If it’s entirely pointless.. then why is there a bot to stop it?

It’s entirely pointless to stop something that is entirely pointless.

Waybackmachine has your comments anyway so there's no point in deleting them.

The hottest of hot takes.

You should tell them you’d rather people go to those other websites to see your comments than to give Reddit their business.

The fact that this bot exists at all makes me think this is actually a bigger problem for Reddit than I would have guessed.

I got insta banned from /r/steamdeck when I overwrote a comment. I didn't actually break any sub rules as far as I could tell... I messaged them to thank them for helping to galvanize my decision to vacate the premises

That’s a canned response. I would regularly overwrite and delete my comments but some subs take offense to it for whatever reason. They either don’t get the point or they are trying to gaslight you with “it doesn’t matter anyway” bullshit

That's the point... we don't want them accessing our comments on Reddit. Nobody gives a fuck about our comments appearing on some other archive website... What a ridiculous take someone programmed into this bot.

Reminder that just because it came from a mod or admin, doesn't mean they aren't completely and entirely wrong. Whoever programmed this response just objectively wrong here. Sometimes it'll just straight perma ban you instead knowing you're trying to mass delete your posts lol.

Bonkers!! I can't believe how angry so many people are about people switching platforms 🙄

Are the automated tools still working? I couldn’t get them to work on the last few weeks of comments in my remaining account.

The mods on the history sub have always been shit. No surprise they'd setup a smarmy bot response.

Even if there are alternative ways to see the content of the comments, making it more difficult to access that content still does something and isn't pointless. The average person isn't going to go through the trouble of checking the wayback machine or some other external archive, or download any add-ons or what have you to undelete or unedit comments. Not unless they already know that the comment said something they're interested in enough to put in that extra effort, which is going to be a pretty small selection of people who might but probably won't look into your comments unprompted to begin with anyway.

I think it is worth it to save the content on reddit. I don't think it is worth it to save reddit. That's why I've joined the ArchiveTeam's effort, so you can safely delete and overwrite you posts and comments.

At least it helped delete a post for you? I guess?

Wow are they desperate.