminating yourself to exercise a right. An Ivy League educated lawyer dug up the comment one year after I posted it, told reddit I was distributing illegal legal advice, and had my whole account nuked.
    - Rebelgecko 3mo ago
      Which lawyer?
    - stevenwoo 3mo ago
      I got suspended for criticizing the state of Israel’s treatment of civilians in occupied territories, but they didn’t delete my account, though I stopped logging in after a week. (Logging in retains your subscriptions). I've seen plenty of similar comments to mine so I assume it was the work of some oddball who I responded to that has an connection to somebody who works there so they could pull some strings to suspend my account.
      - inigyou 3mo ago
        It isn't safe to criticise Israel on nearly any online platform. You should only ever do it with a throwaway account and a VPN, and Reddit bans VPNs.
        user43928 3mo ago
        At the same time Reddit was hosting Arabic speaking subreddits with communities that openly support terrorist groups. Considering that some of the content may well be illegal in a few EU countries, I was surprised Reddit does not more proactively nuke it to protect themselves.
      - pndy 3mo ago
        > Logging in retains your subscriptions I'm sorry, is that something that happen recently? Because when I had an account there, subscriptions were permanent
  - toomuchtodo 3mo ago
    https://github.com/Tryhard-cs/reddit-download-tool https://github.com/Tryhard-cs/reddit-download-tool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951669 Treat Reddit as the temporary object storage system that it is.
  - hurfdurf 3mo ago
    Answered questions becoming unanswered is such an annoying thing. I'd prefer users who are willing to delete their comments day, weeks, months, years later to not reply at all and let someone else answer. And why Reddit, or anybody else, allows modifying comments after such a long time is beyond me. EDIT: These days there are even active users who are wiping their comment history on a regular basis. Very strange mindset.
  - inigyou 3mo ago
    or "furiously sleep ideas green colorless". Reddit once started banning users for deleting their own comments, so people started editing them to random words instead.
- dagurp 3mo ago
  More than 20 years
  - Klonoar 3mo ago
    Put a fork in me, I'm done.
- VCFundedGenYer 3mo ago
  Reddit HAD almost 20 years of comments, until about three years ago when they started to lock down APIs, remove moderators, and make poor choices. Users reacted accordingly and now you will just see a whole lot of [deleted] or comment content replaced with garbage data. It's no longer an archive or wealth of information it once was.
  - Klonoar 3mo ago
    That redacted amount is absolutely miniscule and blown out of proportion.
    - tumult 3mo ago
      Not in my experience. I see it almost every time I end up in a reddit thread from search results. I've recently started demoting it in Kagi. It's just not as good as it used to be. Newer threads tend to be full of junk and bots.
    - ikr678 3mo ago
      I see it quite often in reddit threads that appear in my google search results for obscure technical/hardware issues. The original helpful comments were probably provided by switched-on users of whatever subreddit, and those same users are the ones most likely to nuke/overwrite their comment history when they leave the site.
    - VCFundedGenYer 3mo ago
      Please provide data on your claim.
  - alex1138 3mo ago
    [This comment removed due to protest of Reddit's API changes]
- davkan 3mo ago
  The rest of the internet is so enshittified by SEO garbage that searching for a problem you’re having and appending reddit is the only way to get a quick answer without scrolling for 5 pages down an article.
  - inigyou 3mo ago
    Then you're getting a marketing bot half the time.
    - davkan 3mo ago
      I went to look up how to disable shipped results in facebook marketplace and non Reddit results were all multi page articles. Even if bots are marketing on Reddit at least it’s in short form and without a deluge of ads.
Razengan 3mo ago
> The value of the site has already crashed Reddit, the site whose CEO edited the comments of other users, autobans people for saying "fuck spez" (it's fun, try it), and claims the right to all content posted by users and sells it for AI training?
- deleted 3mo ago
  [deleted]
benoau 3mo ago
When you do log in you will probably see that accounts all but require a verified email now, if you didn't set one up your account will be frozen until you do a password reset FoR sEcURiTy which necessitates adding an email lmao.

Klonoar 3mo ago

Reddit has almost 20 years of comments. You could certainly argue that it's less true now that there's legitimate people commenting, but there are years old threads on there with very helpful and valuable information that you can only really find via some incantations of Google search.

account42 3mo ago
Have you ever looked at an old reddit comment thread. + Hey how do you do thing? | -+ [deleted] | -+ Thanks, that's just what I needed.
- doubled112 3mo ago
  Some of that was a reaction to Reddit closing the APIs and blocking apps.
  - pndy 3mo ago
    IIRC that was also done in a fear that they'll start using comments to train AI. And some users claimed that their manually removed comments from weeks to years ago reappeared again.
- mothballed 3mo ago
  Reddit will delete anything remotely controversial if it contains referenced facts. They banned and deleted my account for simply stating the 5th amendment prohibits requiring incriminating yourself to exercise a right. An Ivy League educated lawyer dug up the comment one year after I posted it, told reddit I was distributing illegal legal advice, and had my whole account nuked.
  - Rebelgecko 3mo ago
    Which lawyer?
  - stevenwoo 3mo ago
    I got suspended for criticizing the state of Israel’s treatment of civilians in occupied territories, but they didn’t delete my account, though I stopped logging in after a week. (Logging in retains your subscriptions). I've seen plenty of similar comments to mine so I assume it was the work of some oddball who I responded to that has an connection to somebody who works there so they could pull some strings to suspend my account.
    - inigyou 3mo ago
      It isn't safe to criticise Israel on nearly any online platform. You should only ever do it with a throwaway account and a VPN, and Reddit bans VPNs.
      - user43928 3mo ago
        At the same time Reddit was hosting Arabic speaking subreddits with communities that openly support terrorist groups. Considering that some of the content may well be illegal in a few EU countries, I was surprised Reddit does not more proactively nuke it to protect themselves.
    - pndy 3mo ago
      > Logging in retains your subscriptions I'm sorry, is that something that happen recently? Because when I had an account there, subscriptions were permanent
- toomuchtodo 3mo ago
  https://github.com/Tryhard-cs/reddit-download-tool https://github.com/Tryhard-cs/reddit-download-tool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951669 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951669 Treat Reddit as the temporary object storage system that it is.
- hurfdurf 3mo ago
  Answered questions becoming unanswered is such an annoying thing. I'd prefer users who are willing to delete their comments day, weeks, months, years later to not reply at all and let someone else answer. And why Reddit, or anybody else, allows modifying comments after such a long time is beyond me. EDIT: These days there are even active users who are wiping their comment history on a regular basis. Very strange mindset.
- inigyou 3mo ago
  or "furiously sleep ideas green colorless". Reddit once started banning users for deleting their own comments, so people started editing them to random words instead.
dagurp 3mo ago
More than 20 years
- Klonoar 3mo ago
  Put a fork in me, I'm done.
VCFundedGenYer 3mo ago
Reddit HAD almost 20 years of comments, until about three years ago when they started to lock down APIs, remove moderators, and make poor choices. Users reacted accordingly and now you will just see a whole lot of [deleted] or comment content replaced with garbage data. It's no longer an archive or wealth of information it once was.
- Klonoar 3mo ago
  That redacted amount is absolutely miniscule and blown out of proportion.
  - tumult 3mo ago
    Not in my experience. I see it almost every time I end up in a reddit thread from search results. I've recently started demoting it in Kagi. It's just not as good as it used to be. Newer threads tend to be full of junk and bots.
  - ikr678 3mo ago
    I see it quite often in reddit threads that appear in my google search results for obscure technical/hardware issues. The original helpful comments were probably provided by switched-on users of whatever subreddit, and those same users are the ones most likely to nuke/overwrite their comment history when they leave the site.
  - VCFundedGenYer 3mo ago
    Please provide data on your claim.
- alex1138 3mo ago
  [This comment removed due to protest of Reddit's API changes]
davkan 3mo ago
The rest of the internet is so enshittified by SEO garbage that searching for a problem you’re having and appending reddit is the only way to get a quick answer without scrolling for 5 pages down an article.
- inigyou 3mo ago
  Then you're getting a marketing bot half the time.
  - davkan 3mo ago
    I went to look up how to disable shipped results in facebook marketplace and non Reddit results were all multi page articles. Even if bots are marketing on Reddit at least it’s in short form and without a deluge of ads.

Razengan 3mo ago

> The value of the site has already crashed Reddit, the site whose CEO edited the comments of other users, autobans people for saying "fuck spez" (it's fun, try it), and claims the right to all content posted by users and sells it for AI training?

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benoau 3mo ago

When you do log in you will probably see that accounts all but require a verified email now, if you didn't set one up your account will be frozen until you do a password reset FoR sEcURiTy which necessitates adding an email lmao.