[might not really be Reddit] Reddit threatens you for using Power Delete Suite and other tools now : reddit

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[might not really be Reddit] Reddit threatens you for using Power Delete Suite and other tools now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Shredding up my Reddit comments (editing them to say fuck spez, linking to Lemmy and Kbin, not deleting but I don't care if they do end up deleted) and I got this.

I also got several hilarious AutoMod replies from different protesting subs. r/ProgrammerHumor requires a code block with an import statement before every comment, and r/shitposting has completely banned the letter B.

EDIT: So this is an AutoModerator message as pointed out by @SilverShrimp0 so might just be the r/absolutelynotme_irl mods trolling

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's from AutoModerator, which is configured by subreddit mods. Messages from Reddit admins would not come from AutoModerator.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, I just realized that but I'm not sure what the AutoMod rule would be in that case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's definitely subs automod, I used the delete tool a few years ago and got multiple messages telling me to stop scrubbing my comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's actually really interesting that subreddit mods set it up that way that it notices if someone changes so much so quickly and send such a message. I would have never thought of that, but I mean I guess it makes sense if they want to keep the subreddit content. Still really interesting. So these mods probably want to intimidate the person to get them to stop?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well it worked on me lol.. I stopped deleting my comments and just deleted my account

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that keep your comments forever?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but your account becomes "unlinked" from that comment. The user is shown as [deleted]

I tend not to delete my comments anymore because many people use Reddit as a source for information and I find it frustrating when a potential solution for me has their comments deleted

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know that with [deleted], but thanks for the answer.

That's just interesting for me because I thought a company would need to delete all information about a user if they delete their account… I wonder if this is conform to the GPDR.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea about the gdpr aspect but I would assume it's fine because that comment is in no way linked back to you. I could be wrong

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is it not linked to you? I could write my name here, my address, any personified information. And I think even without that a company must delete everything it got from you if you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that I meant linked back to your Reddit account

If you wrote any personal info on a public forum, it's probably already been archived somewhere anyways especially with Reddit (I can find most threads on archive.org)

I get what you mean by deleting your comments too though, but all I know is that Reddit doesn't do that. It just keeps the comment but makes it "anonymous"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I know that most stuff is archived and everything, but my point still is that I thought that companies like Reddit have to delete all content a user generated like that. As I said, that's just what I'm pretty sure the law here was like, but I mean, probably I'm wrong. It's still very interesting to me; I might look into this at some other time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On a laptop you can sort your comments by "top" and manually delete. Those are the highest visibility anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe only your most recent 1000 comments show up tied to your profile, so you cannot delete any but those. Deleting #1 doesn't bump #1001 into slot #1000

The lists are a bit different for controversial/top/hot, which is why the deletion tools all check all three.

Older comments will still exist and be search-indexable, editable, and deletable, but you'll have to find them... manually. I guess with 3P search engines? A nightmare.

Meaning Reddit is in violation of municipalities that have data deletion rules, but so far no one seems to care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Older comments (1 year+), if you delete will simply re-appear. Then I tried editing old comments yesterday (using public domain filler text), but overnight my comments have been "restored". Newer stuff you can certainly do this to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Someone said it's the caching or refreshing. Check again in a bit and let us know.