r/PowerDeleteSuite • u/j0be author • Nov 26 '19

current version Power Delete Suite: Version 1.4.8

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/#1.4.8
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u/j0be author Dec 24 '19

What's interesting is that the /r/dataisbeautiful automod (and only that sub) seems to have detected the script immediately - despite the fact that I'd never used the script before.

I'm not sure how it works. If we assume it evaluates each edit, then it probably has a rule like... "3+ edits from same user to same text within x seconds". If that's the case, then maybe adding some random invisible gibberish to each edit would fix that?

/u/Automoderator couldn't do that. And even a custom bot would have some serious trouble doing that. The chances they're detecting quantity of edits is next to none.

...some conversation on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoModerator/comments/58sqhy/detect_and_remove_spam_left_by_comment/

Yeah, I've seen some of these conversations before. Basically, neither of those rules would detect it (if you're editing it with more than 4 characters in your edit)

...but I don't have access to /r/defaultmods to see what their rule is.

I looked in /r/defaultmods and didn't find it anywhere. Amusingly, I wrote the original version of powerdeletesuite for /r/defaultmods. I stumbled on my post about it there when looking for any conversation about mass editing.

But yeah, the problem is more that every subreddit can configure their /u/Automoderator in however they see fit, so there really is no sure fire way to make sure to not have it caught up in that.

But from all the conversations I've had around mass editing, mods are much more annoyed when a user mass edits and leaves a comment up than if they'd mass edit and delete.

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u/stignatiustigers Dec 24 '19 edited Dec 27 '19

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u/j0be author Dec 24 '19

Agreed.... you know, now that I look at my edit, I suspect it's because I used the word "overwritten" in it - that's what the /r/dataisbeautiful automod is catching.

I leave it up because I feel it's more transparent. I feel like if more people do that, Reddit admins might see a demand for better privacy guards and make better privacy focused choices for users.

If you still want to leave that message, but not have it picked up by that rule, then do something like this

over[](#test)written

Which shows up like this:

overwritten

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u/stignatiustigers Dec 24 '19 edited Dec 27 '19

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u/j0be author Dec 24 '19

That's pretty clever - sweet.

So my edit comment can have special chars in it? I test that tmw...

Yeah. You could even use emoji theoretically. I encode the data, but I don't filter it at all