Are there any tools that can edit your comments to make the ingestion of your data into ai models less worthwhile? Eg. The comments are edited to not be random, superficially look like a human made them, but have very little value when sold by reddit
Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now
Submitted 1 month ago by popcar2@programming.dev to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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knobpolisher@feddit.nl 1 month ago
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I forget the tool but every once in a while you’ll see a comment of gibberish words and it says “comment removed thanks to X”.
The service edits the comments instead of erasing them.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good, fuck reddit, anybody with an account should delete all comment history.
Saprophyte@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I provided quite a few answers in Linux, UNIX, and programming forums. I had to delete my comments multiple times as they kept getting restored. I even had a script that I’d run in my browser that would go through and delete all my posts until a month passed with no restorations, then deleted my account. Reddit should never be a Google result for tech help to begin with. It should take you to documentation.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
yeah when I left I deleted everything. When I was talking about it to a friend who uses it, and knows my account, informed me that all my interactions with them are still there. Took a look, and yeah, everything restored.
Hubi@feddit.org 1 month ago
Don’t forget the random comments in other languages because people are not aware of reddit’s shitty auto-translate feature when you come from a google search.
url@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good. Separately, I really wish we had a way to search for useful answers on Lemmy. I feel like much of the reddit was exposed through: “question/key words” site: reddit.com googling
Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I mean, you can do pretty much that by using one of the largest instances. That is most likely to have content from the largest amount of other instances.
url@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I get what you’re saying it’s just not as practical so maybe won’t look for the largest/most relevant instance for their questions.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Lemmy doesn’t even have a fraction of the useful information you could find on Reddit across lots of topics.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I know I deleted all my posts from multiple accounts before coming here.
degen@midwest.social 1 month ago
'23 is late enough, but it should be peppered with comments overwritten by 60 random words, just to make it worse
SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh my God, are you still sitting on this Orwellian platform?
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[deleted]SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t fully understand you but this seems like a truly great loss.
0li0li@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For the record some of my deleted posts got reposted/reset by Reddit. I could see my old comments in a few sybs that absolutely purged as I left.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
How is it possible to view deleted comments?
QuestionMark@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It uses this: undelete.pullpush.io
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I didn’t mean to ask how one can view the comments. I meant to ask how it’s possible at all in the first place.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
… so now they’re linking to the deleted comments? Lol I guess they do need the users…
usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No that’s a redlib thing
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Good
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Whoa since when can you view removed comments?
rozodru@lemmy.world 1 month ago
libreddit instance allows you to do that. one I’m using right now: discuss.whatever.social
note that you have to kinda bounce around from instance to instance as some will be great for a couple weeks then go away or crash and then you have to find another one.
golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yea, this kind of problem is only going to get worse I expect.
I set up self-hosted linkwarden the other day to try to avoid this going forward.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
[deleted]golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yea I have libredirect running to show me reddit stuff on alt front ends should I click a link that usually goes to it, but when talking about linkwarden I meant to make it in reference to preventing link-rot for anything in general on any site in the future as well, not just reddit.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
Remember to occasionally search for “site:reddit.com [your username]”.
muhyb@programming.dev 1 month ago
DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Try AI tbh. It’s saved me from tons of forum posts in pursuit of specialized technical knowledge, where I’d often be lucky to get a response at all.
Serpent@feddit.uk 1 month ago
You have downvotes because lemmy hates LLMs so much. It doesn’t reflect reality or the general population. I’m not even critical of the hate, its the communities consensus.
DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Purity test not found. It’s a tool, it is useful to me and saves me time.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Are LLMs good or just everything else is so enshitified that they look good in comparison?
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
lol, yeah. Ain’t it funny?
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 1 month ago
good
Manmoth@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I just use ChatGPT.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
May as well burn the planet while you’re being lied to, sure
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this post better suited for c/mildlyinfiriating or c/fuckingawesome?
popcar2@programming.dev 1 month ago
I know it’s great that Reddit is getting less useful but it’s still infuriating that I can’t find any help on very specific issues where the only answer was that one deleted comment/post.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh yeah, I sympathize with that problem. I have no sympathy for Reddit though. We all should have invested our time in something that had the users’ best interests in mind. Something like the fediverse.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 1 month ago
I’m unfamiliar with Reddit because I haven’t had an account, but can people delete their account on Reddit, and does that automatically delete all their stuff too?
stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No, you have to individually overwrite all your comments and then delete them to actually make them disappear. Even after all that workl some people have reported their comments returning.
Just checked my account and despite overwriting all my comments before deleting them…yeah, they’re all back now.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
and this is why when I delete my comments on lemmy I edit them.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
no it doesnt, you have to use an extension or a script to delete it. only shadowbanning prevents another users from viewing, but reddit still has access to it.
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
🤷
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I dont think its the same cause but I was looking for pressure washer recs a few days ago and came across a few reddit posts that had entire chains of comments from different individuals and every single one had been deleted. One of the posts wasn’t even that old (pre API change or anything like that). It was definitely odd to see.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
reddit is quickly making itself irrelevant.
who knew extreme censorship would be bad for the exchange of information??
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
This actually isn’t necessarily censorship. This is more likely users deleting their comments when moving away from Reddit to… Surprise! Lemmy.
Back during the big move people made a lot of scripts and apps to do that for them and my unpopular opinion is that its been not a good thing to do. Unless they archive their answers somewhere else it is lost knowledge. I know I am pretty alone with that view so please don’t start a discussion again, I won’t reply.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, I get so pissed when people nuke their comment history. Why do that when you don’t have too much of personal revealing information in that post or comment? Even one of the mods of AskHistorians expressed frustration of insightful posts and comments being deleted. I did not even delete my any of my posts before I deleted my Reddit account because there are no revealing information, and I know some of my posts and comments will be helpful for others.
MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And why do a lot of leave reddit and join lemmy? For me I got tired of getting banned and having my comments deleted all the time aka censorship. I’ve nuked my comment history out of spite at least five times after bans.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t look at what’s been happening with the stock price.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m trying to get the image of spez wanking to that price graph out of my head.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
censorship and being censured as well.
Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When Twitter went downhill, we got bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky works as a decent Twitter replacement and Mastodon is smaller and more fediverse-focused. Lemmy and Piefed are alternatives to Reddit but I wouldnt really say that Lemmy fully replaces Reddits functionality in terms of niche subs. That’s why I’ve always been in favor of explosive growth here with each Reddit exodus, to have a forum within an order of magnitude or two of the size of Reddit to properly become a replacement.