Archived How many of you came here because of the recently enacted/updated Reddit privacy agreement? (AskVoat)
submitted ago by G4
Posted by: G4
Posting time: 4.9 years ago on
Last edit time: never edited.
Archived on: 2/12/2017 1:51:00 AM
Views: 962
SCP: 53
54 upvotes, 1 downvotes (98% upvoted it)
Archived How many of you came here because of the recently enacted/updated Reddit privacy agreement? (AskVoat)
submitted ago by G4
Sort: Top
[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
I deleted my account right before it took effect.
[–] frankenmine 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
I hope you used one of these scripts:
https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/740235
Those of you who haven't deleted their reddit accounts yet, but are considering doing so, should definitely use one of these scripts.
Edit: Notifying @PeaceSeeker, @2stix.
[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer ago
I tried all of them and none worked.
[–] Karbuster 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Literally just nuked my account
[–] 3769125? ago
Arotaes, I never bothered deleting my account before (I just stopped using it); how ought one to go about removing one's account completely from the reddit database? I remember reading posts before about truly eliminating accounts, everything that such accounts had posted, etc., but I don't recall the steps
[–] Avnomke 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You have to edit all your posts so they don't contain anything, then delete your account.
There's a way to automate this, I think it's called shreddit or something.
[–] geovoat 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago (edited ago)
Well i switched my homepage to voat instead of reddit because that was just the last straw.
The others are i just rarely see anything new there anymore. I would rather see 400 outrageous posts i dont agree with and one new one i do learn something from than just stuff i have seen over and over that are the only things that make it through the multiple censorship layers there now.
Honestly the hoops you have to jump through just to post anything over there now are ridiculous. Every single sub has somercane rule list to follow.
And when you do post there seem to be 500 fake accounts ready to pounce on you with prescripted responses unless you say bill gates is great and nuclear power will save the world. Literally always the same arguments.
Also it got so all the best posts were in the subs that contained the deleted posts for other subs. Like /undelete and /removalbot
[–] MRPockets 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
I did. Deleted my account and created my Voat account on 1/1/16. I tried to convince the members of r/privacy to leave Reddit because of the new privacy policy but basically got laughed off and called a shill. Of all the people on Reddit who ought to have been concerned, r/privacy should have been at the forefront of the protesters...
[–] CarlTheMagician 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
I found out about the policy change shortly after I came to voat. The desire to leave came after three failed submissions to ELI5 on a harmless and miniscule question. Twice the auto moderator removed my posts for improper formatting and when the third one finally went through I was berated for asking a question that had already been asked before. Scant minutes later I learned that my submission was removed on the grounds of the question having been previously asked. If I just wanted an answer, I could have gone to Google for that, I asked on ELI5 to foster a dialog, fuck me right?
It was just shitty, and unnecessarily authoritarian. After that I took a look at my user account and realized that so much of it was regurgitated quotes and memes, with no real content or anything worthwhile to say. That was when I realized how much wasted effort reddit had become for me.
[–] pandabill 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Those of you who haven't yet deleted your accounts, you should really do so. That's the only way to make them understand.
[–] DickHertz 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
If you're saying goodbye who cares what they understand?
[–] Thewholworld 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
I came here right about when reddit banned fat people hate - not because I agree with fph but because they still derserve to be heard.
Everything I've heard about reddit since only makes me miss it less. And yet I wouldn't mind if most of the idiots over there stayed there, and didn't muck up this corner of the internet
[–] 2stix 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What's the difference between me deleting my Reddit account and me just not using it?
[–] 1d3 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
By editing all posts and deleting the account, Reddit no longer has any content or information on you worth selling. As it is now, Reddit keeps selling everything they can of yours to everyone they can find who wants it.
It's nothing big, just if you don't want Reddit to make any more money off of the content you added to the site and information you revealed about yourself.
Edit: They'd probably keep selling the profile they already built on you, I'm not sure but I'd guess you accepted this in a previous privacy agreement.
[–] 2stix 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago (edited ago)
Ohhhh, thanks, I was totally unaware that they sell that kind of information! Edit; So if I deleted my account, does it actually delete from their servers etc or does it just stop me being able to log in and show that the account was deleted on posts I had put up?
[–] un_salamandre ago
Oh man, what have they done now?