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Nothing will change my decision now. The trust is permanently broken and the damage is irreversible.
They've shown that they won't hesitate to kick out mods at a whim even when it goes against the community's wishes. Even if the API changes are walked back, Spez resigns and the company apologises, that's no longer enough to undo what they've destroyed. Reddit is done.
I was originally going to simply delete my Reddit account on the 30th. After seeing the farce unravel, I'm also going to nuke all content I've created on that platform at the same time. Scorched earth seems to be the only answer now and it's the least I can do after the continued disrespect they've shown to their users, mods and especially the third party app devs. They're nothing without the communities and the content that they've produced.
in case anyone wants to know how to do this
I do not recommend Redact. Reddit cuts it off after rewriting fewer than 20 comments. If I have to manually edit thousands of comments, I will; but I'd rather automate it.
Shreddit doesn't seem to do mass edits, just deletions. Edits are safer than deletions (which Reddit seems to be restoring) and send a stronger message.
I'm looking into Power Delete Suite now.
EDIT: Ok, so Power Delete Suite gets blocked by Reddit's rate-limiting. Thankfully, it's Open Source, so I copied the code into ViolentMonkey and wrapped the pd.children.edit internals in a setTimeout() with a 2000ms delay, and that has been running successfully for hours (I also added a handler to alert me if I got any rate-limit messages in the response text, just-in-case).
let me know about your research. i'm looking to do this in the next couple of days. i found that comment on reddit. i've worked with the reddit api before and presumably i could make my own script to do it.. but there are probably complications i'm not aware of that these tools have had to deal with
be careful, they are restoring deleted posts and comments. rewrite your comments to nonsense or a protest message with redact or power suite delete