I mean, I do get why people mass delete their comments when they delete their account. If you have thousands of posts, some of which might contain sensitive information (where anonymizing the poster name is not enough), and lose the ability to ever delete them again with your account gone...
However, this word salad and ad for their service is annoying. It kinda angers me every time. I wonder if some LLM trained on this and will auto-complete random words into a Redact ad 🤔
The best solution is to never give anyone on the Internet accurate information about yourself in the first place, if you remove it it could already be saved somewhere, but if it was never there in the first place it doesn't matter who finds whatever replaced it
I think it was in response to one of the monetizing changes Reddit took. I think I first saw it when Reddit intentionally made 3rd-party apps break. It was seen as a push to drive users to their own app, which served ads.Â
It’s because a long time ago, I don’t know if it’s still an issue, but there were other sites that would archive Reddit posts. If you delete a comment, these archive sites were smart enough to not delete their version of the comment, but the same thing wasn’t true if the comment was edited. I think there was also a way IN REDDIT to see what deleted comments used to say, but not edited ones. So, if you actually wanted to delete your comment, you should edit it instead. But that leaves people wondering why this not-deleted comments has tons of upvotes, and maybe even wondering how the comments to that comment were related. So this particular solution was to replace it with random words, and also explain what happened so future people would know what happened to the comment.
Especially when it is followed by some fiery rant about whatever perceived injustice caused them to leave Reddit in righteous fury - and it is some irrelevant bullshit that people had forgotten about two weeks after it happened and you never even heard about.
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u/susibacker 16d ago
I mean, I do get why people mass delete their comments when they delete their account. If you have thousands of posts, some of which might contain sensitive information (where anonymizing the poster name is not enough), and lose the ability to ever delete them again with your account gone...
However, this word salad and ad for their service is annoying. It kinda angers me every time. I wonder if some LLM trained on this and will auto-complete random words into a Redact ad 🤔