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If you're overwriting your comments on Reddit: (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by archomrade@midwest.social to c/technology@midwest.social

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If you're using a script to do so, make sure it's handling API limits specifically for "edit" calls. I realized after I tried overwriting mine that it was quietly skipping a bunch of comments, presumably because there is (allegedly) a 1 edit call per 5 second rate limit. Since adding a 5 second delay between each re-write, it seems to be working for me.

I ran into this issue with u/j0be's Power Delete Suite, I ended up writing my own script to do the job.

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[–] MagicBarry@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think something like

"Comment removed in protest of Reddit's API policy"

is best because if non-Redditors stumble across it it might dissuade them from joining Reddit. It is also very clear as to why you are unhappy.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

This is what I did. I also added some stats about the account: account age, total karma, # of comments, ect. Otherwise it's not clear how much value is being lost if you just come across the comment in the wild.