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by al_borland
27 days ago
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It sounds like this practice is having the intended effect. To hurt Reddit’s reputation for a place to find answers, after their repeated moves to prioritize the advertisers and shareholders over the users who created all the content and made the site what it was. Killing the API, killing 3rd party apps, pushing users on mobile to their app, pushing users to the new UI, littering the site with ads, modals, and general dark patterns… the list goes on. For what it’s worth, I think the comment editing was originally a practice shared by Reddit itself, back when people still liked them. If a user was going to delete a comment and wanted it truly gone, it should be edited first before deleting, to make sure what is left in the DB doesn’t still have the data the user was trying to delete. Back when this was shared, the expectation was that the comment would be deleted anyway, so the edit didn’t really matter. Now that they are blocking deletes, people can see how much this actually happens. With Reddit being a popular source for LLMs, I wonder how this will impact training as well, and if that will hurt the value of their data. |
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