Used a script to overwrite old comments to finalize my switch to Lemmy, and got this message from one of the subreddit that i commented.
Yes my intention is to annoy and create awareness. After i delete my account, Reddit is not going to get to keep my pearls of wisdom, or shenanigans. I hope more people edit their old comments to something like [moved to Lemmy].
If it’s entirely pointless… then why is there a bot to stop it?
It’s entirely pointless to stop something that is entirely pointless.
They say it’s pointless because it’s archived on other sites. The point is that Reddit specifically can’t profit off it
It’s not just corporate reddit though. Consider the time and effort invested in these communities. Obviously I left because I don’t want to support reddit (and because their non 3rd party interface is almost unusable), but there are mods of small communities that have put thousands of hours into building up these subs.
Ask Historians is a perfect example of a sub that gets punished by modified comments (and they have been highly supportive of protests). They are so heavily moderated that every comment is 100% on topic and each comment lost makes the hard work they put in less worthwhile. Now each person has a right to delete their own content, but it sucks to write a 3 page essay response with citations only to have the context be removed to spite reddit. The mods and contributors of the subs are suffering too, and at a time when maintaining the community is much harder.
It’s Huffmann’s fault for being a cunt. HE caused this. Could have worked it out with he devs and not lied. Blame him.
Waybackmachine has your comments anyway so there’s no point in deleting them.
The hottest of hot takes.
Yeah let me just fire up the ol wayback machine every time I want to read a reddit comment lol
Worth noting that if you use Reddit exclusively via wayback and go back like a decade you’ll probably have a more enjoyable experience.
You should tell them you’d rather people go to those other websites to see your comments than to give Reddit their business.
I wouldn’t bother writing replies to a bot, but if it makes you feel better.
Yeah I used PowerDeleteSuite to “edit” and “delete” all my history, and it sure looked like it worked. When I go to my user profile and look under posts and comments nothing is there, but I am getting replies on comments from years ago (which is already stupid on its own) and there’s my comment, completely unedited and public🙃
The fact that this bot exists at all makes me think this is actually a bigger problem for Reddit than I would have guessed.
That’s the automod for the sub in question. It’s not a reddit wide bot in this case.
Of course, it could be that reddit’s admins are helping mods make these kinds of reactions. I’d believe that. But the account itself in question (automoderator) doesn’t tell us anything about how reddit’s admins feel.
It seems odd that they reference way back machine. Almost like they don’t have proper backups and take their undelete data from archive.org. Considering how much a shitshow most of reddit is.
