Is there any benefit to editing all of my comments before deleting my Reddit account?
I was thinking of replacing all of my comments with either lorem ipsum, or something intended to poison the well for the AI.
If you mass edit, it’ll get restored from older versions - pointless really.
Find your top 20-30 posts and comments and manually edit them. Make them sound real, but at the same time contain complete bullshit. Anyone, or any thing reading them will be misinformed- not by you but by reddit thus making reddit less valuable.
To really be a thorn in reddits side we need to be actively, but subtly malicious.
Oh this is GENIUS. Make it obviously ridiculous so misinformation doesn’t actually get out. Something like “if you don’t have eggs for a cake, just substitute them for bacon and sweet potato fries! Make sure you mix them thoroughly with the butter and itll turn out great”
i just delete all of mines and be done with it.
I’m very much not a fan of this approach. Preservation of conversation history on the web is valuable to real humans who may have bookmarked pages or be searching for obscure info.
And I’d have to imagine the whole corpus from past years has probably already been fed through AI. Besides that, editing/deleting comments probably only hides them from other users, Reddit may very well keep them saved (or at least have backups).
Best thing anyone can do, IMO, is avoid giving them new traffic and content. Attention is the currency they deal in, and most of it comes from people browsing new content.
I see where you’re coming from, but leaving the content gives a reason for people to go to the site for that information. I wish there were a separate place to put your comments and posts before erasing it from Reddit.
Any backup method still contributes pretty heavily to linkrot. But maybe for any significant comments or submissions, make sure archive.org or archive.is has the page. That’s something anyway.
I can understand not wanting to leave them any scraps, but my preference for balance still falls toward leaving the old and deciding to focus on changing the future.
IF you’re going to delete your comments (which I don’t think is necessarily a good thing, though it could be good for you individually) you should leave a message about why you left in their place. Make it into a protest.
I also considered this. My thought was to outline a few reasons, with receipts, as to why I have left Reddit. I would also mention Lemmy as an alternative.
This would be a very productive use of your time comrade. 🫡
For ai the effects will be minimal since data is backed up but it will inconvenience users making reddit less valuable.
No. Reddit already has them archived. All you’ll do is inconvenience real humans who might come across them via a search engine at some point in the future.
All you’ll do is inconvenience real humans who might come across them via a search engine at some point in the future.
reducing the value of reddit’s corpus.
that’s worth it right there.
Reddit already has his content archived. Deleting it won’t remove it from Reddit, they can still sell their corpus to whomever they want.
