I’ve always meant to do this, but after hearing about the AI thing I want to get it done. Is there no free solution? I have too much history to clear manually.
I’ve always meant to do this, but after hearing about the AI thing I want to get it done. Is there no free solution? I have too much history to clear manually.
The short answer is you really can’t.
Reddit Admins and developers have gone on the record multiple times over the last decade and then some, detailing how they specifically save every comment and every edited version.
Replacing your comments with a single SPACE or deleting them does nothing. At least insofar as you frustrating their attempts to sell your comment data.
True, but I don’t have to leave my content on the site and searchable to their benefit.
This is the flaw in the reasoning. What you see is only the external facing part of Reddit, all of their data is held in their databases. They’re not using the front facing presentation of data, they’re just sucking it out of the databases.
So even if you overwrite, or delete, it’s still in the database.
Yes but other people can’t find my content on Google and give reddit ad views when they read it
I’m sorry to break it to you but there’s no hope.
Reddit admins have gone on the record recently saying that the content from deleted accounts will just be restored at their whim.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Can’t you force them sith GDPR? Or are they only required to anonymize the data?
If I overwrite or delete the comments, other users won’t see them. So I won’t be feeding reddit ad traffic with all the content I created for them.
Perhaps they will decide to unedit and undelete my comments, and sure I won’t be able to do anything about that. But I want to at the very least make them put in that effort, if not successfully remove my comments from view.
That doesn’t work. I went in and manually deleted EVERY. SINGL:E. POST. I had on a banned account. I checked back later and they were all still up.
I’m glad you feel satisfied, I really am.
I’m not invested in this conversation to break you down or tell you you made the wrong choice.
I just think it’s much better for people to live in the reality of the situation. And the reality of the situation dictates a few things:
Any effort to remove your comments in a permanent way from Reddit servers is not happening, and the technical reasons have been described; effort to prevent the sale of your comments in this manner is fruitless.
Reddit leadership, administrators and developers have gone on the record saying that they simply restore deleted comments and those from deleted account at their sole whim and discretion.
The natural conclusion is to accept that you got burned by Reddit, and if you don’t want to contribute to them anymore, the only method to do so is by not participating in their app or site. You cannot retract your past participation and people need to understand this. Every time the discussion comes up about deleting one’s comments and account, it should be clearly pointed out by informed individuals that it will not achieve the desired objectives.
I really think it is better to describe how hopeless it is, so people get an understanding of some of the more sinister motives and machinations Reddit has.
It seems like youre missing that my comments are indexed on Google right now, and directing traffic to reddit. By overwriting my comments, that will stop happening - unless reddit undoes my edits (which I admit they could).
Your comments are coming up FOR YOU.
You are so far out of your depth and you know “just enough to be dangerous” - I wish you well.
Now you’re sounding a little condescending. Are you saying my edits are only visible to me? I have verified my comments are changed on a separate machine using a VPN.
You can destroy your content yet. If you surround it with the right NEW contextual information, you can make its value zero or negative. You can incentivize them to remove it, in which case best case they don’t do so and reap whatever harm your new layer of context provides, or worst case they acquiesce to the deletion since it’s now in their best interests.
The trick is to find this content which, through append-only, nullifies or inverts your content’s value.
Which might be unsolvable. But I suspect it’s not. Some kind of GANN setup should eventually be able to find a way to nullify any message’s value as training data. Sort of like you can add notes to music to make it wrong.
Probably requires astronomical amounts of computing power, or perhaps a head start with AI. But just because they have all the things you wrote, and can’t be deprived of them, doesn’t mean the situation’s hopeless.
You dont understand. By even being there and commenting, they have your data. You cant just edit it out of existence. They dont go “oh woe is me you replaced the text in your post with gibberish so now we are obligated to replace the copy we already have and cant use it to train AI anymore. Foiled again.”
Yes but if I overwrite or delete the comments, other users won’t see them. So I won’t be feeding reddit ad traffic with all the content I created for them.