I think I finally reached my breaking point with reddit (about time). Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover. A day or so later I mistakenly posted on the sub using my secondary account. That’s on me. The /r/teslamotors admins gave me a permaban and reddit gave me 7 day site ban. I can take my lumps so whatever.
However, apparently I commented today on /r/teslamotors using the account that received the permaban. Dumbass reddit gave me another 7 day site ban for ban evasion. WTF? Either a software bug allowed me to comment or /r/teslamotors lifted my ban for some reason.
Neither of those constitute ban evasion IMHO. I’m also tired of using old.reddit.com in phone browser since they killed apis.
That’s why I’m here! I scrubbed my comment and post history with Redact this morning. I’d like to think that will prevent them feeding my comments/posts into AI model but I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually use the pre-scrubbed versions.
I would bet that when they signed the deal to use Reddit user posts to train AI they either had already or at that time made a snapshot of everything that would have been considered the base state of the product. They also must have made backups at some point in Reddit’s history that they could refer back to. Hell, they might upsell that in their training data as “Reddit Classic: Before the Diggpocalypse” and “Steve Huffman’s modlog from that period of time that he was the moderator of /r/jailbait.”
You know they also keep every version of a post so its trivially easy for them to grab the last non-redacted version.