Used a script to overwrite old comments to finalize my switch to Lemmy, and got this message from one of the subreddit that i commented.
Yes my intention is to annoy and create awareness. After i delete my account, Reddit is not going to get to keep my pearls of wisdom, or shenanigans. I hope more people edit their old comments to something like [moved to Lemmy].
Waybackmachine has your comments anyway so there’s no point in deleting them.
The hottest of hot takes.
Yeah let me just fire up the ol wayback machine every time I want to read a reddit comment lol
Worth noting that if you use Reddit exclusively via wayback and go back like a decade you’ll probably have a more enjoyable experience.
When half the content was Advice Animals? Debatable.
Or “all the things”, “bacon narwhal midnight”, and weird places to cum stories?
Back in my day we had to read through a 10-panel rage comic just to get the dumbest take imaginable
/r/fuuuuuu I think was called or something was one of the first subs I subscribed to back in the day, then I unsubbed after some time because I realized it was draining my IQ
Do you even ice soap chili?
I’m still trying to figure out why I’m nostalgic for those days.
You mean “the bullshittiest of fake takes”
It’s not a hot take if they’re lying
So people can have the benefit of old helpful comments without having to visit reddit? Sounds like a plus.
Yup. Totally doesn’t sound desperate.
You should tell them you’d rather people go to those other websites to see your comments than to give Reddit their business.
I wouldn’t bother writing replies to a bot, but if it makes you feel better.
It says you can contact the moderators if you have any questions right at the bottom.
I’ll be honest, I’m a little confused. Is it removing the comment you overwrote, or another comment?
The mods on the history sub have always been shit. No surprise they’d setup a smarmy bot response.
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If you’re in the EU you can send a GDPR data takedown request, then if they fail to honor it you may be able to get a kickback from any fines they get slapped with
Yeah I used PowerDeleteSuite to “edit” and “delete” all my history, and it sure looked like it worked. When I go to my user profile and look under posts and comments nothing is there, but I am getting replies on comments from years ago (which is already stupid on its own) and there’s my comment, completely unedited and public🙃
Edit: I just checked mine and a bunch of comments were back. Turns out a few subs must have come out of private.
Reminder that just because it came from a mod or admin, doesn’t mean they aren’t completely and entirely wrong. Whoever programmed this response just objectively wrong here. Sometimes it’ll just straight perma ban you instead knowing you’re trying to mass delete your posts lol.
I think it is worth it to save the content on reddit. I don’t think it is worth it to save reddit. That’s why I’ve joined the ArchiveTeam’s effort, so you can safely delete and overwrite you posts and comments.
At least it helped delete a post for you? I guess?
Wow are they desperate.
Even if there are alternative ways to see the content of the comments, making it more difficult to access that content still does something and isn’t pointless. The average person isn’t going to go through the trouble of checking the wayback machine or some other external archive, or download any add-ons or what have you to undelete or unedit comments. Not unless they already know that the comment said something they’re interested in enough to put in that extra effort, which is going to be a pretty small selection of people who might but probably won’t look into your comments unprompted to begin with anyway.
I got insta banned from /r/steamdeck when I overwrote a comment. I didn’t actually break any sub rules as far as I could tell… I messaged them to thank them for helping to galvanize my decision to vacate the premises
You’re hurting users more than Reddit, and it’s totally not like Archive.is and the Internet Archive exists
There’s no Reddit without users. And archive sites don’t allow Reddit to profit from ads. The information will still be out there somewhere if someone wants to read your old posts badly enough, but Reddit won’t profit from your contributions - which is exactly what they should expect after showing their utter disregard for the people who made them money.
> There’s no Reddit without users. And archive sites don’t allow Reddit to profit from ads.
And? Do you really think enough users will move to Lemmy that significantly hurts Reddit?
> The information will still be out there somewhere if someone wants to read your old posts badly enough, but Reddit won’t profit from your contributions
They’ll profit from somebody else’s contributions, and they can easily revert any deletions made by OP.
So wait, if they can revert any changes then how are things being harmed?
Somebody needs to read up on the history of Digg.
>implying I don’t already know
I have read up on the history of Digg multiple times, do better next time :marseysleep:
Bonkers!! I can’t believe how angry so many people are about people switching platforms 🙄
I mean it seems pretty clear to me that it’s not the switching platforms bit that they’re annoyed with.
I did the same before also deleting the comments and posts and some of the subreddits perm banned my user. I deleted the user a few days later anyway so no loss.
That’s the point… we don’t want them accessing our comments on Reddit. Nobody gives a fuck about our comments appearing on some other archive website… What a ridiculous take someone programmed into this bot.
The fact that this bot exists at all makes me think this is actually a bigger problem for Reddit than I would have guessed.
It seems odd that they reference way back machine. Almost like they don’t have proper backups and take their undelete data from archive.org. Considering how much a shitshow most of reddit is.
This bot is controlled by mods, rather than admins.
That’s the automod for the sub in question. It’s not a reddit wide bot in this case.
Of course, it could be that reddit’s admins are helping mods make these kinds of reactions. I’d believe that. But the account itself in question (automoderator) doesn’t tell us anything about how reddit’s admins feel.
