In the past we had the ability, and ive done this before. To mass edit my reddit comments so they no longer can use my data for profit. As of earlier this month, reddit has removed the ability to do this if youve been banned
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The best solution is to just stop interacting with the site for anything … don’t engage, don’t repost, don’t edit, don’t change, don’t salt bad data, don’t post nonsense … just stop engaging, get off the site and never input anything there ever again. Sure go back and look at things, just don’t engage any more and don’t add to the trash heap that has grown into a mountain range on humanity.
That was ultimately what I did - apart from a single instance, I haven’t logged into my Reddit account since the API changes.
I feel that any engagement is good to them (even with an adblocker), not to mention when spez said “You’ll all come back.”
I forgot he said that during the API stuff, fuck that’s so fucked…
yeah thats true, but if more people migrating from reddit batch edited their comments it would take away a lot of their revenue.
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They’re definitely keeping all the old comments, even if you “delete” them. What an edit is doing is making a new version of a comment. While this seems strange, it’s literally easier to do on a technical level and provides a layer of safety if there’s a bug in the code (allows recovery to previous data).
Honestly, this seems like a good move from Reddit. If they believe they’re removing a bad actor by a ban, then of course they’re going to prevent a bad actor from interacting on their stuff. Allowing edits post-ban for abuse is not a good outcome.
Don’t like it? Angry at Reddit? Leave and never interact with them again. Pulling that bandage off will sting but you’ll be better off for it.
We had reliable information years ago that they only kept the previous version of a comment. So if you edited a comment, then re-edited it, your original version would be lost. It’s why so many of us overwrote our original comments before deleting them.
The comments cannot be changed, but the second best countermeasure could be to poison the well with AI slop to speed up model collapse. That place is already filling up with slop anyways.
I wonder what’s the best way to fill Reddit with useless spam slob.
Leave so the site operators poison it themselves trying to look like they still have users.
