In the past we had the ability, and ive done this before. To mass edit my reddit comments so they no longer can use my data for profit. As of earlier this month, reddit has removed the ability to do this if youve been banned
File a GDPR thingy to have them remove your data.
While we have you here, how did you mass edit your comments ? I’ve seen a few paid services but I really don’t want to pay…
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#1.4.8
this is the best way to do it
be sure to uncheck remove submissions and remove comments check edit, and place the message you want to overwrite all your comments with. Best to not make it something mods would take down tho
Thank you ! Works wonders 🙂 is there a point to editing instead of just deleting, though ? I’m doing both just in case but I don’t know if that’s useful
If you just delete the comments without editing them Reddit will reinstate the comment and just put a [deleted] tag in place of the username because Reddit backs up all comments and posts.
My understanding is that editing the comments creates a new version of this backup and therefore the old comment can’t be reinstated.
So it’s basically undermines reddits process of retaining information if all the information is tainted. It’s a big fuck you to reddit.
Of course they have.
my comment history if mostly dad jokes, can they use it to train an useful AI? probably not, but will be very punny
They’re definitely keeping all the old comments, even if you “delete” them. What an edit is doing is making a new version of a comment. While this seems strange, it’s literally easier to do on a technical level and provides a layer of safety if there’s a bug in the code (allows recovery to previous data).
Honestly, this seems like a good move from Reddit. If they believe they’re removing a bad actor by a ban, then of course they’re going to prevent a bad actor from interacting on their stuff. Allowing edits post-ban for abuse is not a good outcome.
Don’t like it? Angry at Reddit? Leave and never interact with them again. Pulling that bandage off will sting but you’ll be better off for it.
Im not talking about deleting comments, its been known for a while that deleting the comments is useless because they’ll just put them back up with a [deleted] username.
I would say that in the last few years, receiving a site-wide ban doesn’t necessarily mean your a “bad actor”. I got banned when reddit when wild with hammer when elon sieg heiled at the inaguration. Was before this rule change so i was able to edit all my comments. But im assuming this happend because of the amount of regular users who got banned for nothing and wanted to protest the ban.
Just another way to control the narrative imo
We had reliable information years ago that they only kept the previous version of a comment. So if you edited a comment, then re-edited it, your original version would be lost. It’s why so many of us overwrote our original comments before deleting them.
The comments cannot be changed, but the second best countermeasure could be to poison the well with AI slop to speed up model collapse. That place is already filling up with slop anyways.
I wonder what’s the best way to fill Reddit with useless spam slob.
Erotic Spez fanfiction?
And then he sensually whispered in my ear “I’m driving shareholder value”
Leave so the site operators poison it themselves trying to look like they still have users.
The best solution is to just stop interacting with the site for anything … don’t engage, don’t repost, don’t edit, don’t change, don’t salt bad data, don’t post nonsense … just stop engaging, get off the site and never input anything there ever again. Sure go back and look at things, just don’t engage any more and don’t add to the trash heap that has grown into a mountain range on humanity.
That was ultimately what I did - apart from a single instance, I haven’t logged into my Reddit account since the API changes.
I feel that any engagement is good to them (even with an adblocker), not to mention when spez said “You’ll all come back.”
yeah thats true, but if more people migrating from reddit batch edited their comments it would take away a lot of their revenue.
