This could potentially take months. Maybe even longer.
And Google is certain to appeal.
finley
joined 5 months ago
By all means investigate, I’m just saying there has yet to be presented any actual evidence. I look forward to seeing whatever you may discover.
No, it just means that they are no more than ideas at this point
This is not evidence that overwritten and deleted comments could be restored to the original state. Moreover, that points to the original source code of Reddit, not the current code of Reddit.
This is also not evidence that deleted or overwritten and deleted comments have been restored. This is merely evidence that, at one time, this is how deleted comments used to be handled.
All this is evidence of is, as you put it, things are very strange in the code.
Motivation and circumstance, absent actual evidence, does not make for a convincing argument.
this could also be explained by sketchy scripts failing to completely delete posts/comments, which i even noticed myself when checking that they had done their jobs properly. as i mentioned in another comment, i had to run the shredder scripts several times for complete overwrite/deletion. or it could be database errors failing to register edits/deletions due to extremely heavy loads at the time. it could be a lot of things.
the point is that we don't have any direct evidence of what it actually was, just a lot of circumstantial evidence and a lot of speculation. nothing definitive.
as i said in a previous comment:
so, unless reddit did a massive restore of everyone’s comments/posts except for my 4 accounts, then i don’t believe they did it at all except for a select number of top contributors who deleted their content.
but there's no evidence they're keeping everyone's deleted-but-restored comments from public view or whatever it is you're suggesting. or even anything past whaat this one person found. in fact, there isn't even any evidence that what happened to this user was intentional and not a bug or some other fluke.
sure, reddit would have a vested interest in doing this, and what you've presented is suspicious, but it's hardly conclusive of anything. all it does is raise more questions. but it doesn't provide answers.
oh, right. i suppose that's possible. i've seen similar browser cache fuckery on other sites before.
i suspect that was more likely incomplete deletions than reddit restoring content. those scripts were pretty janky. i had to run mine several times to get everything, as it didn't work fully the first couple of times. same with the overwrites. took a few times for those to get everything, especially on older accounts with lots of posts and comments.
there's no evidence to suggest that, either.
You are assuming edits overwrite existing content
i have seen no evidence to suggest otherwise, but thanks for sharing your theories
In fact, it is extremely likely they do this
based on what evidence? your baseless speculation?
Only because Yahoo! isn’t very relevant now, but it was when it happened to them, and due to the similarities, it kinda makes the relevant at the moment.