I might get “cancelled” for this, but hear me out:
If you remove your account bad actors won’t be able to identify you unless they put in the effort. Reddit staff will revert popular comments and posts to the way they were before the Blackout. Mass-scrambling your posts and comments with a “f*ck Spez”, followed by a long chain of "A"s or whatever, annoys people who are just trying to find an answer to something on Reddit, and it doesn’t help anybody except the user’s feelings.
The preservation of information comes above some moral feeling.
Your opinion?

  • healthetank
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    1 year ago

    I definitely don’t agree - I waited until today, then ran Power Delete Suite to replace all my comments with “this comment was removed as part of the protest re:API changes”. It clearly states why the information was removed - I don’t owe Reddit the traffic (however small it might be) of people using it as an information source. If enough people change/delete their comments, reddit loses its status as the go to replacement for actual google results, and people will naturally start to look elsewhere. That is my goal.