ghglkl

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   by ghglkl 3y ago

   > Reddit suspends accounts en mass, and when they do they nuke their entire history of comments on the site. That's not quite true, if an account is permanently suspended, the user page is unavailable for viewing, but the comments s
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   by ghglkl 3y ago

   Pushshift only blocked such data from being queried via their API. All these users' posts and comments are still in their data dumps, which now have tens of thousands of copies after being released as torrents.
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   by ghglkl 3y ago

   Am I the only one here who thinks it is actually quite reasonable to restore such comments? It's equivalent to a librarian restoring some of their books that have been vandalised by a disgruntled author.