Technology

Yeah, the idea is that that user might be less likely to return to Reddit after this frustrating experience, and over time user numbers dwindle.

We are not punishing internet users like you wrote, we are punishing reddit users.

Yes, people get frustrated when reddit is not good anymore and that's exactly what reddit deserves. A frustrated user will look for other places and not use reddit.

There has been many sites before reddit alienating it's user base. Many are forgotten now by young people. Reddit won't die over night, it's a slow process of just losing more and more popularity.

That's not quite how ads work.

You get fractions of a cent for displaying them, but the majority of the money comes from clicking, and the CTR (click-through-ratio) is how advertisers measure success.

If you've got the full solution on one page, users are more likely to engage in ads. If they follow a link off-site first and continue there, they are unlikely to engage.

What if goal is to make reddit search results a frustrating experience that people start doing - reddit

Where is the downvote button on lemmy?

• you can visit cache page until it expired or replaced by recent ones.
• users that contributed more wiki/fag like posts/comments probably archives their comment somewhere before they delete them.
• there is always alternative when the previous one shutdown or closed due to reasons.
• the find me on lemmy with instance tag is a valid way to redirect the user. (so long as reddit don't auto mod those messages into nothing.)

It's what I used to erase my account. Worked flawlessly to delete 8 years of comments and threads.

I'm still going to do it. If nothing else to cost Reddit the time and expense of restoring from backup.

Someone on Hackernews coined to use AI to generate random text and replace existing comments with threat, which I find really interesting. They won’t be able to restore those comments

WHAT?! That is a new low, even for steve

Seems like there's some cages being rattled at Reddit HQ regardless of what spez claims.

I've already ran the script two more times since. Thankfully it was only posts from last week after I made the big purge, but I will make sure to come back to keep them deleted if they get restored again.