CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.
Ouch
As another user pointed out, Reddit started reverting the changes made by scripts like Shreddit. Users that had previously overwritten their content this way must check if it’s still gone.
If the sub was locked, it seems the changes to the comments didn’t take.
Now some subs are starting to consider mass changes as spam, but for my own account I am down to a trickle I can edit by hand easily enough.
Yeah, I got a few spam warnings when I swept my account with Redact, even though I was removing content instead of posting it.
That’s true, but it is also happening with subreddits that were most definitely open and where users had previously confirmed the comment or post was edited.