My old Reddit account gets regularly scrubbed because Reddit keeps restoring shit. First, all posts get deleted (again), then all comments get replaced with crap, and after a few months, they too get deleted.
A mod looked at my profile and couldn’t wrap his little brain around it. Hundreds of thousands of comments and post karma, but no posts. How? LOL
Before the API fiasco … weren’t there several services that regularly archived entire communities and sections of the the site … it was easy for third parties to just collect and archive everything continuously.
It was so easy that sites had real-time archives within a few minutes of each post. Anything not removed or deleted immediately was liable to show up there.
Fuckin’ RIP web 2.0.