I've been thinking about setting up a single-user instance of kbin for myself. Maybe this is the kick in the pants I need to finally get around to it.
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This makes a lot more sense!
IANAL but there's suppose to be a blurb in there about not exercising too much control over the content. The more moderating decisions the admins get involved in, the greater the risk in going afoul of this. Once the company has editorial control, they lose the Section 230 protections.
However, since it's been clarified that the mods did it rather than the admins and it was over the John Oliver rule, that means none of the above applies and it's not a violation.
This makes a lot more sense. Thank you for your service sir!
While you can script deletion of linked posts, I actually did this manually from old dot reddit dot com and got the behaviour I described above. (Link preserved, just my username off of it.)
How are they not in violation of Section 230 at this point? They are clearly moderating for a specific political point of view...
Actually wondering if you should do this anyways. If the mods accept the report and hide it, that's less content to attract casual viewers and subscribers. So it's still a denial to reddit in a sense.
The other thing is, although they say they will get back in 30 days, I found a reference suggesting that they actually have 45 days.
Hence the recommendation is to overwrite then delete.
That said, while perhaps i can't completely rule it out, it seems like most of these turn out to be confusion over how reddit works, specifically over two things: stuff coming back after private subs go public (or even just restricted) again, and stuff not caught because of the 1000 indexing limits in reddit.
For more about the latter, see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than
I think at this point, the AI corps already have good enough training data and don't necessarily need any new stuff from reddit. Probably can obtain enough new training data via deals with their clients and stuff. Also, note that two AIs come from companies with big search engines (G and M$) and a third (FB) is a giant social media site. Yep, they've got enough of their own data.
One interesting thing I discovered is that you can't truly delete link posts on reddit. The link can't be changed and stays, all deleting the post does is that your username off of it (shows up instead as "[deleted]").
There are a couple different post types, like image posts. I only ever made text and link posts (and then it was mostly text posts).
I guess that's okay, once the username is gone for that not-so-deleted link post, then it's just a random link shared by some unknown random person. No personal identifying information revealed.
Unless it's a link to like your blog bio or something like that. But then I guess the PII is on your blog rather than reddit and you can always delete it from there, so still no problem.
Unless the PII is encoded in the link itself - like someone makes a link post to http://example.com/john-smith-44-west-land-ave-london-uk-the-tardis-age-1-billion-call--07700-900461 or something.
But I'm sure that never happens. Certainly no GDPR issues from this.
Looks like it's tough. This person did it successfully but also pointed out the admins made an exception due to some special circumstances (it was an actual hack, targeting an entire sub), https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/help/comments/avnts5/my_account_was_hijacked_then_deleted/
That said, there are a few more success stories more recently, for example on https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/help/comments/zk6985/i_just_got_my_account_deleted_by_one_hacker_how/ we see that https://teddit.net/u/viola451901 appears to have successfully gotten https://teddit.net/u/irisgirl86 undeleted.
One less encouraging example though is https://teddit.net/r/help/comments/pql6bs/my_account_was_hacked_into_and_deleted/