• nightlily@leminal.space
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    8 hours ago

    They just added comment history hiding as well, so now you can’t even tell if some people are engaging in good faith anymore.

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      So I get banned for reporting trolls because it’s an “Abuse of the Report Button” AND they make it easier to Troll? Do they just want people not using the site?

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        @QueenHawlSera @nightlily pretty sure that you just have to consider reddit as having been very much broken for a number of years now.
        They erroneously ban good users and encourage the trolls.
        The only way the experience is bearable is just to block idiots yourself and not engage.

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            I was a paying user who accidentally used an alt account a day before a ban was up.

            The ban was ridiculous and unjustified but I understand alt accounts are against the rules. My appeal was rejected.

            It was stupid if me to pay in the first place. My profile was linked to my real identity as result.

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            @QueenHawlSera lol. they blocked my account for having been created to evade a previous ban. Which was odd. First account there.
            Figured it was some automated bollocks they’d be able to check.
            Appealed, they reinstated it. Then permabanned it later same day for same reason. Gave up.

            • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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              Sadly that scans, apparently Reddit is one of the hardest websites to do a ban evade on because it does so many checks. If it gets the slightest whiff of something pertaining to a banned account, they ban you and increase the amount of checks they do.

              Not surprised they have false positives.

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    8 hours ago

    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

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      6 hours 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.

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        100% unaffected? It makes their data worth a lot less for AI training. Even if they keep comment history, these are edits - how do you determine which edit to use? Using all of them poisons the data, and picking one risks doing the same.

        On top of that, reddit has quickly become a non-source for opinions… I used to append “reddit” to any search where I wanted candid feedback, but absolutely would never do that these days. That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue. Reputation is virtually the only thing that matters for search, and Reddit’s reputation has been sliding for years.

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          People paying reddit aren’t training their models by scraping the web ui.

          The original comments are still in the database, which is what you’d pipe into an LLM.

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          That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue.

          and how many people do the same thing you do? they don’t really care about 1% of dedicated users…

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            …you’re joking, right? There is not a company in the world that is happy to ignore 1/100th of their revenue disappearing.

            Is it going to kill reddit? Of course not. Are they “100% unaffected?” Of course not.

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            the more technical helpful users are likely to do it, you think the vast majority of users give helpful comments?

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        To an extent they are. Part of the appeal of Reddit was that you could find good answers there. But yeah, the idea that “long term their reputation may suffer” is hardly affecting them in any demonstrable way now.

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      Good for whom?

      There’s been loads of times where I’ve looked everywhere for a solution, finally finding it on google page 10+ in an obscure reddit thread with like 10 votes and 4 comments where someone had found a weird, illogical solution to your exact problem, that actually worked.

      It’s a shame it went to shit. The real losers are us, we lost a lot of knowledge.

      • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        That doesn’t mean I think they should get to keep that stuff. Sure, we lost a lot of knowledge there, and that sucks. But the company lost out and pushed their IPO way back for it and I enjoy seeing Spez suffer after what he did to Aaron’s legacy.

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          If that’s how you feel, that’s how you feel. But I personally doubt Reddit as a company have lost out. They still have all the data. And they still have a massive user-base. I’m sure Spez is suffering real bad with his hundreds of millions…

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    16 hours ago

    I really need to go back and delete all my posts, I just dropped it and never went back.

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    '23 is late enough, but it should be peppered with comments overwritten by 60 random words, just to make it worse

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    … so now they’re linking to the deleted comments? Lol I guess they do need the users…

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    How would I go about doing this? I want to nuke all my comments since I know deleting my account won’t

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        Thank you for the links, I think I will try the power delete suite you linked! I might do the same and just edit all my comments to be something like that before I log out for the last time. Sick of that website tbh.

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      I personally manually overwrite my comments every few months. Be aware, though, that you can see only the last 1000 comments in your history, so you’d better do it frequently if you are very active. I haven’t seen any of my comments ever restored, unlike what I hear from people who use automated tools.

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      19 hours ago

      There were tools to do it for your… but after the massive migration they blocked a ton (part of the API block that drove everyone away)

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        The API is still available in dev mode, just obtain the client ID and secret to authenticate the app. I used shreddit this way, it was more thorough than PowerDeleteSuite when I gave it the GDPR checkout. Both tools produce a log so you can refer to the posts/comments later.

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      if you google how to do this, you can find some threads, i used a github library that did it pretty easily with a step by step walk through, some let you edit it and fill with quotes or advertising or whatever.

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    Thanks for getting me to finally run one of these scripts to scramble and delete everything in my old account. Fuck every American corporation and their user experience.