One of the things platforms use to keep us coming back and investing more of our time in building their site for them, is Internet Points. They don’t do anything, but we still crave them.

On Reddit, these Internet Points are, of course, called “karma”

In moving on from Reddit, I’m burning over 80k karma.
It feels fine. I mean, it has no real value, and bots can scrounge up that amount of karma in an afternoon, but it still represents a sizable time investment.

How much are you burning, and how do you feel about it?

  • TWeaKEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    200k+ comment karma, from 75,000 comments. I’ve run PowerDeleteSuite, but it hasn’t quite got everything. I think I need to use the GDPR request csv files to get the comments that don’t display in the profile, but I’m looking for something that will automate this.

    • DemonenOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’ll be filing a GDPR right-to-be-forgotten request, so Reddit has to do it for me.

      • TWeaKEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Make sure you do a GDPR data request first. The csv files contain a lot of stuff (although they don’t contain any associated accounts they believe you have), in particular there are links to every comment. Your profile doesn’t show every single comment you’ve ever made, and if you just delete your account they will delete the user but leave the comments up.

        So you have to do it carefully. PowerDeleteSuite is good, however as I say it only has access to what’s on your profile - many older comments with lower karma will be missed.

        It should be straightforward to use the csv files to extract the links and edit + delete from there, in the same way that PSD does it from the profile, but I’m still looking for something that does that.

        • DemonenOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yep, I’ve already requested that, and when it arrives I’ll likely build something to do it manually if they don’t comply properly with my request to be forgotten. I’d take them to court over it, but meh, I don’t have the energy.

          • TWeaKEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            I don’t think it would be a “take them to court” job - in particular you’d struggle to prove actual damages. However you most definitely can report them to your country’s Information Commissioner’s Office, then leave the matter with them.

            I kind of feel like they’ll just brush it under the rug, though. But really that is the correct course of action.

            • DemonenOPEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’m not talking about suing them for damages. I’m not an american. I’m talking about forcing them to comply with the law and delete me.

              • TWeaKEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                You still can’t take them to court to do that. The way you’d do that is by reporting them to the regulatory body - in this case, your ICO.

                • DemonenOPEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  You’re right, of course.

                  What I mean is that I don’t have the energy to follow up on beraucrecy for months and months. It doesn’t really matter to me what it’s called.

                  It is my experience that this sort of thing either gets a lot of attention, or it comes to nothing. Often both.