Reddit mod doesn't understand account scrubbing
My old Reddit account gets regularly scrubbed because Reddit keeps restoring shit. First, all posts get deleted (again), then all comments get replaced with crap, and after a few months, they too get deleted.
A mod looked at my profile and couldn't wrap his little brain around it. Hundreds of thousands of comments and post karma, but no posts. How? LOL
My old Reddit account gets regularly scrubbed because Reddit keeps restoring shit.
Lol every time I see this come up I laugh a little because last year during the whole API fiasco I said that it was pointless to scrub accounts because Reddit likely had backups of, at a minimum, text comments since they had put significant value on it.
I was downvoted to hell and told there was no way they were doing that because "it would be too expensive and technically challenging" to have backups, regular or not, of even just text at that scale
Now here we are with like the millionth example of Reddit restoring supposedly scrubbed content
They're not restoring scrubbed content, it's just subs that were closed at the time of scrubbing are now open.
There were public archives of all reddit comments, to-date.
Folks, if the Internet Archive can see it, they probably have. If it's interesting - so has someone else.
Tbf, bot accounts also do this. They copy-paste other user's hightly voted comments to gain karma, then delete their history, then use the account for agendaposting.
Yeah, before I left Reddit, every day you'd see a thread that was previously posted a few months ago, with the top comments then reposted. By just duplicating a post on one bot account, and then the top comments on other bot accounts, the bot farms can build up many accounts very efficiently.
I understand the sentiment but I hate this in practice, especially for advice. Nothing worse than finding a reddit post with your exact issue and the answer has been randomized into gibberish.
Yeah well unfortunately Huffman is a greedy little kiddy diddlin’ pig boy.
That means Reddit is worth less because it's missing valuable advice.
The sky appears blue to the human eye.