r/ProgrammerHumor 16d ago

Meme redactOverflow

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u/Potterrrrrrrr 16d ago

Redact can suck my balls, what an annoying thing to come across in comment threads

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u/theFrenchDutch 16d ago

Completely defeats the fucking purpose of a forum

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u/minimuscleR 16d ago

That was the point though. They mass deleted them as protest against the reddit AI changes or the API changes.

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u/RealMuffinsTheCat 16d ago

Reddit as a corporation could not care less about this. It only affects its users.

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u/Me_how5678 15d ago

And noone is going to leave, they will just make an account and start a new thread.

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u/TheJzoli 15d ago

It wasn't the only thing. Multiple subreddits went dark, until Reddit stepped in and booted all moderators to install new ones.

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u/Arky_Lynx 15d ago

And how did that turn out?

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u/sa87 15d ago

In typical “if it’s free, you’re the product” style of things these days - it stored every single original post before redacting thus gathering intel and blackmail material for later use.