Reddit has now removed the ability to edit comments after a ban
Reddit has now removed the ability to edit comments after a ban
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
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.
yeah thats true, but if more people migrating from reddit batch edited their comments it would take away a lot of their revenue.
Yep, I still browse for a few subs that haven't taken off here yet, but I stopped voting, commenting, or posting. Well that's not entirely true, I still downvote ads.
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."
I forgot he said that during the API stuff, fuck that’s so fucked…
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.
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.
it's literally easier to do on a technical level
I wouldn't go that far. It's still trivially easy, and arguably best practice, but it's certainly more complicated than issuing an in-place update
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
my comment history if mostly dad jokes, can they use it to train an useful AI? probably not, but will be very punny
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