So long and thanks for all the fish, reddit.

Using the PowerDeleteSuite (while it still works) to edit all my comments from a 12 year old account.

P.S. If you want to mass edit and/or delete your comments, do it now (before 01 July when this tool which uses the reddit API stops working).

P.P.S. Yes, I blacked out the embarrassing amount of gold I gave to that dumpster fire of a site.

  • manitcorEnglish
    -1•1 year ago

    what do you mean illegal? Its my content, the rights i assign to reddit is so they can republish my content, they like to reach out and extend it further but its not enforceable. i can edit my content as i please, its not theirs to own, its theirs to remix and republish without royalty.

    people have very broken ideas of how copyright works, its no wonder we hand it all over so easily.

    EDIT: Also they can’t trigger on edits, its much harder for them to do and would result in a deluge of support issues compared to just undeleting stuff. Further I am the original rights issuer, reddit does not take rights from me I assign rights to them. Its questionable they can legally undo edits.

    Source, I do this for a living.

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

      I’m talking about them rolling back your deleted messages. That seems illegal for them to do and was wondering where you got the impression that they would do such a thing.

      If you do this for a living you probably know about the right to erasure. I don’t see any exception there that would be applicable to Reddit.

      • manitcorEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        back on topic, multiple users have reported having to delete thier posts multiple times, posts reappearing ~36-48 hours after deletion. [email protected]

        • bobalotOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          The script didn’t delete all the comments for me.

          I had to run it a few times.

          • manitcorEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            for deletes people were having trouble with the regular script, some kind of rate limiting, there is one with a 5 sec delay floating around but i haven’t found it.

            I did not get rate limited with editing however they did manage to prevent edits of my best 400 or so posts.

      • manitcorEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        ahh i get what you are saying and 100% agree, i think you may be right, just as i dont think they can roll back my edits, its not why they have a license to my content and that actually does matter.