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I love all those "deleted comment" that keeps growing on Reddit. Users are waking up and destroying any contribution to that site, making it ultimately useless.
Now, they’re banning them, which prevents users from deleting their account and annotating comments as a [deleted] account. So, it may be more dead (of users) than it’s letting on.
I never considered that. I got 3 or 5 accounts banned for next to nothing before jumping ship and finding this place.
I wonder if they're doing it on purpose purely to keep the information thats already there intact.
Yes. Which is why you shouldn't deactivate your account should you get banned. If you use old reddit and hit all the saved and replied comments you've got, you can remove the stuff that's archived. The most you can remove now is a years worth if you just go back through your comment history. I'm actually digging back through my own vintage mac posts and copying out my best tips and will reupload them here at some point.
Yep I can't delete anything on my account I wish we could class action sue for the IP banning bullshit
They still keep those comments as training data I'm sure. Likely even the overwritten ones.
Probably. It probably still feels nice to take a hatchet to it and limit reddit's value to others going further. As anti-social as that sounds.
oh definitely, when I left reddit (ahead of the curve), I made sure to mass edit all my comments and posts and everything I could find one way or another, to leave as much shredded garbage behind as I could. But I still wouldn't be surprised to find them analyzing the time of such mass edits and preserving a snapshot of content from a user before such an event.
Incidentally, do you know a way to overwrite you comments now? My 15 year account was banned for absolutely ridiculous reasons, but all of the options to blank out my comments cost money or require having a reddit dev account. Which, obviously, I cannot acquire.
No, I haven't used a login to that place in 4 years or so