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Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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Huffman has said, "We are not in the business of giving that [Reddit's content] away for free." That stance makes sense. But it also ignores the reality that all of Reddit's content has been given to it for free by its millions of users. Further, it leaves aside the fact that the content has been orchestrated by its thousands of volunteer moderators.

touché

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The Reddit API has had (for about 2 years now AFAIK) a soft rate limit of 1 edit per 5 seconds.

Original PowerDeleteSuite doesn't respect that, so most edits get silently dropped.

I ran this fork, which runs only 1 per 5 seconds. Had to leave a browser tab open for a few hours, but it worked.

I first did a 'dry run' to capture all my content to a CSV file (no rate limit), then overwrote every single comment with "[ Deleted to protest Reddit API changes ]"

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