madlad
Perhaps that best idea to mess with reddit
Or mess with yourself when a very wrong person buys it and they’ve your IP logged countless times. You might get away if you tell them that you were hacked, but there might be some trouble and a need for a new door.
Smart idea, I just deleted them, I bet my oldest would have fetched a good price. Ah well.
Before you do that. Anyone ever done a GDPR request and seen what type of data is provided? Is it just comments and posts or some more extra user identifying details like ip addresses used and outbound clicks and so on?
I’m in the process of doing that right now, it’s been a few days since I asked for the data request, they’re yet to get back to me.
Edit: almost 2 weeks later and nothing! Edit numero dos: July 3rd, finally received my data.
I heard on discord that apparently reddit has like 1 guy handling all the GDPR requests and that they are swamped right now. If it’s true it might be a while. I also heard on r/privacy that reddit was putting old deleted posts back online, so deleting your account isn’t a very reliable option it seems.
That seems like a massive GDPR violation of its true. I’m sure there are some class action lawyers out there who’s love to know if this is true…
Supposedly they have 30 days to comply with GDPR requests, and the theory is they’re waiting until 1 July such that people can no longer use the GDPR files with things like shreddit to edit/delete everything through the API.
I wasn’t referring to the lack of response. But undeleting posts by a user who deleted their account seems like a data retention violation.
mygod what a shitshow
It contains 31 CSV files, including evert comment, post, everything. Except which alt accounts they think you also have. There’s one for any Twitter accounts you’ve linked, and it has files for everything you’ve voted on.
The real benefit of getting it is you can use the post and comment CSV files with the github version of shreddit (the website version charges you $15) and actually delete everything. PowerDeleteSuite only gets the content on your profile, under New, Hot, Top & Controversial, where each list is limited in size - old comments with lower karma will be excluded.
Also reddit has been restoring deleted content. This may be to do with how reddit CDN servers work, rather than something intentional, but it’s scummy regardless. You have to do it over several days to make sure you get everything.
A full list of what I got:
- account_gender.csv
- approved_submitter_subreddits.csv
- chat_history.csv
- checkfile.csv
- comments.csv
- comment_headers.csv
- comment_votes.csv
- drafts.csv
- friends.csv
- gilded_comments.csv
- gilded_posts.csv
- hidden_posts.csv
- ip_logs.csv
- linked_identities.csv (this was empty for me, but obviously they do know my alts as they banned those as well as my main)
- linked_phone_number.csv
- message_headers.csv
- messages.csv
- moderated_subreddits.csv
- multireddits.csv
- poll_votes.csv
- post_headers.csv
- posts.csv
- reddit_gold_information.csv
- saved_comments.csv
- saved_posts.csv
- scheduled_posts.csv
- statistics.csv
- subscribed_subreddits.csv
- twitter.csv
- user_preferences.csv
I’ve seen them on playerup dot com slash accounts slash redditaccounts
How much are they going for?
50 cents to 100 bucks asking prices, a 3k+ karma 6 month one was listed and sold for $14 yet a “150 comment” (whatever that means) sold for $50. Those are just the ones with “SOLD” on them. Kinda wish I didn’t delete my oldest ones now :/
That’s pretty interesting, but it doesn’t seem like enough money to be worth the shadiness of the whole thing.
The buyer would probably be into some shady stuff and they will come looking for me. Haha I guess I’m just too paranoid.
I feel like theyll use the accounts for corpo astrosurfing, if anything.
What’s the worst that can happen - you can always proof you sold it to law enforcement - the only thing you did is break reddits AGB so they can bam the account that’s not yours anymore
Having to deal with law enforcement is not worth the $100.
Like, they are going to charge you and you will have to prove it in court probably. Then they may try to claim that you had an existing relationship with the person you sold it to. Then have a jury trial and hope for the best.
I mean that’s highly unlikely, but $100 is not worth that potential.
Being charged and having to show up in court seems like the smaller issues. Cops breaking down your door and seizing all electronic devices, giving them back god knows when and with god knows what data remaining, new stuff in there is far worse imo.
I don’t live in America, but use an American bank. I’d imagine that I’d have to fly back and forth all the time to deal with it. I didn’t even consider have my stuff seized.
As an American that alone would land you in trouble for violating CFAA (computer fraud and abuse act). The IS govt. has charged people under the CFAA for much less.
You can use services like Shredding to clear your account before the sale then it’s just an empty account but still has the age and karma
Thanks!
A lot of people have had complaints about never receiving payouts. I don’t think this is a good idea.
Now i regret having deleted my 8 years old account, that’s a beer money
What a great idea
Antichat board has section to sell such stuff. You’ll have to browse it through translator though
i’ve seen some on forums, just search for aged accounts for sale. But be careful, because those bots are usually bought by:
- crypto scammers
- election disinformation groups. and sold by some shady sellers residing in some sanctioned countries.
Aged reddit accounts don’t worth much though, 2000 karma goes for like 20 bucks max, probably lot lower.
So, is it worth selling it for 20 - 30 bucks that might come around to scam your parents, sway your election, or maybe even getting yourself on some watchlist.
11 years, a username with no numbers, and over 120k Karma is worth a lot more, but I’d rather keep that handle in tact rather than change it everywhere unless it was a truly stupid amount of money, like erase all my debts money. I have been offered (very low) 5 figures more than once. No way of knowing how serious those offers were though, could easily have been scams.
10 years and 150K karma, I probably wouldn’t sell it but would love to know how much its worth.
I’ll give you a buck fifty
“I made a G today” “But you made it in a sleazy way”
I don’t have much moral quarrel with crypto scammers compared to election disinformation. They only affect people dumb enough to fall for it.
Election disinformation potentially affects a whole country.
EDIT: added compared to election disinformation.
“I don’t care about protecting the vulnerable. They deserve it. You know, for being vulnerable.”
Well you have a point. I was trying to say that crypto scams aren’t nearly as harmful as election disinformation is.
