I’m a little surprised they let me delete my account after they permabanned me, and that deleting my account deleted all of my 18 years-worth of posts and comments (and not just my username/profile). All that data they want to train their bots on, gone (at least publicly, anyway).
I would imagine that your records are flagged as deleted in a DB, but they are still being used to train models for those that are paying.
It does at least stop bots from scraping, but at that point, I’d almost rather have bots scrape just to create more overhead for Reddit and to lessen the value for the people paying for premium access.
Thanks for reminding me. I have to do that before the new TOS kicks in. I just never bothered to do the reset password dance because I don’t care about reddit anymore.
I’m a little surprised they let me delete my account after they permabanned me, and that deleting my account deleted all of my 18 years-worth of posts and comments (and not just my username/profile). All that data they want to train their bots on, gone (at least publicly, anyway).
I would imagine that your records are flagged as deleted in a DB, but they are still being used to train models for those that are paying.
It does at least stop bots from scraping, but at that point, I’d almost rather have bots scrape just to create more overhead for Reddit and to lessen the value for the people paying for premium access.
Same here. Oldest account was 12 years and I had 2 alts.
Got permabanned on main but was still able to delete the account. Deleted my other 2 as well.
I can still browse subs if I want to I just can’t interact. Browsing now doesn’t mean I’ve agreed to anything.
Oh well, these are headaches I’ll never have to worry about
Last bit is key. They would’ve just set it to invisible.
You’re not deleted and nothing is deleted.
Ever been to an old post and it says posted by [deleted]? That’s what Reddit do.
The only route is non-paricipation on the platform
Thanks for reminding me. I have to do that before the new TOS kicks in. I just never bothered to do the reset password dance because I don’t care about reddit anymore.