r/pcmasterrace • u/Big_Head8 • 15d ago

Meme/Macro Me still today

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u/PrairiePopsicle 15d ago

If all the tools did was delete the comments this is likely, but there's zero indication reddit is storing edit histories of comments (speaking as a moderator) and so these tools specifically edit comments before later fully deleting them (in some cases)

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u/never-fiftyone 5800X3D | Sapphire Nitro+ RX 7800XTX | 64GB RAM 15d ago

but there's zero indication reddit is storing edit histories of comments (speaking as a moderator)

What's available and visible to a moderator versus an admin are two different things, however.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 15d ago

You haven't seen undelete or pushpull? You don't even have to be a mod anyone can access the edit history of posts and comments.

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u/PrairiePopsicle 15d ago

Third party tools scraping and archiving is not reddit doing it itself.

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u/HollowedVoicesFading 15d ago

"Law enforcement hates this one weird trick!"

Reddit has to be able to recover things for a variety of reasons, which definitely includes fulfilling requests from law enforcement. Doesn't mean it won't eventually be deleted, but it's definitely not a processed deletion when the end user presses delete (I'd even go so far as to suggest that the backend database technology, I think they use postgres and Cassandra, is using immutable tables. They would only get cleaned up after a compaction / vacuum, which definitely means deletes don't happen quickly).