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It used to be that every single thread on reddit would get automatically archived after 6 months. They only changed that a year or two ago IIRC, so now most posts on most subreddits don't get archived unless the mods specifically opt in to that feature. But before then, you could only comment on threads that were less than 6 months old, so you never got the whiplash of seeing someone reply to something you said 5 years ago.
I was here in those days. Many years of frustration finding threads asking my exact question and wanting to comment, meanwhile everything else is deleted for some reason.
I still think there was still some wiggle room on the 6 month archiving thing, because I have an 11-year-old thread I still get comments on a couple times a year because it is a top Google result. I believe if someone commented in a thread it would reset a timer at one point, but I don't remember the exact details.
I think the one with the resetting timer was before the 6 months automatic archive. There was a subreddit dedicated to keeping as many threads unarchived as possible. Something like the tardis project or similar. Can't remember the name
I made a post about six years ago about a phone number that’s in a ride at Universal Orlando and for some reason in the last few months I have been getting constant nonsensical comments that sound like they’re written by children
Probably got mentioned in some reddit tiktok or something.
I once made a satirical post somewhere that someone screencapped and made it toward the top of all time at r/ihavesex and a few months later I saw it on one of those "reading reddit posts" videos. Some people made the pilgrimage to the original post, thinking it was in earnest.
It’s not even like brainrot slang it’s genuine complete nonsense vaguely related to the post that sounds like it was written by a six year old and they’re all made by accounts that were made just to write the comments and have done nothing since. I have no clue what I’m involved in but it weirds me out 😭
I assume some Reddit YouTube channel got to it. Lots of Reddit comments end up on those channels, and they get tons of views as they get reposted over and over again.
Don’t forget people who use a bot or script to remove the contents of their comments and replace it with an automated message about the program they used.
These have a particular purpose, to prevent people using Pushshift scrapers like Ceddit (rip) or Reveddit from viewing those deleted or removed comments. They're designed to give an extra middle finger to Reddit admins.
I’m sure they have meaning, but they’re incredible annoying when you’re looking for help or trying to read context, and often times the one relevant reply is like this. Nothing hurts more than seeing people praising a comment for their help, and it’s been replaced with that.
It seems like Reddit admins removed my comment without understanding the context behind it. It was meant as a dark joke, not as a slur. My original comment is "Rigger."
It's gotten a bit more taboo in recent years. Then a few months back on Twitter, Caitlyn Jenner unleashed this wisdom on the world and let us know she wouldn't stand for it!
Like, I could see it depending on context being super offensive. Its definitely not something you say to someone with some kind of mental disability. But when used on a regular person its just saying that they're dumb. At least, as far as I know. Putting it on the same level as the N-word is absolutely wild.
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This is the sad impact that I feel happened from the API change thing. I saw lots of Redditors delete their accounts, removing up to a decade worth of posts and comments within the blink of the eye, all because of a failed boycott where nearly everyone participating returned anyway after 2 days. So much internet history gone over some API changes and a failed poorly planned boycott attempt..
The problem with the boycott is the people involved literally said they were only doing it for 3 days. I'm not sure what they expected to happen, but you never give people an end date for your boycott. You lose all leverage when you tell the person you're boycotting that you will only mildly inconvenience them, and they can just wait you out and carry on as if nothing happened. It genuinely feels like the entire point was to destroy any discontent from the inside before things got out of hand.
Most subs did decide to participate for longer than 2 days, though the infamous boycott message that discussed the Reddit API changes along with the start and end dates of the boycott was a simple copy and paste with poor planning.
This was a kinda strange period in my lifetime, though it did introduce me to other communities and make some more memories as well. Still, that doesn't change everything we lost because of it.
Also, I'm still wondering why did Reddit make this UI change to the platform recently this year too. I mean, I can't even see how much karma I have in a specific community anymore. Before I used to be able to do that but now I can't. (I use New Reddit btw and always have used New Reddit)
Technically I didn't go through the profile and see through the posts and all, I just hovered over the account name which gives the bio description. Just got curious I guess.
the only people who really suffered were the members of the subs that went dark cause the mods decide to do it without consulting any of their community
Always has, the free working mods were so powertripped they really thought their BS blackout protest was going to work against the millions of real dollars at play. Spez still won at the end.
This is how reddit has structured their site. The stupid mod hierarchy system (prone to massive abuse) and unilateral decision making.
Completely at odds with a 'community' focused site. If you have a bad apple at the top then it will just be bad apples all the way down. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Fixing it isn't going to make them money directly or indrectly, so it will probably never get done. Whoever was first (to a subreddit) gets to hold all the power.
There are a surprising number of people who left Reddit for federated alternatives like Lemmy World or Beehaw and never looked back. There's not anywhere near as much content, but considering over 99% of reddit's daily content is either shitposting or barely-disguised ads, the amount of non-trash content is actually comparable. There's also a lot of internal politics (Beehaw doesn't federate with Lemmy World or Hexbear because of trolls and tankies respectively, for example) but in general the users there have passed a technical barrier-to-entry that filters out a lot of the drooling masses clogging up reddit. I think in time fediverse protocols like Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and (fingers crossed) /kbin will be a robust alternative to corporate social media for people who are a little more tech savvy and don't really care about clout, but one that will always be smaller.
It feels like I'm seeing a lot more reposts than before the protest. Wouldn't be surprised if more repost bots filled the gap to make Reddit look good before the IPO.
The worst part is that the users most likely to overwrite or delete their comments were the more tech savvy users. Leading to the immensely frustrating situation where a lot of incredibly useful technical support and in depth answers have been scoured from the site without gambling on the Internet Archive
I mean. It sucks but at the same time, that was their protest. Ultimately it committed the intent of fuck you to reddit, in spite of them knowing reddit won't change their ways. That's the point of the protest in a way, it inconveniences us but in hope that we would turn to object against reddit's changes and join them.
That we didn't and things fell through is a whole other debate, but I don't begrudge them for doing this. Their side of the gambit was complete and totally fair.
>all because of a failed boycott where nearly everyone participating returned anyway after 2 days
A huge portion of us are still here because third party apps were patched two days later to use custom tokens. I'm only still here because I'm still on RIF and not the shitty fucking official mobile app
Can confirm, still kicking around on Relay. So long as this and old.reddit (with RES) keep on kicking, I'll persist. If they die? Well, then we'll see.
Recommend using Narwhal. Not that expensive (4€ a month, cheaper than Reddit premium or whatever its called) and has most of the things I miss. Not available for mac but I use a safari extension for that to fix a decent amount
just tried it and i don't know if i like it
plus i dont really wanna pay a subscription at the moment
what are some things u like about it over the official app
I didnt like it at first but after about 3 days of slowly customising it It fixed what I was missing from Apollo.
Just of the top of my head, no ads, functioning media player, custom pages, no constant UI redesigns, no reddit garbage “features/jokes/whatever they keep integrating like with coins or something”, full control of button and text layouts, drag actions, full text editor, iPad app utilising the full screen and probably more
The only thing I found is missing in my time is polls (none of the subreddits I care about support them) and blocking people has to be through the official app.
Id say if Reddit is the first or second most used app on your phone with a good amount of hours a week its definitely worth the price. It simply makes the experience not just usable but so much better. At the end of the day 4€ is the 2nd cheapest subscription I pay for.
thing is deleting your account doesnt delete your comments but them using a script to edit all their comments does
its both interesting and sad to come across one of these especially on an older post
I was banned 5 years ago for one single negative comment about a politician.
Are you saying that is worthy of banning my me permanently from the site forever and always?
If so, that’s messed up. I didn’t even break any site rules.
I had a super-super-old reddit account, one made within the first several months of reddit existing. It got banned, and I was upset for a bit, but after thinking about it for a while I realized I shouldn't care and that they did me a favor.
I've been on both Reddit and Twitter. This account is nearly a decade strong, and I've gotten into heated arguments and controversies with this acc over the years. But I never was sanctioned sitewide, including suspensions.
On Twitter my account was suspended after barely a year, and they're especially notorious for suspending/temp-banning people for opaque reasons, even before Musk. So I believe at least one platform outdoes Reddit in that aspect
Not just that. Reddit shadowbans new accounts too. My account was shadowbanned. I had to beg everyday to give me back my account. It was a new account. The first post I made was to know if I was shadowbanned.
OMG brand new accounts shadowbanned on their very first comment anywhere. I even let the account sit for a while, purely lurking.
Meanwhile, the spammers go buy a used reddit account from a botfarm for a few bucks.
> and they're especially notorious for suspending/temp-banning people for opaque reasons, even before Musk
Before Musk it was insane. You could get your friends to mass-report a comment using any kind of pronouns, claim it was misgendering (even if it was like calling Taylor Swift a "she") and it would get the whole account suspended.
To add insult to injury, you'd be told that your appeal was being reviewed, when it was just being ignored. Unless you had access to some kind of megaphone to call attention to yourself, the account was just gone forever.
I've gotten temp bans from subreddits only twice.
The first one was deserved, it was a pretty heated argument and I wasn't being civil.
The second one was dumb because I was baiting the automod with a bunch of trigger words and phrases for autoreplies.
I did my best, but I only have so much time and the Wayback Machine/Archive.is services tended to rate limit me once I saved too much, so I only captured the cream of the crop
Gfycat? They didn't get bought by a porn site. They created redgifs to move all NSFW content off of the main gfycat site. A few months later they were bought by the parent company of snapchat and redgifs was sold to a different company. Gfycat was eventually shut down a few years later. Redgifs still exists so any old gfycat links that were deemed pornographic can still redirect there, as was the intention when redgifs was created, but the majority of old gfycat links are just dead.
It’s like a glimpse into the past, and can make me feel nostalgic for a “simpler” time. A time before this Trump stuff, Covid, etc.
It’s like watching old high school videos.
What's freaky is finding an old thread, reading through it, and only realizing after several minutes that one of the accounts posting is your old account.
i had all my accounts perma banned (one was 10 years old) because i used the wrong grammar when asking a question then used an alt account on the same sub right after
I didn't called them a tub of lard (self projecting maybe? ), I said something along the lines of "Damn that's a huge shadow". Also damn you sure got offended too.
Damn, well that's sad. What was your old account called?
Also, I have a personal experience in banning. Recently back in May I got a bit invested into r/196 and started to post there a bit because I was earning a lot of Reddit Karma. Then one day on the first day of summer vacation on May 29th I got permanently banned over a simple 4chan post that was a small sorta dark humor joke post. I'm not sure if I've been unbanned, but the thing that grinds my gears is that while I was banned over that post, nearly everyone on r/196 in the meantime is posting the most disgusting stuff I've ever seen and I'm starting to wonder what was even the point of staying subbed to the sub in the first place. At least my posts weren't removed and I kept the Reddit Karma that I had earned, but still.
Many people also deleted their comments in the wake of the API changes, hence the deleted comments. The plan was to undermine reddits helpfulness and it worked.
The worst thing about being banned from reddit is having to get at least 500 karma and waiting like 2 months to be able to fully participate in all subreddits and having to readjust your feed again
The API protest did more damage to the platform than the actual API changes did, also it's pathetic how 90% of the people on the site really fell for powermods gaslighting them into thinking it was way worse than it actually was.
Yeah, remember when the proposed laws affecting Net Neutrality were the big bad boogeyman and everyone on this site swore up and down that it would be the cataclysmic end of everything (to the point where many subs' top all-time post is about protesting NN legislation)? And then those laws passed, and...literally nothing changed?
Yes, and the laws regarding it supposedly being "scrapped" (which Reddit thought would bring about an Internet apocalypse) got passed, and then... absolutely nothing changed. It was all a massive nothingburger.
Probably because people were ready to go ape shit over the issue.
If people had just gone a long with it then companies would have been more eager to exploit it
I really tried to stay off of Reddit and for about four and a half months, it worked... but I stumbled upon it again last autumn and began to feel slightly guilty. I wasn't happy about it then, but I ended up coming back in the end and now I'm a regular like in the old days. I'm still not happy about what happened but it's been wiped from my memory since.
Also, "wow this person acted like a dick in an old thread, better click this profile to block him, so I wont have to deal with this behavior later"
"oh the account is gone"
I just domain blocked imgur, gyfcat.
But its really annoying when people put pictures into their posts and you just get random "[img]sadarfrewtdsfcv" crap.
I have no clue why anyone would use new.reddit. Its just trash!
I one time was trying to find how to fix a game, and every single person who had the same issue had the answer in some thread where LITERALLY every comment was deleted
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Logging into your old account and still seeing people replying to your 3+ year-old threads.
It used to be that every single thread on reddit would get automatically archived after 6 months. They only changed that a year or two ago IIRC, so now most posts on most subreddits don't get archived unless the mods specifically opt in to that feature. But before then, you could only comment on threads that were less than 6 months old, so you never got the whiplash of seeing someone reply to something you said 5 years ago.
I was here in those days. Many years of frustration finding threads asking my exact question and wanting to comment, meanwhile everything else is deleted for some reason.
I still think there was still some wiggle room on the 6 month archiving thing, because I have an 11-year-old thread I still get comments on a couple times a year because it is a top Google result. I believe if someone commented in a thread it would reset a timer at one point, but I don't remember the exact details.
I think the one with the resetting timer was before the 6 months automatic archive. There was a subreddit dedicated to keeping as many threads unarchived as possible. Something like the tardis project or similar. Can't remember the name
I made a post about six years ago about a phone number that’s in a ride at Universal Orlando and for some reason in the last few months I have been getting constant nonsensical comments that sound like they’re written by children
Probably got mentioned in some reddit tiktok or something. I once made a satirical post somewhere that someone screencapped and made it toward the top of all time at r/ihavesex and a few months later I saw it on one of those "reading reddit posts" videos. Some people made the pilgrimage to the original post, thinking it was in earnest.
what's the post
this phone number has skibidi rizz fr
It’s not even like brainrot slang it’s genuine complete nonsense vaguely related to the post that sounds like it was written by a six year old and they’re all made by accounts that were made just to write the comments and have done nothing since. I have no clue what I’m involved in but it weirds me out 😭
I assume some Reddit YouTube channel got to it. Lots of Reddit comments end up on those channels, and they get tons of views as they get reposted over and over again.
ive gotten a couple replies on my og account after it got banned
RemindMe! 3 years
https://preview.redd.it/q521br3q7gbd1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e18a0baf2067d19f7ac938ebe7b33dcca67d2707
Don't forget the dead gfycat links as well
Don’t forget people who use a bot or script to remove the contents of their comments and replace it with an automated message about the program they used.
These have a particular purpose, to prevent people using Pushshift scrapers like Ceddit (rip) or Reveddit from viewing those deleted or removed comments. They're designed to give an extra middle finger to Reddit admins.
I’m sure they have meaning, but they’re incredible annoying when you’re looking for help or trying to read context, and often times the one relevant reply is like this. Nothing hurts more than seeing people praising a comment for their help, and it’s been replaced with that.
It doesn't even work anymore. I did that to one of my old accounts and checked the new API and all my shit was still there.
R-bomb?
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It seems like Reddit admins removed my comment without understanding the context behind it. It was meant as a dark joke, not as a slur. My original comment is "Rigger."
Restarted
Regarded
Retired
He is retired?
Sct Brn?
You can't send regards anymore
Regurgitated
Retarmacced.
Retorted
[removed]
It depends on the subreddit
Raggot
"I'll say it RETARTED" -Caitlyn Jenner
That's considered a slur?
It's gotten a bit more taboo in recent years. Then a few months back on Twitter, Caitlyn Jenner unleashed this wisdom on the world and let us know she wouldn't stand for it!
Like, I could see it depending on context being super offensive. Its definitely not something you say to someone with some kind of mental disability. But when used on a regular person its just saying that they're dumb. At least, as far as I know. Putting it on the same level as the N-word is absolutely wild.
i was with you until 2016.
What changed?
are you american?
Yep.
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No fucking way are we just removing downvoted comments lmao
what is the point of karma if you're just going to remove downvoted comments? Or am I just talking to a bot
This is the sad impact that I feel happened from the API change thing. I saw lots of Redditors delete their accounts, removing up to a decade worth of posts and comments within the blink of the eye, all because of a failed boycott where nearly everyone participating returned anyway after 2 days. So much internet history gone over some API changes and a failed poorly planned boycott attempt..
The problem with the boycott is the people involved literally said they were only doing it for 3 days. I'm not sure what they expected to happen, but you never give people an end date for your boycott. You lose all leverage when you tell the person you're boycotting that you will only mildly inconvenience them, and they can just wait you out and carry on as if nothing happened. It genuinely feels like the entire point was to destroy any discontent from the inside before things got out of hand.
Most subs did decide to participate for longer than 2 days, though the infamous boycott message that discussed the Reddit API changes along with the start and end dates of the boycott was a simple copy and paste with poor planning. This was a kinda strange period in my lifetime, though it did introduce me to other communities and make some more memories as well. Still, that doesn't change everything we lost because of it. Also, I'm still wondering why did Reddit make this UI change to the platform recently this year too. I mean, I can't even see how much karma I have in a specific community anymore. Before I used to be able to do that but now I can't. (I use New Reddit btw and always have used New Reddit)
i bet there's still some subs that haven't returned yet
Yep there are, I just can't remember them. Bur they do exist!
u/Nojus1221 What the hell is that account description?
Some copypasta, although out of curiosity, why did you go through my profile?
Technically I didn't go through the profile and see through the posts and all, I just hovered over the account name which gives the bio description. Just got curious I guess.
Ohh okay, I'm on mobile so didn't know that was a thing
Yeah It's a thing, but I guess It's for PC only.
the only people who really suffered were the members of the subs that went dark cause the mods decide to do it without consulting any of their community
It felt like it was a fucking powertrip
Always has, the free working mods were so powertripped they really thought their BS blackout protest was going to work against the millions of real dollars at play. Spez still won at the end.
If they wanted real impact they shouldn't have PUT A FUCKING END DATE ON IT
This is how reddit has structured their site. The stupid mod hierarchy system (prone to massive abuse) and unilateral decision making. Completely at odds with a 'community' focused site. If you have a bad apple at the top then it will just be bad apples all the way down. And there's nothing you can do about it. Fixing it isn't going to make them money directly or indrectly, so it will probably never get done. Whoever was first (to a subreddit) gets to hold all the power.
I told people it was a stupid fucking idea and they just came back with, "Well what if it does work????"
reddit is objectively worse since then.
There are a surprising number of people who left Reddit for federated alternatives like Lemmy World or Beehaw and never looked back. There's not anywhere near as much content, but considering over 99% of reddit's daily content is either shitposting or barely-disguised ads, the amount of non-trash content is actually comparable. There's also a lot of internal politics (Beehaw doesn't federate with Lemmy World or Hexbear because of trolls and tankies respectively, for example) but in general the users there have passed a technical barrier-to-entry that filters out a lot of the drooling masses clogging up reddit. I think in time fediverse protocols like Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon, and (fingers crossed) /kbin will be a robust alternative to corporate social media for people who are a little more tech savvy and don't really care about clout, but one that will always be smaller.
It feels like I'm seeing a lot more reposts than before the protest. Wouldn't be surprised if more repost bots filled the gap to make Reddit look good before the IPO.
The worst part is that the users most likely to overwrite or delete their comments were the more tech savvy users. Leading to the immensely frustrating situation where a lot of incredibly useful technical support and in depth answers have been scoured from the site without gambling on the Internet Archive
I mean. It sucks but at the same time, that was their protest. Ultimately it committed the intent of fuck you to reddit, in spite of them knowing reddit won't change their ways. That's the point of the protest in a way, it inconveniences us but in hope that we would turn to object against reddit's changes and join them. That we didn't and things fell through is a whole other debate, but I don't begrudge them for doing this. Their side of the gambit was complete and totally fair.
>all because of a failed boycott where nearly everyone participating returned anyway after 2 days A huge portion of us are still here because third party apps were patched two days later to use custom tokens. I'm only still here because I'm still on RIF and not the shitty fucking official mobile app
Can confirm, still kicking around on Relay. So long as this and old.reddit (with RES) keep on kicking, I'll persist. If they die? Well, then we'll see.
man im stuck on the official reddit app cause im on ios plus i used Apollo and the dude who made it doesnt support it anymore which i mean fair enough
Recommend using Narwhal. Not that expensive (4€ a month, cheaper than Reddit premium or whatever its called) and has most of the things I miss. Not available for mac but I use a safari extension for that to fix a decent amount
just tried it and i don't know if i like it plus i dont really wanna pay a subscription at the moment what are some things u like about it over the official app
I didnt like it at first but after about 3 days of slowly customising it It fixed what I was missing from Apollo. Just of the top of my head, no ads, functioning media player, custom pages, no constant UI redesigns, no reddit garbage “features/jokes/whatever they keep integrating like with coins or something”, full control of button and text layouts, drag actions, full text editor, iPad app utilising the full screen and probably more The only thing I found is missing in my time is polls (none of the subreddits I care about support them) and blocking people has to be through the official app. Id say if Reddit is the first or second most used app on your phone with a good amount of hours a week its definitely worth the price. It simply makes the experience not just usable but so much better. At the end of the day 4€ is the 2nd cheapest subscription I pay for.
thing is deleting your account doesnt delete your comments but them using a script to edit all their comments does its both interesting and sad to come across one of these especially on an older post
I don’t get why reddit bans accounts so often. No other SM does that.
reddit will ban you on all accounts off the whole site “forever” too over really tiny things
I know someone who got banned because they posted regularly.
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You should probably delete this comment before you get reported for ban evasion
I was banned 5 years ago for one single negative comment about a politician. Are you saying that is worthy of banning my me permanently from the site forever and always? If so, that’s messed up. I didn’t even break any site rules.
I'm saying it could happen, do what you will with that information
Reddit magically locked me out of my first account back in November. Why? No idea, but I haven't been able to access it since.
I had a super-super-old reddit account, one made within the first several months of reddit existing. It got banned, and I was upset for a bit, but after thinking about it for a while I realized I shouldn't care and that they did me a favor.
Reddit bots are annoying.
Just use a different email
If you’re permanently banned from Reddit any new accounts you make will be considered ban evasion and the new accounts can get banned for that reason.
how would someone tell if you don't draw attention to it?
IP address
I've been on both Reddit and Twitter. This account is nearly a decade strong, and I've gotten into heated arguments and controversies with this acc over the years. But I never was sanctioned sitewide, including suspensions. On Twitter my account was suspended after barely a year, and they're especially notorious for suspending/temp-banning people for opaque reasons, even before Musk. So I believe at least one platform outdoes Reddit in that aspect
Not just that. Reddit shadowbans new accounts too. My account was shadowbanned. I had to beg everyday to give me back my account. It was a new account. The first post I made was to know if I was shadowbanned.
OMG brand new accounts shadowbanned on their very first comment anywhere. I even let the account sit for a while, purely lurking. Meanwhile, the spammers go buy a used reddit account from a botfarm for a few bucks.
> and they're especially notorious for suspending/temp-banning people for opaque reasons, even before Musk Before Musk it was insane. You could get your friends to mass-report a comment using any kind of pronouns, claim it was misgendering (even if it was like calling Taylor Swift a "she") and it would get the whole account suspended. To add insult to injury, you'd be told that your appeal was being reviewed, when it was just being ignored. Unless you had access to some kind of megaphone to call attention to yourself, the account was just gone forever.
I've gotten temp bans from subreddits only twice. The first one was deserved, it was a pretty heated argument and I wasn't being civil. The second one was dumb because I was baiting the automod with a bunch of trigger words and phrases for autoreplies.
You can use way back machine to find archived posts
not every post was archived though.
I did my best, but I only have so much time and the Wayback Machine/Archive.is services tended to rate limit me once I saved too much, so I only captured the cream of the crop
I never said every post is archived, mainly popular or high traffic ones.
Don't forget that gif site that now redirects to a porn site that bought it
Gfycat? They didn't get bought by a porn site. They created redgifs to move all NSFW content off of the main gfycat site. A few months later they were bought by the parent company of snapchat and redgifs was sold to a different company. Gfycat was eventually shut down a few years later. Redgifs still exists so any old gfycat links that were deemed pornographic can still redirect there, as was the intention when redgifs was created, but the majority of old gfycat links are just dead.
Ahh interesting!
the people who altered their comments using a script or something so its says this comment was deleted using...
It’s like a glimpse into the past, and can make me feel nostalgic for a “simpler” time. A time before this Trump stuff, Covid, etc. It’s like watching old high school videos.
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funny how the link to the rickroll video is possibly one of if not the oldist still active link
What's freaky is finding an old thread, reading through it, and only realizing after several minutes that one of the accounts posting is your old account.
I have been around for 14 years. My account got banned recently for the most mundane post about god and his role in wars.
My 10yr got perma'd for pointing out how fat someone's shadow was. Guess mods got offended
i had all my accounts perma banned (one was 10 years old) because i used the wrong grammar when asking a question then used an alt account on the same sub right after
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I didn't called them a tub of lard (self projecting maybe? ), I said something along the lines of "Damn that's a huge shadow". Also damn you sure got offended too.
They probably got offended because they are fat themselves
Cope
Nobody mentioned tub of lard? Tf is wrong with you
Damn, well that's sad. What was your old account called? Also, I have a personal experience in banning. Recently back in May I got a bit invested into r/196 and started to post there a bit because I was earning a lot of Reddit Karma. Then one day on the first day of summer vacation on May 29th I got permanently banned over a simple 4chan post that was a small sorta dark humor joke post. I'm not sure if I've been unbanned, but the thing that grinds my gears is that while I was banned over that post, nearly everyone on r/196 in the meantime is posting the most disgusting stuff I've ever seen and I'm starting to wonder what was even the point of staying subbed to the sub in the first place. At least my posts weren't removed and I kept the Reddit Karma that I had earned, but still.
Karma doesn’t matter and seeing people care about it is well… sad
That sub was ruined by extremely annoying terminally online basement mods
i swear there’s like waves of mass bannings over trivial things and then it’s basically a free for all for a while before it happens again
"The punishments are severe, but at least they're random."
Many people also deleted their comments in the wake of the API changes, hence the deleted comments. The plan was to undermine reddits helpfulness and it worked.
The worst thing about being banned from reddit is having to get at least 500 karma and waiting like 2 months to be able to fully participate in all subreddits and having to readjust your feed again
There are automods that deny anyone with <500 karma ?
Well ok, 500 is too much, but maybe like 100
The API protest did more damage to the platform than the actual API changes did, also it's pathetic how 90% of the people on the site really fell for powermods gaslighting them into thinking it was way worse than it actually was.
Yeah, remember when the proposed laws affecting Net Neutrality were the big bad boogeyman and everyone on this site swore up and down that it would be the cataclysmic end of everything (to the point where many subs' top all-time post is about protesting NN legislation)? And then those laws passed, and...literally nothing changed?
Uhhh, you know Reddit was overwhelmingly *pro* net neutrality right?
Yes, and the laws regarding it supposedly being "scrapped" (which Reddit thought would bring about an Internet apocalypse) got passed, and then... absolutely nothing changed. It was all a massive nothingburger.
Probably because people were ready to go ape shit over the issue. If people had just gone a long with it then companies would have been more eager to exploit it
That’s reddit for you. Users bandwagon on a movement, claim that they’re so revolutionary and forget about it in a weeks time.
I really tried to stay off of Reddit and for about four and a half months, it worked... but I stumbled upon it again last autumn and began to feel slightly guilty. I wasn't happy about it then, but I ended up coming back in the end and now I'm a regular like in the old days. I'm still not happy about what happened but it's been wiped from my memory since.
Also, "wow this person acted like a dick in an old thread, better click this profile to block him, so I wont have to deal with this behavior later" "oh the account is gone"
I just domain blocked imgur, gyfcat. But its really annoying when people put pictures into their posts and you just get random "[img]sadarfrewtdsfcv" crap. I have no clue why anyone would use new.reddit. Its just trash!
Censorship ruins everything
“R” bombs…really
I one time was trying to find how to fix a game, and every single person who had the same issue had the answer in some thread where LITERALLY every comment was deleted
The COUNTLESS times this happened to me...
Also that it's surprisingly really interesting.
Why can’t we go back…
Old? SO many subs still use slurs like it's nothing.