So long and thanks for all the fish, reddit.

Using the PowerDeleteSuite (while it still works) to edit all my comments from a 12 year old account.

P.S. If you want to mass edit and/or delete your comments, do it now (before 01 July when this tool which uses the reddit API stops working).

P.P.S. Yes, I blacked out the embarrassing amount of gold I gave to that dumpster fire of a site.

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        i generated a multi-paragraph story with keywords that will show up in searches for things like cloud services.

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        I did the exact same thing, also with a link that redirects you to a tutorial explaining how to get started with Lemmy. Took about 7 hours but the script actually succesfully edited every single comment I ever made.

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        I’ve done that with some of my accounts, and my friends did the same. The accounts that linked to Lemmy, Kbin or Mastodon were shadow banned. Manitcor’s solution (another reply to this comment) might be a better option that glides under autobot-radars.

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        It’s unfortunately not illegal. The TOS state that you don’t own your posted content, Reddit does.

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        what do you mean illegal? Its my content, the rights i assign to reddit is so they can republish my content, they like to reach out and extend it further but its not enforceable. i can edit my content as i please, its not theirs to own, its theirs to remix and republish without royalty.

        people have very broken ideas of how copyright works, its no wonder we hand it all over so easily.

        EDIT: Also they can’t trigger on edits, its much harder for them to do and would result in a deluge of support issues compared to just undeleting stuff. Source, I do this for a living.

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          I’m talking about them rolling back your deleted messages. That seems illegal for them to do and was wondering where you got the impression that they would do such a thing.

          If you do this for a living you probably know about the right to erasure. I don’t see any exception there that would be applicable to Reddit.

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    Be warned: I used the same script to automate changing all my comments to nonsense, but I found a couple of days later that Reddit had changed them all back.

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      It seems that there’s an issue where Reddit rate-limits the comment editing, so many comments don’t get edited. There are other versions of the script which add a 5 second delay to avoid getting limited.

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    I really wish people wouldn’t do this. This does nothing to Reddit and only hurts people trying to get answers when searching.

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    It’s your decision, and I hate Reddit and Spez ever since they decided to do the whole API thing, but personally, if I were to close my account, I wouldn’t scramble all of my comments and posts. It makes it harder for people who still search for answers to questions on reddit to find what they’re looking for. You aren’t preserving valuable information with this, you’re destroying it.

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      I deleted all mine, but I don’t feel bad as I don’t think I posted a single thing of value in about 100 pages worth of comments.

      I’d rather leave people pissed off at reddit when they go into a thread and see missing comments. Ideally they will look up the deleted post, then realize it was someone trolling

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      You mean it makes it harder for Reddit to capture traffic from people seeking answers. I’m in favor of that.

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      That’s a feature, not a bug.

      I scrambled years worth of comments into a statement about the fuckery Reddit has committed and left those edited comments intact while deleting my accounts.

      This serves a couple of purposes:

      1. Devalue the platform by destroying information, with the explicit hope that it fucks with Google results and that people will leave if enough people salted the earth on their way out
      2. Informing people of Reddit’s fuckery