but TBH i also wiped all my comments clean using powerdeletesuite
Ask here in lemmy.
I posted a question a couple of days ago in Windows 98 community. After submitting the post, I noticed last post submitted was 2 years ago.
I felt down and thought about deleting the post but to my surprise I got an answer in an hour or so.
Posted a question to lemdro.id last week and sofar only got useless bot replies that seemed to have scrolled previous reddit posts about the same question.
edit: to fix bad phone autocorrect.
I’m not expecting the same results to be always similar to my experience or at least positive.
Also, I’d stick to popular instances since I’d expect moderators to be stricter than random instances when it comes to bots.
Some communities decided to have a separate instance such as piracy iirc.
lemdro.id is quite strict regarding bots, I run it! I’m not sure what post they were referring to since I can’t see it in their history
This is one of the bots that responded. I did a “bad bot” type reply to it and it delete or someone delete it’s post. https://lemdro.id/u/GPT4
I dont particularly have an issue with bots and this one is clearly marked a bot. The main issue is that it just searched and summarized the top 10 reddit answers to the same question which I had already done… Im sure the bot didnt break any of the bot rules. It’s just that bots dont generally give good answers to questions without refinement to the parameters. If I was directly using ChatGPT I’m sure I could get it to give an acceptable answer to most questions. But a random bot giving a general answer is not much use. (To me at least).
Sometimes people just dont have answers to the questions… Bots always do sadly even when they are not correct.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I asked around and this is actually ran by one of the other admins on the instance. They generate the responses manually and then paste them as a comment. The account is marked as a bot so that users can disable showing bot accounts in their profile settings.
I know this doesn’t functionally change your point, but Lemdro.id is still growing (over 10k subscribers now…), so hopefully you can get some better answers in the future.
chicken face badger dumptruck jungle hard-disk label mango - I havent redacted anything, just the after effects of a stroke.
Is this your crypto key?
correct horse battery staple
I understood that reference.
Damnit! I just went to check some old posts I made to see if Redact had deleted my comments before I deleted my account and it didn’t…
A few days after the API changes were announced, a massive number of old-reddit pages were archived. Technically-minded people should have no issue finding the original comments.
Unfortunately, this comment is only 4 months old, which means it isn’t in the data that is separated nicely in individual subreddit files. Instead it requires parsing through a massive 151GB file. Let’s see how long it takes me to get the edited comments.
Bold to assume most people going to Reddit for answers to questions are technically-minded.
This guy’s taking a screenshot of a thread on r/HomeAssistant looking for advice on how to reverse proxy multiple services at their gateway router so they can access their self-hosted HomeAssistant and NextCloud from different subdomains at the same IP address.
Pretty sure they’re a technical user.
But yeah in general it sucks but I’d consider Reddit a dead resource at this point. But, if you do find content there that is useful, REPOST IT HERE. Let’s make this place useful for nontechnical users!
This is why I haven’t touched any of my own comments
Me as well. I’ve been in situations where complete strangers online have answered and helped me so many times regarding problems I’ve had, so I’ve tried to return the favor through reddit and other platforms. I have no intention of doing this, this is just… mean IMO. You open the link in hope of finding an answer and you run into… this 😒.
While as a user it sucks that is exactly the reasons people do it. It takes the value away from reddit, if the content that users want to see it not there people will not go there.
What I find the best compromise is users that take their comments they had on reddit and post them again as it’s own post to lemmy with the context needed. While not perfect the information is at least not lost completely and a google search in the future might actually bring someone to a lemmy instance instead of to a corporation like reddit. But that is obviously a lot of work to do, especially if you have lot of helpful comments on reddit.
You know how I joined reddit? None of the reasons everyone else might have, it just looked like a cool place. No one uses it where I live, except a few hundred people.
That being said, this was after years and years of me leeching off of comments on reddit. So, I thought I’d give the community something back… it’s only fair. I come from the forum scene, that’s how forums work. And let’s be honest, no matter how much we started hating a place, we never did this back in the day. Why? The info shared in those posts is probably more valuable than whatever we’re trying to achieve by doing this.
Of course, it’s your choice, your account. I’m just saying that I think it’s selfish and mean and that I would never do it. The free flow of info is what keeps the net going. You start tempering with that and you’re just fueling more users into mass media (if everyone did this, users can’t find any info about anything they’re troubleshooting and just return to doomscrolling on FB/IG/Twitter).
LMAO I’m dying.
I wonder how many people did this. I did, and deleted my posts as well. But I was mostly a lurker there and so my edits and deletes didn’t really mean anything.
So all you’re saying is that deleting your posts to get the engagement down works perfectly?
Nuking your comments doesn’t hurt Reddit or Spez, it just hurts other users who are looking for the answers that you gave. If you want to leave Reddit, it’s better to just leave
By hurting potential users looking for the naswrdz you’ve diminished the usefulness of the site.
It’s a long play. frankly nobody wins and everyone loses.
the naswrdz
The only answer I’m looking for is how did you manage this typo 😉
(Also, you’re right)
