I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence, but I raised a case with the ICO in the UK, and today they got back to me asking for all my communication with Reddit. Also today - after a month of silence - Reddit also emailed me with this

If you’re in the UK and had been affected by posts being restored, I’d recommend contacting the ICO. It takes less than 5 minutes

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    I’m a web developer, that is absolutely not how any of this works.

    Their claim that the scripts are failing causing comments to be restored is not possible. When you make a request to a website the site returns a success or fail status. The scripts are getting success statuses, the users are manually checking and seeing that their posts are deleted and then they reappear later. This means there is a mechanism between step 2 and 3 being run by Reddit affecting an already completed action.

    Don’t comment on stuff like this unless you have any idea what you’re talking about.

    • @Meltbox
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      11 year ago

      You could have this happen via shitty database replication race conditions or something.

      Idk how good or bad their backend is.

      That being said if they were restoring them I wouldn’t be shocked either. Spez has proven to be an absolute moron.