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Comment by account42

16 hours ago

Have you ever looked at an old reddit comment thread.

  + Hey how do you do thing?
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  -+ [deleted]
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   -+ Thanks, that's just what I needed.

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mothballed  15 hours ago

Reddit will delete anything remotely controversial if it contains referenced facts. They banned and deleted my account for simply stating the 5th amendment prohibits requiring incriminating yourself to exercise a right. An Ivy League educated lawyer dug up the comment one year after I posted it, told reddit I was distributing illegal legal advice, and had my whole account nuked.

  • stevenwoo  6 hours ago

    I got suspended for criticizing the state of Israel’s treatment of civilians in occupied territories, but they didn’t delete my account, though I stopped logging in after a week. (Logging in retains your subscriptions). I've seen plenty of similar comments to mine so I assume it was the work of some oddball who I responded to that has an connection to somebody who works there so they could pull some strings to suspend my account.

  • hparadiz  36 minutes ago

    My real name account got banned for quoting something someone else said. Pretty hilarious in hindsight.

  • dredmorbius  4 hours ago

    Reddit users also very frequently delete accounts and/or content.

    • retired  43 minutes ago

      After a shadow ban none of my old comments were visible anywhere on Reddit.

      So I deleted all my content. If people can’t view my content, why have it online?

  • markdown  5 hours ago

    Nah, it's rare to see [deleted].

    More common is seeing "tumble cup and he ran flew tree" due to users using anonymizing apps to remove their old data.