Sidenote, but you know what has been incredibly fucking annoying? And I guess this is a combination of reddit having kind of always been shitty and oh we only find out more recently, or sort of, on aaron schwartz’s death, for early signs, and, people choosing to use it in the first place. I kind of hate the mass removal scripts that people have used to delete all their comments, especially since you can’t use unddit to see what it used to be because of the API business. I haven’t had to break out the wayback machine quite yet, it hasn’t gotten to that level of dire straits (not that I think the wayback machine would necessarily help for a lot of it), but there’s a shocking amount of really good technical information and advice that has been deleted off of the internet as a result of people protesting reddit. Especially because the tech-literate are more often going to be the ones who use those scripts and end up leaving.
I kind of hate the mass removal scripts that people have used to delete all their comments
after the whole scandal in the summer, i deleted all my comments on my 15 year old account. i realized that i was creating content (aka providing free work to reddit) and they couldn’t care less about the older users. from now on all my comments get overwritten after a few weeks
Fuck I feel you, it sucks but was the whole point of why they did it, cause it made Reddit less useful and more annoying. People who’ve spent years answering questions that would be referenced from the thousands to the millions were deleted. They didn’t want Reddit to continue to benefit even if it hurts everyone else to.
I hand deleted my technical comments all off Reddit before attempting to mass delete my account. I don’t really care about people being able to find answers to engineering and physics questions on Reddit. They don’t deserve traffic from my answers.
Sidenote, but you know what has been incredibly fucking annoying? And I guess this is a combination of reddit having kind of always been shitty and oh we only find out more recently, or sort of, on aaron schwartz’s death, for early signs, and, people choosing to use it in the first place. I kind of hate the mass removal scripts that people have used to delete all their comments, especially since you can’t use unddit to see what it used to be because of the API business. I haven’t had to break out the wayback machine quite yet, it hasn’t gotten to that level of dire straits (not that I think the wayback machine would necessarily help for a lot of it), but there’s a shocking amount of really good technical information and advice that has been deleted off of the internet as a result of people protesting reddit. Especially because the tech-literate are more often going to be the ones who use those scripts and end up leaving.
after the whole scandal in the summer, i deleted all my comments on my 15 year old account. i realized that i was creating content (aka providing free work to reddit) and they couldn’t care less about the older users. from now on all my comments get overwritten after a few weeks
Same.
While I wasn’t some power user, I did have many comments with 1k or more votes.
Reddits decision to first destroy the UX of Reddit and then destroy the best Reddit apps made my decision to delete everything very easy.
Well thats a consequence of reddit monetizing off of the userbase’s knowledge.
Visit the tech forms. They’re just as good if not better.
This is annoying, there are some obscure tech questions that have possibly been answered but I’ll never know because a spam deleted script was run.
I wouldn’t mind if they just added it to the comment that they left the site it’s just that they remove it entirely.
Fuck I feel you, it sucks but was the whole point of why they did it, cause it made Reddit less useful and more annoying. People who’ve spent years answering questions that would be referenced from the thousands to the millions were deleted. They didn’t want Reddit to continue to benefit even if it hurts everyone else to.
Don’t be mad at us for deleting our comments, be mad at Reddit employees, admins, and Spez for turning the website to what it is right now.
The point of a protest is that you do mind it
You can usually find archived versions of the pages on internet Archive and Archive.today.
I hand deleted my technical comments all off Reddit before attempting to mass delete my account. I don’t really care about people being able to find answers to engineering and physics questions on Reddit. They don’t deserve traffic from my answers.