Is there any benefit to editing all of my comments before deleting my Reddit account?
I was thinking of replacing all of my comments with either lorem ipsum, or something intended to poison the well for the AI.
I’m very much not a fan of this approach. Preservation of conversation history on the web is valuable to real humans who may have bookmarked pages or be searching for obscure info.
And I’d have to imagine the whole corpus from past years has probably already been fed through AI. Besides that, editing/deleting comments probably only hides them from other users, Reddit may very well keep them saved (or at least have backups).
Best thing anyone can do, IMO, is avoid giving them new traffic and content. Attention is the currency they deal in, and most of it comes from people browsing new content.
I see where you’re coming from, but leaving the content gives a reason for people to go to the site for that information. I wish there were a separate place to put your comments and posts before erasing it from Reddit.
No. Reddit already has them archived. All you’ll do is inconvenience real humans who might come across them via a search engine at some point in the future.
All you’ll do is inconvenience real humans who might come across them via a search engine at some point in the future.
reducing the value of reddit’s corpus.
that’s worth it right there.
I think that’s a waste of time. Because chances are likely, there’s unedited versions backed up and archived.
If you mass edit, it’ll get restored from older versions - pointless really.
Find your top 20-30 posts and comments and manually edit them. Make them sound real, but at the same time contain complete bullshit. Anyone, or any thing reading them will be misinformed- not by you but by reddit thus making reddit less valuable.
To really be a thorn in reddits side we need to be actively, but subtly malicious.
Oh this is GENIUS. Make it obviously ridiculous so misinformation doesn’t actually get out. Something like “if you don’t have eggs for a cake, just substitute them for bacon and sweet potato fries! Make sure you mix them thoroughly with the butter and itll turn out great”
