I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)–but I don’t know that for sure, maybe I’m just being cynical.
Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn’t delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that’s cool.
And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a “clean” version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits. 😌
Same. Overwrote my comments and deleted my account on principle.
Actually surprising I don’t miss that 12yo account or any of my old communities at all.
I didnt go full scortched earth. There were a bunch of plugins around the time cropping up that would do that. Also reports that they would revert bulk deletions, I just walked away and have never logged in since.
Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)–but I don’t know that for sure, maybe I’m just being cynical.
Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn’t delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, so that’s cool.
And the mass edited comments have definitely not been rolled back. Maybe they have a “clean” version somewhere that they can sell to slop shops, but at least the reddit frontend experience is a little bit worse thanks to my edits. 😌