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View submission: Reddit’s 2017 transparency report and suspect account findings
943: Save 1 point for my mother, who I think would enjoy watching.
In all seriousness, we feel somewhat vindicated. We have avoided collecting personal information since the beginning—sometimes to the detriment of our business—and will continue to do so going forward.
Comment by -null at 10/04/2018 at 23:36 UTC*
180 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Serious follow up question to your "collecting information" reply. If I go back and edit a comment to "blah" and then delete it, is it truly gone or only stored as "blah" in your databases... or is it just a logical delete? Do you store each version of a comment? I work in/around Fortune 100 IT stuff and for any database on the scale of reddit I've ever seen would maintain each version of a comment as it was edited.
Can you confirm you don't actually retain previous versions of an edited comment?
Comment by CharlysRatStick at 10/04/2018 at 22:15 UTC
679 upvotes, 10 direct replies
Spez.
I am a constant skeptic and am just so tired of having to worry about what’s being collected and what’s not being collected.
It takes a lawyer today to really figure out what the hell is going on in each ToS for each platform you join- it would take hours to assess everything by oneself.
For once, I’m going to take your word for it. I heard a saying the other day, “Better to be a rube than an asshole.”
I hope a few people in Silicon Valley still have their souls.
Comment by [deleted] at 11/04/2018 at 01:03 UTC*
28 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by Realtrain at 10/04/2018 at 21:40 UTC
459 upvotes, 13 direct replies
Both Google and Facebook are being brought up a lot by the senators.
reddit.com is the most visited site in the US not owned by either of those companies.
I wonder if reddit will ever be targeted to the same extent.
Comment by Mithren at 10/04/2018 at 21:41 UTC
97 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Interesting, so you do not collect individual user level data (for advertising or.. otherwise)? There I was assuming reddit spies on me at least as much as fb.
Comment by tripa at 10/04/2018 at 22:26 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
As a long-time user (discounting lurk time) who still hasn't had their email address automatically collected, thank you for that!
Comment by I_like_microwave at 10/04/2018 at 22:30 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Is that an official statement regarding “avoided collecting personal information”?
Comment by AnotherPSA at 10/04/2018 at 22:07 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You don't need personal info just a profile of a person to be able to track them.
Comment by MountainBeard3434 at 11/04/2018 at 03:00 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Like you will ACTUALLY tell us if you were lmao. Get outta here.
Comment by devavrata17 at 11/04/2018 at 04:48 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You (Huffman) today:
**We have avoided collecting personal information since the beginning**—sometimes to the detriment of our business—**and will continue to do so going forward.**
You (Huffman) 9-years ago:
? This isn't any change in policy: **we've always banned hate speech, and we always will.**
So how long until that personal info is collected and monetized? Years from now, what statements will you make to justify this betrayal of stated principles?
Comment by DryRing at 10/04/2018 at 22:24 UTC
-27 upvotes, 8 direct replies
1. When are you going to take responsibility for the fact that the #3 subreddit is a hate group that spreads Russian propaganda freely? (reddit.com/subreddits)
2. When are you going to take responsibility for helping hostile powers both foreign and domestic attack our democracy?
Our 2018 elections are under attack and we are defenseless. The president is refusing to allow our intelligence communities to protect us. 70% of the local news markets are now broadcasting Sinclair and along with the largest cable network, are filling our airwaves with actual fascist propaganda. We are approaching a moment in the next few weeks in which actual rule of law may be thrown out when the special prosecutor is fired.
Our country is falling to fascism in slow motion and Reddit is *helping it along* and *profiting from it*.
The #3 subreddit, which you give an audience of *hundreds of millions* to, at the *top of the subreddits list*, broadcasts actual Russian propaganda 24/7. I can't believe we've reached a day when their hate group activities have become less important, but they have.
Our democracy is in real danger, and you're going to take your CEO paycheck into your bunker and not give a shit.
You are *knowingly aiding and abetting* information warfare against the United States-- against me, personally, because I live here-- and you should be prosecuted for it.
Comment by weltallic at 10/04/2018 at 23:41 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Pride goeth.
I'm sure Zuckerburg had a hearty chuckle watching *Stonetear* testify.
Comment by Troggie42 at 11/04/2018 at 00:39 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Question RE: privacy stuff- if I delete a comment without editing it first, is it GONE gone, or can Reddit still see it in its databases? If it's still there, would a privacy minded individual be better off editing a comment before deleting it to obfuscate what was there? Would that even do anything? If someone wants to retroactively secure their account more through deletion, how could they do this and feel safe about it?
Comment by ICameHere2LaughAtYou at 11/04/2018 at 00:00 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Never say never! I'm sure you'll get your turn someday.
Comment by Hypocritical_Oath at 10/04/2018 at 21:41 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Snoopsno is also practically useless for high posting users too, a good thing and a bad thing. Good cause you guys don't let people get too much info about people, and bad cause I can't get an accurate word cloud for myself which I hope has fuck as the number one word.
Comment by thecodingdude at 10/04/2018 at 23:53 UTC*
9 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by kencole54321 at 11/04/2018 at 00:45 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I did notice that you now require an email to sign up for a new account. This seems like a pretty big policy shift and it was one thing I liked about this site because so few have that these days. What was the motivation for that change?
Comment by tomdarch at 10/04/2018 at 23:44 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I don't hate you (and I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in your position) but lots of us would love to see you grilled over the use of the site by Russian trolls and the decisions to not do as much as possible to stop it, plus use of the site to spread hate speech and promote hate politics.
That said, I would want the grilling to be done by much better questioners than most of the bozos in the Senate.
Comment by markrod420 at 13/04/2018 at 12:03 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
and yet you still enforce VICIOUS political bias on the site and like to pretend that it gives you some imagined moral high ground... think again.
Comment by rydan at 11/04/2018 at 07:06 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That's the one thing I have to give you credit for and why I'm here. You guys don't even require an email address.
Comment by State_ at 10/04/2018 at 22:52 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Then why are you guys trying to get me to verify my email.
Comment by itsaride at 11/04/2018 at 04:10 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Is reddit a neutral platform ? IS REDDIT A NEUTRAL PLATFORM?
Such a stupid question imo.
Comment by spezsmom at 11/04/2018 at 01:42 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I enjoyed listening to the testimony and seeing Mr. Zuckerman in a suit.
Comment by CandyRain_01 at 11/04/2018 at 02:22 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Then why did my Reddit app on my iPhone recognize when I was at "work"?
Comment by [deleted] at 10/04/2018 at 21:43 UTC*
-3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thats great and all but what about our metadata? Is reddit legally obligated to hand over our information at the request of the government? More so, does reddit share our data with advertisers?
Edit: fucking hive-mind man. This site is no better than FB in what they do with our data. In fact reddit is worse by comparison to FB because unlike FB, reddit can be used to build a more extensive psychological profile on you regardless of how much personal (name, d.o.b., political info and relationship status) information you provide