So I ran Power Delete Suite as I periodically do. I have it configured to edit a comment and then delete it. It deletes comments that are older than 1 week old.
What was unusual was that within minutes I got the red envelope. And looking at it there was a response to a comment that I wrote 2 years ago.
So first thing is that as many were saying Reddit undeletes comments. I initially ignored that I saw some comments that I thought were deleted, but I assume it was because subreddits were locked and that's why they were invisible to Power Delete Suite, but this was on r/programming which was unlocked for quite some time (not sure if it ever was locked).
Second thing is the response within minutes.
So my 2 year old comment still exists and it's not showing up on my profile. I wouldn't even know about it is not for that response.
Of course this could be a coincidence, the account that responded to me is 9 years old, the content of it seems normal, although I saw comments on r/ChatGPT.
Though the timing bugs me off. If the comment is not from a real person maybe when Reddit restored it the AI code thought it was a new comment and responded to it.
Another thing that contributes to my suspicion of chatbots being deployed is that I noticed since the API protest and after they unlocked subreddits is that I get more upvotes and more responses than I used to.
Anyone observed something similar?
5 Comments
noodlejetski@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
reddit only shows a certain number of the most recent comments on your profile - I wanna say 1000, but I might be completely wrong about the specific number. PowerDeleteSuite only works on your profile page, so it won't delete or replace comments that aren't shown there anymore.
thantik@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Reddit started off with fake engagement in order to grow the site, so I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if more than half of the site was engagement bots running around. They likely have an entire suite of tools for such a thing.
RustyShackleford@literature.cafe · 6 pts · 2y
Same. Recently got an email for a comment I deleted, it was extremely hostile and strange considering the age of the original post.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 2y
My old comments did not show in my profile. I made a data access request and deleted them with a script. Google searches on my username confirms the comments are now gone.
Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
Interesting. Didn't notice anything similar, but I only edited my comments last June and haven't touched them since