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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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I overwrote then deleted all of my comments a few weeks ago—they were all back in their original form last week. I’ve since run the process again and already old comments are starting to reappear
The best part about this is that the more they do this, the more it costs them. Every action, especially disk transactions, cost them money. Just log in every day, run your deletion utility, and cost them a couple bucks more for being pricks about it.
That's peanuts for them.
If you want to hurt them, make the platform unusable. Post real looking, but garbage comments in a semi automated way (random comments every few seconds, while you're scrolling through. Vote randomly, downvote everything on /new...
Exactly this. Post blank photos, etc. Doing things like posting pictures of John Oliver just changes the conversation but still generates the traffic.
Be boring. Up vote garbage, and force them to pay mods like other platforms do.
I'm actually surprised digg didn't try to get back into it again
I believe the reddit API might not allow full discovery of comment history. At least my experience with deletion tools was that once I had the data export to check I found only a small portion of the posts from by 12 years of history were deleted despite the reddit UI and deletion tools not showing any comments remaining.
I had to use a tool to go through the GDPR export to find all the posts and the tool has had problems due to some subs being private due to protests. I suspect a lot of people who thought they deleted their entire comment history may not have done so.