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As /u/MCRusher said, bringing it back for moderation purposes only misses a huge part of its value. I reference old comments regularly, and Pushshift-based tools were the only realistic way to search them without maintaining a full local archive. Its removal massively degrades the user experience on this site *even if* it's brought back in limited capacity for moderation purposes.
Setting aside moderation or archival utility in seeing deleted/removed comments, unless reddit provides a native way to search comments in the same way Pushshift enabled, restricting it to mod actions only massively degrades the utility of this site as a hub for writing that can be found for more than a few hours after posting.
Comment by Anonim97 at 06/06/2023 at 04:06 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Camas was godsend.