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I was searching a message board for some info recently. I found a post with the same question but there was no answer. Eventually I found another post with the answer. So I went back to the first post and linked to the answer.
Dear internet, you’re welcome.
I’ve been having similar issues, and when I am given an answer or find it way back in comment histories, I’ll copy and paste it into mine and reference the older post. This seems to help a lot in Discords where it serves you results based on date since post.
Or the “{random words} this post was automatically redacted” like I get it fully, after all I also fled reddit, but at least they should have archived their comments with archive.org first since I have had at least two situations like that this year already…
thanks for the reminder to delete more of my reddit comments
Recently saw a steam discussion which ended in “dm me on discord for the answer”
So much knowledge lost to the insistence of using discord as any kind of repository.
The lemmy equivalent is that the instance is deleted
I respond that to deleted posts
Chaotic Evil
That might very well have been my comment, I made a surprising amount of useful ones on that Arceus-damned site!
Ngl coulda been my fault. Once they said fuck u to 3rd party APIs, I nuked all my comments and bailed.
Very much your fault.
You doing vandalism to punish someone due to a decision you didn’t like is most definitely your fault. You may claim to be justified, still. But you are not innocent for it.
Vandalism?
Destroying a public Ressource/Wiki you contributed to. For example if you contribute to Wikipedia in the past and disagree with their firmly held belief that climate change is a scientific fact and then try to remove the lines you contributed you would very clearly be in the wrong.
You’re using a non-profit knowledge sharing organization as an example in a discussion about Reddit, which is quite the opposite.
I don’t believe they wrote their post to further reddits valuation, but to help their fellow man.
I definitely agree with you there.
Reddit, unfortunately, does not. I am not suggesting that Reddit’s bad intentions necessarily make removing one’s past contributions a good thing or a necessity – but I do understand why folks might do it.
Vandalism does still feel like the wrong label though. With Reddit you are the sole creator and controller of your comments and their contents (except mod/admin actions, of course) at all times. And even though those comments are part of a larger structured collection of comments, it still isn’t like a Wikipedia edit or a contribution to the Linux kernel, where a multitude of other individuals have to approve the change and can edit the exact same spot in the future.
You are definitely taking stuff away from your fellow man, and it may be a net negative for humanity, but it is still at least YOUR stuff that you are sabotaging. Usually messing up your own stuff isn’t called vandalism. I think that’s why we jumped on that word.
When you try to sabotage a wikipedia page or some FOSS project, that is OUR stuff that you’re sabotaging, even if you created that part originally.
That was probably too much text to try to describe the manner in which I am splitting this hair, lol.
I did the same, but I got out in front of it by never saying anything useful in the first place.
Most of my internet career has been trolling/shitposting. It started with yahoo answers. My contribution to reddit are years worth of posts that are like 80% true but with absolute bullshit slipped in here and there. Most humans who have been on the internet understood that. But now that’s all been fed into most LLM training data and it will never be plucked out. I’ve been poisoning AI for 20 years.
Thankyou for your service to Eris.
I like food
Wait are you THAT poem_for_your_sprog?
I sincerely doubt that’s her. Apparently she still posts on reddit (that I’ve heard; haven’t been back to that cesspool in over two years) and this person’s comment history contains nary a single poem.
You’re right. Poem probably wasn’t even the main account that interacted with people the way this one does. It was probably an alt only for poems. Oh well, would have been cute to see one of the old community characters again in a new place
That was the right thing to do.
Not “could have”. I have seen tons of these comments when searching for information.
Thanks.
I once worked at a webhost and was researching a problem. In so doing, I looked up a relevant error message.
I found a forum post made years previously by a person whose username I knew well enough to identify as a co-worker.
Turns out he never found a solution, either.
I’ll take that over
Can anyone help me figure out [the exact issue you, the reader, need help with]?
Edit: I figured it out on my own. Mods, you can lock this thread.
This is the reason I come back to write my findings.
o7
Good
Disagree. The frustration caused to individuals looking for an answer far outweighs the utterly inconsequential reduction in Reddit’s “value” by removing the comment. Burning your Reddit history is performative nonsense that only causes problems for frustrated individuals.
It is nothing more than performative because reddit still has the comments. Deleting them does nothing but make them not user facing anymore.
And maybe those frustrated individuals will learn to look somewhere else next time.
They probably weren’t looking for the answer on reddit specifically. Back when google worked properly you could just search for your question and often a relevant reddit thread would be high up on the list of results.
Spez boy shoulda not been such a lil fuck then. Not my problem anymore
I don’t even understand why a pedophile is allowed to run reddit… (And another one runs the country.) How did everything get so fucked up? Nobody has morals anymore, nobody gets upset anymore! We just accept our reality and then carry on. Where is the testosterone-fueled anger?
Are you basing the pedo comment on him supposedly being a mod of the jailbait sub? As far as I’m aware that was when a mod could elevate any user account to mod status without needing them to confirm. Someone made his account a mod as a joke. An account that was probably run by a pr team.
I’m not suggesting he’s a great guy or anything, but calling people a pedo because you don’t like them has Elon Musk vibes.
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Eh. You’re not gonna stop the enshitification anyway…
Yes I’m not the only petty one 😈
redact for anyone else out there who wants to piss off reditorsNvm there’s probably better tools out there
Unfortunately if you are banned like I was, you can’t use these tools.
(Banned because whayever AI mod bull shit they rolled out this year is agressive as fuck with eiththing that has “violent connotations”. Also, Fuck Reddit.)
I said the only good Nazi was a dead Nazi and here I am. That place sucked anyway
I wouldn’t trust Dan Saltman with my data like that. Absolutely not.
I’m unfamiliar. Is redact’s dev also building a library of the info redact processes? That would be so ironic. A dataset made from people trying to remove themselves from reddit’s dataset.
It’s not known definitively if they do keep the info, but it’s been speculated that yes they do. Dan Saltman has been accused of extreme harassment and stalking and is very close with a streamer called Destiny who is a known pedophile.
Ooooooffff, yeah I was imagining a gross tech bro not an associate of Destiny. Recommendation retracted
The the one reason I don’t delete my Reddit account is due to a post I made about fan control on Fujitsu servers 6 years ago that still occasionally gets a comment on it saying it helped then.
Maybe you can repost it somewhere?
Perhaps some sort of federated decentralized system
Said federated, decentralized system would need to be indexed by Alphabet’s advertising delivery service.
I’ve got one of those for a router firmware that’s about 12 years old at this point.
Shruggie copypasta.
Might have been one of mine. Reddit decided to steal the content we all created and call it theirs. Fuck’m.
Reddit doesn’t give a shit whether your comment is there or not. The only people you have fucked are your fellow users looking for information.
Maybe those users will learn to look for information somewhere else.
The issue with this is that if you try not to disturb or inconvenience anyone, you’re never getting any sort of meaningful protest done. This was not the fault of the person who deleted the post, but the fault of the CEO who forced them to.
Unreddit, Reddthat, and the Wayback Machine could maybe help.
Aren’t those things blocked now?
Possibly. I would hope that at least the Wayback Machine’s pulls are still in one piece.
That’s nice, we should pressure them somehow. I’m still too angered for deleting my account before knowing that the content wouldn’t be deleted as well…
