I don't actually see that as something I should care about. My interest in chatting online on a forum isn't that my convo is available to everyone for eternity.

I wouldn't even grant that access to old posts is a particularly useful part of a community. Even on HN it doesn't impact my day to day except to laugh at that dropbox rsync guy once a year.

Let's be honest: you're hurting both but the latter will find other ways to hold the information in a way which may not be bound to a corporation led by a lying weasel.

u/spez needs to be removed as CEO.

It's not going to matter imo.

Once they accepted $1.3B in vc the die was cast. If it's not spez, it will be someone else.

That said, ballooning reddit from 300 employees to 2k while simultaneously (somehow?) being largely incapable of delivering the mod tools promised for a decade, making the site or the app accessible, or improving their app past what a 1.5 person dev team can deliver certainly merits firing.

Hopefully Reddit will exercise the prerogative to hit the undelete key. The idea that forum posts belong to the author in perpetuity is a weird mental hangup; forum posts are a conversation and after a certain grace period, contributors should not have the right to memory-hole the past.

Depending on jurisdiction, they literally do have that right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

Do you feel the same way about public posts on social bookmarking sites?

(If yes, you might want to update your FAQ and privacy policy.)

No, I think it applies to public forum conversations, like the one we are having. You shouldn't have the right to prevent future generations from seeing how I zinged you good.

Maybe they should replace all comments and posts with something like

"This content was removed by the user in protest of Reddit's draconian actions toward third party developers."

Good. That community should die because reddit is leeching on it. We don't negotiate with terrorists.

But this is the terrorism part: you're hurting random innocent people to terrorize the leadership into doing things your way.

Random innocent people are not entitled to the content I chose to freely create (however valuable said content is, or not).

Sure, what does that have to do with Reddit the company, or with terrorists?

> That community should die because reddit is leeching on it. We don't negotiate with terrorists.

Multiple people in this thread have stated that they believe that users deleting their own content is "destroying the community/Reddit", to which I say "their access to said content is a privilege that can be revoked, not a right", and users who do this (of which I am not one) should not be made to feel guilt.

Community contributions are a voluntary act, not an obligation.

"They" = company or community?

Why reply to me instead of those people if they are who you're reacting to?

Terrorists?

I must have missed something.

More of an analogy. If you kidnap US citizens then (officially) the US won't negotiate with terrorists to set the hostages free. People shouldn't try negotiating with reddit admins.

Because they took someone hostage? Seriously, even as an analogy that is ridiculous.

Because they took everyone's IP hostage - please, do try to follow the conversation.

I think that the jest here is warranted. To evoke such an analogy under these relatively futile circumstances is odd.

It’s not odd at all, it’s a common saying in situations like this or even less “serious” situations.

It's hyperbole. I'm dying to know whether you already understood that.

That’s the point. Reddit turned on the community. So people want to remove their contributions to the community. If everyone did so there’d be nothing left.