Today, not in a moment of necessity, but a moment of protest, I logged in to Reddit because I found tons of comments and posts listed on old Reddit when you sort by top or controversial.
I logged in to Reddit to destroy even more of my comments that were missed by Power Delete Suite.
It seems a lot of people are doing this. I’ve seen some interesting stuff here and Reddit with screenshots of deleted comments with “this solved my problem” below the deletion.
The way I look at it, ALL of my content was posted via Apollo, just like all of my comments and posts are through WefWef here. If Reddit admins felt the API shouldn’t be free, then my submissions are also not free for them to monetize and get traffic from.
I know for a fact I’ve had 100+ #1 ranked longtail SEO posts in Reddit before I deleted everything. Many of them were getting tons of traffic based on the amount of follow-up private messages received years later.
I do expect Reddit’s traffic to go down as a whole because of everyone leaving but also because of how many removed their content.
That IPO of theirs is going so well.
I was active on several subs with a known username and had some high karma r/askhistorians posts. No ragrets.
I tried to deleted mine as well.
Then I searched my username via Google and found a ton of comments that were not deleted.
Yep. I’m just periodically running a delete script and getting a few at a time at this point.
Removed by mod
Haha, I once had a post removed for being too scientific. :( I was explaining a climate shift that would have caused people to wear different things at the time. I’m hoping to move some of these like that one to a blog in time.