• Rashnet@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Just got back a message from the mods who told me to grow up and called me a ‘hero’. They also muted me for 28 days so I can’t message them any more. My reply to their ban was this “Banned for deleting my own comment in a 10 year old thread? Funny.”

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    1 year ago

    With the threat of removing mods for participating in the blackout, I wonder if some of them are deliberately just being extra ban-happy as an alternative.

    Sub status don’t mean squat if the users don’t want to post.

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    I was abruptly permanently banned from a sub I have posted in for years for “ban evasion.” I wasn’t banned in any account I use in that sub. I had been inadvertently banned over 6 months ago when a mod accidentally clicked my name but was unbanned hours later when I noticed and told them.

    Supposedly Reddit tagged my to the mods of the sub for ban evasion. When told the mods, they sent a ticket to admins who abruptly permanently banned me from Reddit. I appealed, showing them the messages from the mods where they apologized for banning me, and it went no where.

    I really think the admins are clamping down wherever they see dissent. I imagine it has more to do with participating in spez’s AMA than anything. Anything to get rid of users that are against their changes.

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    I have deleted all my comment’s spez had made the platform impossible for me to return to with his coward behaviour. “Answered” 14 questions, then stopped answering and ran off to the press, he’s a coward.

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    Admins and mods will likely be more vigilant about deleted posts and comments at least until things settle, so it might be better to abandon now, then delete later.

    (Edited back to original comment.)

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      I recommend waiting to delete anyway, because you won’t be able to delete any comments/posts on subs that are private. Hopefully deletion scripts will still work after the API change 😬

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        because you won’t be able to delete any comments/posts on subs that are private.

        I’m assuming this might also apply to read-only subs (?)

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      That is what I was thinking earlier today when I edited 13 years worth of comments and deleted all of my posts. I figure they will make it impossible unless you are protected by GDPR or something similar.

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    Technically it’s the “edit” they ban for, not the “delete”.

    The Reddit history deletion tools like to edit every comment before deleting them.

    This was (is?) a privacy “best practice” based on the understanding that Reddit, Inc. can recover the text of deleted comments, but not the edit history. Just what the comment said at the time of deletion.

    Quoting reddit Admin u/alienth:

    We will still have access to a deleted comment. So, yes, if you’d like to ensure that something is completely removed, editing would accomplish that.

    Edit: to clarify, the delete button does delete the content from public view on the site. The differentiator with the edit button is that we simply don’t store old edits. People can choose to take advantage of this by editing away the text.

    In the case of deleting your comments to protest Reddit’s decision, I’m not sure editing is really helpful. It’s technically possible but very unlikely IMO that they would do something like a mass undelete just to keep your content on their site.

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      Yea, nothing prevents them from fetching the pre-edited content from their daily or weekly database backups. Media such as images and video might be harder to restore, but “soft” deletes on that type of storage are common, and editing a comment to remove an embed won’t delete the embed source.

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        Yes, it’s obviously technically possible to recover from a backup whether or not you edit. If anything, alienth was probably sharing that they can see deleted comments with no extra work required at all.

        My point was that “editing before deleting” is done by these shredding tools because of the comment I quoted. It does nothing to prevent third parties from keeping their own copy, and is at worst an inconvenience to Reddit, Inc.

        Therefore I’m not sure there’s any real value to it for this kind of use.

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            Yeah it would probably be illegal to use the data for anything in the event of a GDPR removal.

            They do technically still have it in their backups, most likely. It should be covered in Reddit’s ToS.

            According to France’s GDPR supervisory authority, CNIL, organisations don’t have to delete backups when complying with the right to erasure.

            Nonetheless, they must clearly explain to the data subject that backups will be kept for a specified length of time (outlined in your retention policy).

            If you decide to go down this route, you should bear in mind that other supervisory authorities might be stricter and that you must be able to demonstrate that it’s impractical to delete backup data.

            https://www.itgovernance.eu/blog/en/the-gdpr-how-the-right-to-be-forgotten-affects-backups-2