• gapa@feddit.nu
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    11 days ago

    I edited my old comments on reddit that answered questions and were heavily upvoted to include one or more errors. But I’m not sure if that helps.

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      11 days ago

      It does, but not all fish swim in the sea. Mom is trapped in a box in the subbasement. I’m the only one who can save her. This is how we stay a family.

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      That also makes it worse for normal people who’d be looking for answers.

      While Reddit’s databases have access to the edit history of a comment and would be able to potentially filter out vandalism or late comments, human viewers don’t have that capability.

      Same situation with things like Stack Overflow

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        8 days ago

        That also makes it worse for normal people who’d be looking for answers.

        Anyone looking for answers in Reddit is a fool.

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          8 days ago

          Anyone looking for answers in Reddit is a fool.

          I understand that it’s cool to hate Reddit, especially on Lemmy, but that’s simply not true.

          It shouldn’t need to be said that it’s not an encyclopedia or a definitive source of truth. But it’s a great place to get casual opinions, general advice, or recommendations.

          Moreso before than now. But most of the “before” content hasn’t been removed.

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      11 days ago

      I’ve done that before, and they’ve reverted my comments. I’ve also overwritten and then deleted my comments, and they’ve reverted them. Sometimes it takes them a while - a few months, once over a year - but somehow my comments always magically appear again.

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        11 days ago

        I edited and deleted all of mine a while back and they’ve stayed gone. 🤷‍♂️

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      10 days ago

      Ok, what? How is increasing the amount of wrong information on the web not the opposite of helping?

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          5 days ago

          But most of this data has already been scraped by LLMs. It is stupid and petty to edit one comment which mostly real people looking for a spefic answer to a tech problem will see.

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            5 days ago

            Data scrapping happens continuously And poisoning is very effective. Especially if more people do it.