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Ngl coulda been my fault. Once they said fuck u to 3rd party APIs, I nuked all my comments and bailed.
28·8 months agoThat was the right thing to do.
Not “could have”. I have seen tons of these comments when searching for information.
Thanks.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.
WTH is it with the feddit.org trolls? Clearly an attempt to rabble rouse.
Yaaaah I’m a nasty lil vandal!!!
I dumped all my old comments except the ones helping people find their way to lemmy.
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.
Spez boy shoulda not been such a lil fuck then. Not my problem anymore
Eh. You’re not gonna stop the enshitification anyway…
I wrote my comments when they were morally decent. Then they decided to become morally indecent AND sell my data as their own.
Burning your reddit history is FAR more that preformative you people like you woudn’t be here bitching about it.
Go find your answers on AI, they’ve successfully scraped the old reddit and spez and screw off before he make another dime off my help.
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.)
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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.
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Ooooooffff, yeah I was imagining a gross tech bro not an associate of Destiny. Recommendation retracted
I respond that to deleted posts
Chaotic Evil
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.
A while ago I was having a very specific Linux problem, I searched for it, and finally found a reddit post from someone who had the exact same problem, explaining what they did to fix it. Then I noticed the poster was me from two years ago lol.
You should give ur self a kiss ;-)
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.
My favourites are the ones that are like
Please help, I have [exact problem you are searching for]
Nm I fixed it
That might very well have been my comment, I made a surprising amount of useful ones on that Arceus-damned site!
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…
Unreddit, Reddthat, and the Wayback Machine could maybe help.
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…
