Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subred…
“Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things,” Huffman said. “We are not in the business of giving that away for free.”
“But we we do ask that the people talking about things give us a perpetual irrevocable license to all the IP they share here until the universe fizzles out into nothingness, and the people moderating our site do so for free because being in my Speztastic presence is enough.” -Spez, probably
Exactly. I really enjoyed posting on reddit, but the idea that they see our comments as a trove of data to monetize at the expense of the community that created it really makes me never want to contribute again. Too bad I made the mistake of not deleting all of my comments or replacing them with junk when deleting my account :/
I will give Reddit the benefit of the doubt because even though they are acting pretty badly, restoring user-deleted comments sounds to me like an even higher level of incompetence.
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Real Nestlé moment from Spez.
Sure is in the business of TAKING it for free, though!
“But we we do ask that the people talking about things give us a perpetual irrevocable license to all the IP they share here until the universe fizzles out into nothingness, and the people moderating our site do so for free because being in my Speztastic presence is enough.” -Spez, probably
Exactly. I really enjoyed posting on reddit, but the idea that they see our comments as a trove of data to monetize at the expense of the community that created it really makes me never want to contribute again. Too bad I made the mistake of not deleting all of my comments or replacing them with junk when deleting my account :/
Sounds like deleting your comments wouldn’t have done any good, considering others are saying their comments are being undeleted.
Woah, that’s new to me. And sounds very illegal. Are these reports credible?
EDIT: I found a discussion on the topic here, which presents some alternatives to explain why the comments appeared to be restored: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/34112/Heads-up-Reddit-is-quietly-restoring-deleted-AND-overwritten-posts-and
I will give Reddit the benefit of the doubt because even though they are acting pretty badly, restoring user-deleted comments sounds to me like an even higher level of incompetence.
I just hope they are setting themselves up for a massive class lawsuit for GDPR violations.