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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by fho on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:52AM (#36358713)
> (I do actually think this is the most likely, because there's zero benefit for Reddit here.)

The obvious benefit would be to artificially keep interaction rates high by "grave robbing" old comments and accounts.

"Nobody is ever going to notice, those accounts are long dead!"

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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by crazygringo on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:54AM (#36358763)
What interaction rates? For what ends?

The metrics you use to attract investment are things like monthly active users, and whether a comment was deleted after it was made doesn't affect that at all.

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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by arendjr on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:12PM (#36359085)
From what I gather, a lot of Reddit usage comes from Google referrals, similar to how StackOverflow gets a lot of its traffic. If people leaving Reddit delete or scramble their comments (which some are definitely doing), they also screw up Reddit’s referral value and Google ranking, so Reddit has quite some motivation for trying to restore those comments.
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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by fho on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:38PM (#36361612)
I was thinking pure "comments per second" numbers, ie how much users interact with reddit. No idea what's the right word for that.
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