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I might get "cancelled" for this, but hear me out:
If you remove your account bad actors won't be able to identify you unless they put in the effort. Reddit staff will revert popular comments and posts to the way they were before the Blackout. Mass-scrambling your posts and comments with a "f*ck Spez", followed by a long chain of "A"s or whatever, annoys people who are just trying to find an answer to something on Reddit, and it doesn't help anybody except the user's feelings.
The preservation of information comes above some moral feeling.
Your opinion?

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[-] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

My opinion is that you have a dumb take, because Reddit does not give a shit about preserving information, their priority is making money.

Why the fuck would they care about being stewards to knowledge? That's Wikipedia's job, not Reddit.

So fuck them, I'm glad I'm making their toxic behavior encouraging cash grab site a shithole with my edited gibberish comments.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I want someone to add a markoff chain generator to a plugin like "So long reddit thanks for all the fish" so that I can properly trash my 225k comments in a way that will break AI crawlers & search engines.

[-] MisterMoo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Overwriting your comments erodes Reddit’s long-standing search engine advantage, so I support it.

When Reddit took my Apollo away, it told me I don’t matter. I treated my comment history in kind.

[-] AndreTelevise@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

On the other hand, it makes spammy articles from content farms the primary resource to find answers.
And either way, not everybody is doing this, so Reddit retains part of its usability, which still exists, and some portion of people will still use Reddit after the API changes.

[-] MisterMoo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I didn't choose any of this. Reddit made the first move. Maybe Steve Huffman should consider second-order consequences.

[-] Heresy_generator@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Or it forces search providers to actually fix their shit rather than relying on our labor.

[-] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

More to the point, I took it off of reddit, but moved it onto the fediverse. Folks who need that advice I wrote many years ago will still be able to find it, they just have to look elsewhere than reddit for it.

[-] blazera@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

kinda just making an argument for why its a good idea.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Reddit staff will revert popular comments and posts to the way they were before the Blackout.

This would be an explicit GDPR violation.

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