Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
by ghglkl on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:37AM
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> Reddit suspends accounts en mass, and when they do they nuke their entire history of comments on the site.
That's not quite true, if an account is permanently suspended, the user page is unavailable for viewing, but the comments still remain in their respective threads.
It's only if an account is shadowbanned site-wide that all the comments are automatically removed too. This is intended only for spammer accounts, but can hit genuine users who are both newly created and end up being downvoted below a certain threshold.
Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
by DropInIn on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:57AM
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Also affects users who signed up for the wrong VPN provider
Ask me how I know
Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
by ncallaway on Friday June 16, 2023 @09:29AM
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I can’t speak to whether it was purposeful or not, but many of the comments I have deleted on Reddit have also been restored.
It seems unlikely that their comments specifically were targeted, but it seems entirely plausible that a site-wide restoration took place that included their comments.
It also could be a bug.
See the other Reddit post (one about Reddit punting mods if they act against the interests of Reddit itself, which has always been true it's worth noting) with 1000+ comments, folded into pages and pages of continuations.
Maybe there should be a redditnews.ycombinator.com. I joke, but at some point it is going to get old because I suspect enough of HN just doesn't care that much about Reddit making API policy changes.
I mean does anyone honestly seriously believe Reddit purposefully undeleted this guy's comments? Reddit suspends accounts en mass, and when they do they nuke their entire history of comments on the site. Reddit just really doesn't care about this guy's comments as much as he thinks they do.