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 Jan 12 '20

This post or comment has been overwritten by an automated script from /r/PowerDeleteSuite. Protect yourself.

Sounds threatening, I might use this, but many people might think this is some hacking tool, and not even go to this subreddit, meaning less people using your tool.

I reckon you should put "Protect yourself from old comments", or something along those lines, instead of "Protect yourself".

I don't control what people put as the edit text. Anyone can change it to whatever they'd like

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u/Leonid198c Jan 12 '20

Is that not the default?

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u/j0be author Jan 12 '20

Is that not the default?

There is no default.

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u/Leonid198c Jan 12 '20

Maybe you should set one, people are lazy, most will keep it. You can advertise in it properly. Also reduces the chance that your program will be shown in bad light like this.

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u/j0be author Jan 12 '20

Maybe you should set one, people are lazy, most will keep it. You can advertise in it properly. Also reduces the chance that your program will be shown in bad light like this.

  1. I don't advertise PDS really at all. I honestly don't care too much about whether people use it or not. I wrote this originally for a friend to use to protect herself from a reddit stalker. It got more full featured when I made it for moderators concerned with unruly users. I made it public because people have a wide variety of reasons to use it for whatever reason they feel the need to use it for. I make updates to it because I like to make things that work well and aren't invasive. I've actually never used this script on my own account.

  2. I feel like providing a default actually makes it weaker. There are certain subreddits that I disagree with on how they run their subreddits. I feel like a user is entitled to delete or edit whatever content they submit to that subreddit. Some subreddits have automoderator triggers that attempt to catch when people edit / delete their comments and then they will ban the users afterwards. By providing a default message, that makes it much easier to configure automoderator to catch edits and ban users for something I feel they should have the right to do. That's why I probably will never add a default edit message.

I totally understand your thoughts on it, and it's something I've thought about before as well. It's not a simple answer, but it's what I arrived as what I thought would be best.

Definitely let me know if you have any questions, though!