I’ve received this message on my inbox just a few hours after deleting my posts (all of them) last night.

I’m just glad to know where they stand.

And yes, I know that a lot of people have unsavory views about that subreddit, but I guess there’s just no accounting for taste.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    Getting “caught” as a bot is pretty likely. The first time I mass-edited my posts I got spam asking me to “not spam the subreddit” for every edit in AskReddit. When I re-ran it a few days later they must have fine-tuned that because I didn’t get any more from them. But it seems likely that another sub could have had an auto-ban tied to similar bot detection.

    • megane-kunOPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah, I think so too. I’m pretty sure that’s what happened.

      I understand the spirit of the rule, they want to keep spambots away from their subreddit. However, the fact that they’ve never participated in the protest, and that they never have ever thought “hey, this bot has edited and deleted their comments,” or even considered what might be the situation, in a subreddit that I’ve considered to follow both the spirit and the letter of their rules makes me feel a teeny bit salty.

      I guess that makes me miss that subreddit a little less, if at all.

    • DarkThoughts
      2•1 year ago

      It’s more likely they muted you. Afaik editing has sort of a timeout for API calls so if you do it too quickly, so your tool needs to delay each edit for a few seconds or it would cause issues. I know Power Delete Suite has not added this feature yet unfortunately.

        • megane-kunOP
          3•1 year ago

          Thanks for this. I am not in my daily driver (where I’ve set things up) right now but I’ll be checking this out (and whether or not I’ve used the version without the 5.1s delay) once I come back.