My old Reddit account gets regularly scrubbed because Reddit keeps restoring shit. First, all posts get deleted (again), then all comments get replaced with crap, and after a few months, they too get deleted.

A mod looked at my profile and couldn’t wrap his little brain around it. Hundreds of thousands of comments and post karma, but no posts. How? LOL

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    There were public archives of all reddit comments, to-date.

    Folks, if the Internet Archive can see it, they probably have. If it’s interesting - so has someone else.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Before the API fiasco … weren’t there several services that regularly archived entire communities and sections of the the site … it was easy for third parties to just collect and archive everything continuously.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        It was so easy that sites had real-time archives within a few minutes of each post. Anything not removed or deleted immediately was liable to show up there.

        Fuckin’ RIP web 2.0.