Ahahaha relatable. I've learned that it's best to only take out one thing at a time, because I never manage to finish a full clean-out. (I have a lot of health issues that make huge projects an issue). Taking out one thing to get rid of or put where it belongs (a lot of stuff in my closet should be somewhere else) results in limited mess even if I immediately dump the item on the bed and forget I was working on the closet.
Bozicus
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...lolwat. I am suddenly about 800% less worried about Threads siphoning action from the non-commercial part of the fediverse. It's not going to be a better user experience.
"Internet" is closer to a lot of existing English words than "fediverse," though. "Fediverse" might get familiar over time, and it might make more sense to non-English-speakers, but I think it's a more exotic construction than "internet."
Dear lord. Random UX changes are among my least favorite things. I have issues with focus/concentration and eyestrain, and I would genuinely rather have a crappy but consistent UX than random changes.
Oh hey, I'm one of the other two, lol. I think they probably lose money on us at this point, with the amount of ads they serve.
This is a really good idea. Advertisers don't want to pay Reddit for ads posted next to NSFW stuff, and if they find out Reddit is deliberately making it more likely... that could be an expensive situation for Reddit.
Not all of them are from that. I have had manually deleted comments pop back up with no changes to the subreddits in question. Whether it's malicious is a different question, of course. I kind of doubt anyone is doing it on purpose. But it does show that deletion on Reddit doesn't work well enough to comply with EU privacy laws, so that's fun.
I can't argue with that reasoning, lol. I would have taken the earliest possible opportunity to have a character sit on a magical tomato, for exactly that reason.
An RPG with its own instance sounds super cool!
There's something so attractive about having a whole color family of the same model.
...also, I have a sudden desire to ink up a teal pen, I think I have one somewhere...
It should look like three red beans in a vaguely triangular arrangement.
Based on what I have read, the root cause is probably that Reddit doesn't actually delete comments, it just marks them in the database as "this is not supposed to be displayed" or something like that. That means that it's pretty easy for "deleted" comments to reappear without anyone actually trying to revert them, because the "deleted" flag gets lost somehow. That can happen in any number of ways, and it's unlikely that it's admins deliberately undoing user deletions, but it is happening. I have been manually deleting, so it isn't just because scripts don't get all the comments the first time (though that seems to be a common problem), and I can confirm that some comments in private subs couldn't be deleted until after the subs opened up again, but that some things also popped back up with no changes to the subs in question. Yes, a lot of comments are "reverting" because they weren't deleted in the first place, but that definitely doesn't cover all of the issues people are having.
I am not positive that "delete" flags rather than actual deletion is what's happening technologically, but it would explain how often deleted material is popping back up for people. Properly deleted comments shouldn't show back up even if subreddits are toggled from private to public and back, because deleted comments should be gone as soon as you are able to delete them in the first place. This kind of fake deletion is apparently not unusual for sites that store and display content, but it doesn't comply with EU privacy laws, precisely because it's so easy for "deleted" material to become public again.
And that's really the point: it doesn't matter exactly why specific content is popping back up. The fact that any content is popping back up after a user tries to delete it means something is wrong, and if enough EU users complain, there will be grounds for a lawsuit against Reddit, regardless of whether anyone at Reddit is deliberately doing anything wrong.