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papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Zikeji@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  The comment calling spez a pig was originally a solution to a problem, hence the person replying in positively. The comment was edited by a script when the user left Reddit, so the solution no longer is there, depriving those who may be looking.

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  • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    so the solution no longer is there, depriving those who may be looking.

    Which honestly, does more harm (to regular people) than good (harming reddit)

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    • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well, kinda. Reddit’s main commodity is its user content. They earn money when people go to the site from Google, see ads, and if they like the content enough, maybe register and keep feeding the beast.

      Removing the content people go to Reddit to access deprives Reddit of some engagement that they would profit from, however small or negligible it may be.

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      • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        It may be inconvenient to the end user, but that’s the point. Go somewhere other than Reddit for answers.

        But that’s the problem, I’ll gladly go elsewhere when I can, but on many occasions, for me personally, I have run into some random Reddit comment being the only place where the answer is. Luckily, so far when I’ve run into a comment containing a potential answer but has been overwritten I’ve been able to find it in an archive, but how long until that becomes a rarity? Real tangible knowledge has been/is being entirely lost

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Reddit should’ve thought about that before fucking with that user, then.

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    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I deleted several thousand comments and multiple high quality posts in niche gaming subs I wrote over the years, all of high quality. My knowledge and contributions don’t belong to spez or reddit, or the internet for that matter. Eventually those niche communities will move someplace else, and I’ll be happy to contribute there again.

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      • BuryMyHorse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        MVP

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    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      If you really think not choosing to put your words on a website is somehow more damaging to the public than enabling yet another greedy pig, you’re either delusional or a greedy little pig yourself.

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      • owatnext@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        See, I’m torn. I have been endlessly helped through college and now university through decades old Reddit posts. But I hate enabling evil companies.

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      • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Those “Don’t delete, overwrite” reddit tools have existed for a long time, do you really believe reddit didn’t take at least one complete db snapshot before the whole API shenanigans? They wouldn’t have multiple complete backups of the supposedly “very valuable” data?

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  • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    One thing to note is that the reply is only as old as the edit, so it could be a response to the comment telling people to go to Lemmy rather than whatever the original comment was. It could also be sarcasm, hard to tell.

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Redditors are still joining us

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  • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Someone used a script to delete all their messages and swapped them with that text.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Oh, that makes more sense lol. So the reply was for the original context I guess.

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      • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        So the reply was for the original context I guess.

        Or maybe not, Lemmy and Kbin were definitely a thing 5 months ago, when the reply was sent.

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