Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract
Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract
The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.
The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners.
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You fellow Lemmings / banned Redditors wanna try to have some fun? Let me know if you can view my edited comment, edited well after my ban...
Please let me know if you folks can or can't read my post-ban edited comment. I'm experimenting on how much I can do with my old banned Reddit account.
Does this help?
Yes! This confirms others can access and view my edit!
I can even reply to it.
Haha, cool cool!
We don't know how deletions work on the back end of Reddit. It might just be marked deleted but exist on the servers. And I assume that's the case. Especially for things >24 hours
Still, I just edited my comment from like 2 years ago, under my banned account, under a deleted post...
I got 7 years worth of Reddit comments I can edit! I could make my own custom fragmented Base64 filesystem with my old comments LOL!
Good luck :p
I just tried editing another old comment to drop in the entire Bee Movie script.
Reddit gave me an error that said it must be under 10,000 characters. Welp, now we know the limits!
We’re pushing the system on what is possible
I believe it was in gurren lagan where they said “reject common sense to make the impossible possible”
I dunno if Id take gurren lagann as gospel, they were a big fan of touching the untouchable
That was my goal in quoting it
Anything is possible, especially with teamwork..
Whether I fully master this sort of process first or not is beside the point. It really takes teamwork.
I'm just proving the concept to start with...
Make sure you use those 10000 characters as wisely as possible to thwart good compression.
Ah, I like the way you think!
It's still just a fresh idea that's only been bouncing around in my head for the past few days.
Had to get confirmation others can see it first before considering how to proceed.
I'm not exactly in any rush, but it's a proof of concept...
Back when i left reddit after the 3pa fiasco I used a browser side script to sift through all my comments and posts, edit them to a fuck spez message, and then delete. Made the whole process very convenient.
It is called power delete suite
They store the current edit and one previous version back, and deletion does not count as an edit as it only hides the latest version from showing on the front end and through the api.
This was found out by people trying to edit and delete comments in mass during the api exodus.
So you'd want to edit the comment to garbage twice before deleting it, and hope they aren't willing to restore shit from deeper backups they surely have for system safety (speaking as a systems engineer) that they haven't pulled from yet.
Ah, this is useful knowledge, thank you fellow Lemming!
I did this about three or four times with Power Delete Suite before the APIs were snuffed out; and my stuff's still gone. I check back about every three months.
And actually, it is known how Reddit flags deleted stuff. They flag it with 999.
We can thank Camas for that...
I can see the comment
I can see it via the webapp
Cool beans!
I just stress tested the idea with the entire Bee Movie script, Reddit said it has to be less than 10,000 characters..
So now we know the limits!
Hahaha nice!
I searched my name and found a few times my name was mentioned in replies. I looked at the parent comment which were mine and though my names is Deleted, my comments were back not edited and deleted. I assume that they have undone all the changes I made.
Oof. Well, I have no particular expectations anyways, just seems like a fun thing to experiment with.