I, for one, can't wait for chatGPT 5.0 to randomly drop "fuck u/spez" into conversations.
Doing good work there.
they will probably just rollback all your comments, like they did already for a bunch of people. though at least that could cause them to have a problem with GDPR and similar data protection acts.
Though I think if you want to salt the earth you could instead bloat up every comment to max comment length, preferably with a funny story about data protection created in chatgpt. This might increase the server space needed for each comment. Maybe even add some disclaimers and stuff that this comment is your intellectual property and editing it without your knowledge and approval makes the site liable to a fine. This probably doesn't stick up in court, but whatever, maybe some employee will still think twice before changing back your comments.
I did something similar to this yesterday, but with the comment "Comment Deleted - left Reddit due to API changes".
So far no roll-back, but I've been permabanned from r /news
I've been told that GDPR doesn't apply, since it's not personal information. IANAL
Also IANAL:
To my knowledge, it is a bit of a complicated topic. But in general the definition of personal information in the GDPR is by design kept really broad.
https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/personal-data/
https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rules-business-and-organisations/dealing-citizens/do-we-always-have-delete-personal-data-if-person-asks_enI think the moment your account is still active, all your comments can be identified as personal data by your username and falls under GDPR for sure. If your account is deleted/banned it is anonymized so it could only fall under GDPR if the comment contains identifyable information. But anonymization must be irreversible, so I think reddit is not allowed to have any data linking your comments to each other after you deleted your account.
Now what if you edit your comments/delete them and delete your account afterwards (which schould anonymize it).
If they restore your former contents, doesn't that mean that they still have an identifier for your data linking the deleted GDPR protected data?
I don't think EU looks too kindly on stuff like that, they can be pretty strict for consumer data protection and using data like this seems pretty against the original intention of the GDPR.
The Reddit TOS can also say all kind of stuff, but it won't stick if it breaks a higher law instance.Spez is a person with no foresight and a bad CEO, i think reddit is about to fuck around and find out what happens if you ignore the GDPR.
I don't think there has been a case like this before, where a social media so blatantly misuses consumer data. This might become a pretty big thing and hopefully clarify the rights of the users in the future.
They probably have a monitoring tool watching content being edited. Do not make it too easy for the admin to restore your posts. You can use the python script that is posted around to change part of your posts, not all of them in one bunch, fill them with garbage like AI content (not just "deleted").
They have enough time to create these monitoring tools, but they have no time building a sane official app, go figure.
I’m sure it makes it easy when you mention u/Spez in every comment. I think he gets notified. I would just change them to something about why you are leaving and where you are going.
I‘ve already heard multiple people say they just roll back any edits and deletes.
Literally checked mine this morning and their back after I deleted them yesterday. Even checked a second device to make sure they where deleted.
Wow, if I were on the fence of ever going back to reddit before, this cements that I will never post again on that site. Losing control over your own data? Not being able to delete your own posts and comments? Like what if someones comments contain sensitive information they want to remove? This is beyond disgusting.
More people need to know about this and stop posting any information to reddit immediately.
Ehhhh. It's fuck reddit at this point, but I will just keep it pushing without giving these bad faith actors my energy. It's not worth it to spam the boards imo 🤷🏾♂
It is. Reddit API is going to be used solely for AI training at this point. By turning the conversations into garbage we'll destroy Reddit's value for that task.
Think how many shitty t-shirts the AI is about to sell
Don't forget to post a couple of new ones too, just so he gets pinged!
Nice. However if you would’ve changed them to something less vulgar without failing to convey the message. Reddit wouldn’t have an excuse to delete all your comments. Lets hope the don’t anyway
I'm in the process of doing this right now too but I seem to have lost the ability to view comments older than 6 months. Before the API fiasco and the blackouts, I could see all the way back to my first comments/submissions.
Have you noticed that with your account or is it just me?
That's unusual. I'm not experiencing that issue. I use RIF. How are you accessing reddit?
I see that issue using old.reddit.com and Apollo.
How is this going? I started getting serious about this today, and so far it's just been a real exercise in frustration. It seems if you have too many comments, Reddit hides the really old ones, making them quite difficult to locate.
@earthling is having the same issue. What are you using to access reddit?
I modified the script from https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts which uses the python library PRAW. Someone else pointed me to a script in python that's already using Pushshift though - I am gong to take a look since AFAICT that is the only way to get this accomplished. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-202228
