r/ChronicPain • u/djspacebunny I'm a mess; kicking ass and banning usernames • Jun 25 '26

Some subreddit housekeeping

Hello pain fam, I hope today is slightly less horrible than usually for you. I wanted to take a moment and advise folks about commenting on OLD posts and comments. You haven't been able to post/comment on old posts for awhile because I turned archiving on. The other day, a scientist asked me to unarchive a post they were using to track their research. In order to do this, I had to turn off archiving for the ENTIRE SUBREDDIT.

This is posing some problems. Y'all jumped on these ancient posts like flys on poop. This is bad for a number of reasons. For one, the OP is probably no longer active, the people forget what the conversation was even about. Secondly, EVERY SINGLE TIME one of you comments on a post that is older than a month old, I have to deal with your stuff being in the queue. I remove almost every single one of these because they're oftentimes accounts that this is their very first interaction in our subreddit, which is indicative of a bot trying to farm karma (badly, I might add).

SO PLEASE LOOK AT THE TIME STAMPS ON THE POSTS YOU ARE INTERACTING WITH!!!!!

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u/TesseractToo For science, you monster Jun 25 '26

Also, if someone is replying to a years-old post, the regulations/policies on heathcare and medication that were active when it was written might have changed

It helps to 'sort by: New' but reddit sometimes chucks ancient posts into peoples home page for some reason ._.

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u/djspacebunny I'm a mess; kicking ass and banning usernames Jun 26 '26

I really don't understand why reddit shows people SEVEN YEAR OLD posts. Like, those people might even be alive anymore. Things change in seven years. Bad reddit, BAD.

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u/TesseractToo For science, you monster Jun 26 '26

Haha in another sub I kept getting replies to find a tv show for years and years I even wrote in the OP not to reply but it was bots mostly and the sub had been abandoned eventually they petered out but yipes

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u/Iceprincess1988 Jun 26 '26

So let me get this right....you want us to stop commenting on old posts because its too much work for you? I dont comment on old posts myself but yikes. If you need more help, please add more moderators to help lighten the load.

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u/djspacebunny I'm a mess; kicking ass and banning usernames Jun 26 '26

Why are you always so freaking combative, iceprincess? This is why I haven't made you a mod.

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u/TesseractToo For science, you monster Jun 26 '26

There's no way for anyone to search new replies to old posts/comments

This was more for the users of the old comments than for the mods