Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now

• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hear these justifications a lot, but the conclusion doesn’t follow from the premises.

  The value of the archival data that can be affected by deleting or editing is almost entirely only user-accessed value. Reddit isn’t harmed at all from the edits. It primarily needs active regular users to improve its stock value. Alternatively, it can sell archival data for AI training.

  Editing old comments removes neither value source from Reddit. You moved away from it so deprived it of both the material value of new comments and the statistical value of being an active user. Reddit also assuredly has saved data from before the API issue and can likely spot and clean the mass edits to sell the data from training purposes.

  Conversely, the value to users and society is high. So many solutions to problems that are gone forever. The Internet is decaying already and it gets harder to find useful information, and those leaving decided to just burn down a library of Alexandria.

  It’s their - and your - right, sure. They’re by definition done on comments the user owns. But it’s about as effective as punching desperate Internet users in the face to try to make Reddit feel pain.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would you sign up for a social media website if all the tech support posts looked like the above?

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t sign up for a social media website if all the useful posts were from before June, 2023.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s why the people deleting their posts also stop posting

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    • maximumbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This. Good points above an all, but they missed this being the main point. imo

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  • expr@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If that were true, then why did Reddit respond to the mass deletions (that’s what people did at first, not edits) by undeleting the comments?

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    those leaving decided to just burn down a library of Alexandria.

    More like I had my book taken off the shelves because the librarians are dicks

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ah, where are those books now? Which shelves can I find them on?

      I get the metaphorical point, but it’s a point without effect. “Removing with no possible present or future access” is the same as “burning” for society’s purposes.

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      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        where are those books now?

        Lemmy

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the highest value content, is mostly political anyways, its draws in more money for a platform, because users are addicted ragebait.

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• dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hope they delete all your stuff when your account gets banned because I’ve left at least three of those in my wake

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m fairly certain they do not

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Cool they can have all my toxic hatred against Republicans for their AI to learn from

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They don't delete your content, they just redact your username and disassociate each individual comment from your larger profile so nobody could, for example, click on the deleted user who posted a comment in r/abc and see they also posted a particular comment in r/xyz.

    The reason tools like Redact (many of them all use this same name lol) have taken off in popularity is because they delete, or redact the contents of your posts before you delete the account, thus making even that vestigial data worthless.

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    • truthfultemporarily@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Its not guaranteed. They may keep a copy of the original post around.

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      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In t, anyone could

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I believe they are still there but hidden.

    Quite possibily it depends on the type of ban you received (e.g. spam vs inflicting harm on xyz)

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know better than the threatened people online. It was all stupid political bullshit.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s not really what I meant.
        What I was trying to say is no ban is equal. Reddit may very well have nuance to bans they can utilize that will prevent you from just participating in comments/upvotes to full on shadow-bans.

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