We reach a new low every day…
Calling him evil is giving him too much credit. I think incompetence and gross negligence better cover it.
Never attribute to malice that which can be easily explained by incompetence or indifference.
Never assume that “malice” and “incompetence” are mutually exclusive.
What’s the TL;DW version?
Basically what we already know. Reddit is restoring comments that have been deleted by users possibly in violation of data privacy laws.
Louis goes a little farther by sharing the story of one particular user who tried multiple ways to delete their content including manually deleting every single comment one by one. Then to answer Reddit’s response that user data is “anonomized” by disassociating it with the user account when the user deletes their account, the user points out that at least one of their posts has their full name in it, and by restoring that post against the user’s wishes, they’ve violated California’s data privacy laws.
He then goes into his typical cynical rant which I personally find entertaining but I know he rubs a lot of people the wrong way.
He also mentioned that Spez edited user content that was critical of him, without any indication to others that he was editing it.
this is why everyone needs to edit all their comments instead of deleting them. i edited all the comments on my 14 year old account using a script. i got banned from like 5 subs in the process - but a few days later still not rolled back
remember the API is liable to change in the next few days… if someone wants to do this they need to do it now while they still can
I used a script to edit mine, and most of them have been reverted multiple times in the last week. Some of them retain my edits, so I keep running the script.
Another user was having a similar problem with Reddit not retaining their edits when running a script. They fixed the issue by putting a time delay of five or six seconds between edits. Not saying this will work for you but might be worth looking into.
That’s the script I was using :(
It’s interesting how much worse this link is faring on the subreddit.
Well, there are way less downvote bots here :p
MUSTERFESTSTELLUNGSKLAGE
I speak German (it’s basically my native language) and I have no idea what that word is meant to mean.
I looked it up and this came up.
I only took introductory German so I have no idea what this is but I think it’s a law or something.
As someone with both a college level understanding of German and an understanding of law, it’s basically a law creating a special type of lawsuit similar but different from a US class action, that Germany passed into law after the 2015 Volkswagen scandal. It tries to incentivize businesses protecting consumers through actual safeguards by punishing companies when they lack them, rather than a class action that arguably has the effect of pressuring companies to be even more misleading or confusing to deliberately avoid liability. How it does this? Probably gonna have to tap in a legal scholar for that one.
