So I ran Power Delete Suite as I periodically do. I have it configured to edit a comment and then delete it. It deletes comments that are older than 1 week old.
What was unusual was that within minutes I got the red envelope. And looking at it there was a response to a comment that I wrote 2 years ago.
So first thing is that as many were saying Reddit undeletes comments. I initially ignored that I saw some comments that I thought were deleted, but I assume it was because subreddits were locked and that’s why they were invisible to Power Delete Suite, but this was on r/programming which was unlocked for quite some time (not sure if it ever was locked).
Second thing is the response within minutes.
So my 2 year old comment still exists and it’s not showing up on my profile. I wouldn’t even know about it is not for that response.
Of course this could be a coincidence, the account that responded to me is 9 years old, the content of it seems normal, although I saw comments on r/ChatGPT.
Though the timing bugs me off. If the comment is not from a real person maybe when Reddit restored it the AI code thought it was a new comment and responded to it.
Another thing that contributes to my suspicion of chatbots being deployed is that I noticed since the API protest and after they unlocked subreddits is that I get more upvotes and more responses than I used to.
Anyone observed something similar?
reddit only shows a certain number of the most recent comments on your profile - I wanna say 1000, but I might be completely wrong about the specific number. PowerDeleteSuite only works on your profile page, so it won’t delete or replace comments that aren’t shown there anymore.
Reddit started off with fake engagement in order to grow the site, so I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if more than half of the site was engagement bots running around. They likely have an entire suite of tools for such a thing.
Same. Recently got an email for a comment I deleted, it was extremely hostile and strange considering the age of the original post.
My old comments did not show in my profile. I made a data access request and deleted them with a script. Google searches on my username confirms the comments are now gone.
Interesting. Didn’t notice anything similar, but I only edited my comments last June and haven’t touched them since
