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    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      You did not understand the concept. You cannot “delete” your comments on Reddit. You can mark them as deleted but the comments still exist. If you replace your comments with out of context text like excerpts from War and Peace, then the data scrubbers will pick the data up as good. You are polluting the data set. Do it a few times with different text sources and the scrubbers won’t know what part of your comment history is good.

      Do this and it stops being about privacy and it starts being about actively damaging the data sets.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        They already know that everyone editing old posts is doing it to screw with them.

        As others pointed out they will ignore all edits. Especially edits made after 1 day.

        Losing the rare grammatical fixes or additional info that was changed weeks later doesn’t matter to them. Keeping the version last changed within 1 day of first edit gives them everything they need.

        The only way to mess with reddit would require posting wrong information with a community of like minded redittors that would up vote the bad information.

    • lautan@lemmy.caOP
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      6 months ago

      Wow that’s crazy. You don’t control your own comments anymore.