For the record, the comment was made 2 months back and had 4 upvotes.
You spoke the truth. They could not handle it.
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I mean, did you expect a different outcome?
TBH, it does make sense: Posting a legitimate comment and then editing it after a while is a popular tactic of spammers. Post something, get the top spot and after the post has gone out of the popular queues, edit in your personal spam links and profit from all the sweet traffic coming via Google -> Reddit -> Your site
Yes, you are doing something different here, but for an automated moderating system that looks exactly like a spam attack. Overwrite existing comments with the same post & edit in an external link.
And sadly you need those automated tools as a Reddit mod and if Lemmy is keeping it’s growth, we will need them here, too. Spammers will come and they totally will overwhelm moderators trying to do it manually.
What tool can I use for mass overwriting? It seems the last tool I used wasn’t good enough and reddit has restored some of them/ didn’t display them that their update now shows
I’m using this:
Thanks fren!
How do the local backups work? I’m interested in defacing my profile, but still want to preserve some things I find useful.
So you have options, there is also shreddit
Amazing
