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Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love all those "deleted comment" that keeps growing on Reddit. Users are waking up and destroying any contribution to that site, making it ultimately useless.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Now, they’re banning them, which prevents users from deleting their account and annotating comments as a [deleted] account. So, it may be more dead (of users) than it’s letting on.

[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 1 points 4 hours ago

Yep I can't delete anything on my account I wish we could class action sue for the IP banning bullshit

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I never considered that. I got 3 or 5 accounts banned for next to nothing before jumping ship and finding this place.

I wonder if they're doing it on purpose purely to keep the information thats already there intact.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

Yes. Which is why you shouldn't deactivate your account should you get banned. If you use old reddit and hit all the saved and replied comments you've got, you can remove the stuff that's archived. The most you can remove now is a years worth if you just go back through your comment history. I'm actually digging back through my own vintage mac posts and copying out my best tips and will reupload them here at some point.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They still keep those comments as training data I'm sure. Likely even the overwritten ones.

[–] TheHound@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Edit to gibberish, then delete. Sure they have the history, but it's harder to walk back edits at scale than it is mass deletion when cleaning data.