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Have you ever looked at an old reddit comment thread. + Hey how do you do thing? | -+ [deleted] | -+ Thanks, that's just what I needed.
by account42 3mo ago
Have you ever looked at an old reddit comment thread.
+ Hey how do you do thing?
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-+ [deleted]
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-+ Thanks, that's just what I needed.
- doubled112 3mo agoSome of that was a reaction to Reddit closing the APIs and blocking apps.
- pndy 3mo agoIIRC 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 agoReddit 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 agoWhich lawyer?
- stevenwoo 3mo agoI 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 agoIt 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 agoAt 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
- stevenwoo 3mo agoWhat I meant was I was permanently banned so I can still login and get notifications of responses to my commments, just could not vote or change any of my subscriptions.
- markdown 3mo agoNah, it's rare to see [deleted]. More common is seeing "tumble cup and he ran flew tree" due to users using anonymizing apps to remove their old data.
- dredmorbius 3mo agoReddit users also very frequently delete accounts and/or content.
- retired 3mo agoAfter a shadow ban none of my old comments were visible anywhere on Reddit. So I deleted all my content. If people can’t view my content, why have it online?
- hparadiz 3mo agoMy real name account got banned for quoting something someone else said. Pretty hilarious in hindsight.
- toomuchtodo 3mo agohttps://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 agoAnswered 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 agoor "furiously sleep ideas green colorless". Reddit once started banning users for deleting their own comments, so people started editing them to random words instead.