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.

  • emb@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        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.