Some of Reddit’s most popular communities have posted open letters to the company with a series of requests regarding many key issues at the heart of the recent protests on the platform. They want a response by June 29th.

  • @samus12345
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    81 year ago

    All deleting your account does is remove your username from your comments while also removing your ability to delete or edit said comments. It makes more sense to keep it active so you have more control over your data.

    • @c2h6
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      71 year ago

      Yeah, reddit is restoring bulk edits made using the api but you can still go to your user profile, sort by top scoring comments, and manually change your top 10-20 comments

      • @RaoulDook
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        11 year ago

        I used PowerDeleteSuite on mine and the edits are staying in place so far

        • Marxine
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          11 year ago

          So you used it to only edit instead of delete? If it’s possible I might give it a shot

          • @RaoulDook
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            21 year ago

            Yep you can just edit all comments without deleting. I used to use the original version, but it didn’t work this last time due to their rate-limiting. Using that forked version with the delay worked, but it took a long time.

            • Marxine
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              11 year ago

              Good to know, I got both versions downloaded here but still didn’t try using it. I’ll give them a read to see if they have the option to use a set of sentences I give it instead of turning every message into the same one so it won’t trip reddit’s filters or something (or maybe I can implement it if I have the time).

              • @RaoulDook
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                21 year ago

                Just to be sure we’re on the same page, here’s the forked / working version I used recently: https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite/

                It doesn’t require a download, it’s just a Javascript bookmark that you put on the bookmarks bar, and click to run.

                • Marxine
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                  21 year ago

                  Yeah, this is the fork I’ve got. I cloned the repo to read it and check how it does its thing. It’s just that I’ve been trying to get into the habit of checking small projects to see how people outside my work code (and to be more responsible with running random scripts)

    • @Restaldt
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      1 year ago

      And gives you a reason to stop visiting the site.

      The data stopped belonging to you as soon as you posted it*

      *unless you live somewhere GDPR applies or like california•*

      •and if reddit actually complies•