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[–] 50 points 5 months ago (12 children)

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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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months 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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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's called poisoning the data

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    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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