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I got a message on Reddit yesterday cussing me out for editing all of my comments there.
Someone was mad that a comment of mine that would have been helpful to him was edited, so they couldn’t read it.
I didn’t reply but in my head I was thinking “great, so it’s working”.
Seems like they’re speeding up their own decline.

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12 points

I thought they restored all the edited comments? Maybe I’ll give it a go then.

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11 points

Apparently they’ve been somewhat inconsistent with that. From what I’ve read, deleted comments have been more likely to be restored than edited comments, though either have been reported to have been messed with resp. left alone by Reddit.

I for one have replaced most of my posts with a “I hope u/spez grows tastebuds on his rectum” standard text some three weeks ago, which they appear to have left alone so far. But that’s a sample size of one user so by no means representative.

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3 points

Mine are still there, but edited it to a general narrative of what happened and why I edited/left the platform. I didn’t get all my comments, cause it was numbering in the 5000s I think, and no don’t care to be that through. But it got many of them, and the API changes I ruin make it hard to do now.

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I might be wrong, but I think most of those issues were from people trying to edit comments that were in a subreddit that had gone private. I don’t think the API could deal with that.
The first time I did it, a bunch of my comments were still there. I did it again, and after that it seems like all of mine have stayed edited (but I’m not going to check thoroughly, there were a lot)

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1 point

Hm, I deleted my account. I wonder how many of these I might have gotten…

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38 points

Upcoming Reddit DLC store:

  • Keep listening to music after switching to app - 5.99
  • Battery Saver mode - 2.99 per month
  • Block more users - 4.99 per additional 50 blocks
  • Upvote button doesn’t open the “Share” feature - 0.99 per 50 upvotes, 9.99 per 50 votes for NSFW posts
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7 points

Let’s put in more bad ideas.

On SuperUser, people can’t vote and do certain things without reputation. Semi annoying, semi understandable, right? Perfect for Reddit! And of course, users can make a monetary donation to increase their reputation.

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2 points

$0.99 per month to read all the comments on a thread, slowly increase the cost year-over-year and eventually add a second (initially) $0.99 per month to read any comments at all (because you should only read posts and only the ones we want you to see).

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30 points

Is this a fucking joke?? Holy shit lmao.

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11 points

This absolutely reeks of despair

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25 points

$49.99 per year

“What the fuck‽” he said, to no one in particular.

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13 points

That’s pretty insane. Who is paying that kind of money?

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10 points

I paid for Reddit Premium for years to help support the service and legitimately remove ads. If I remember right, it was around $4/month, so $48/year.

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8 points

I somehow was given gold twice before they changed how things worked. I was kinda surprised I got gold because the post just said to report people as much as possible when they throwing games in over watch.

Anyway when reddit premium rolled out I got it free for like 2 years because of that. It was a pretty cool/lucky way to get it.

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18 points

The feeling that commercial platforms give me is being harassed until I pay them money.

I like to support platforms, but don’t like being milked like a milk cow.

That’s why I’m completely open source and on free networks only.

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14 points

Modern day AAA gaming as well. It’s all battlepasses and digital store fronts you’re hit with first. Then they take an hour to fix store problems and a month to fix gameplay problems.

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6 points

If they only took money once, that’d be acceptable. But like bullies and addicts, if you give them money once they just keep coming back for more.

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