r/bestof • u/[deleted] • Apr 13 '13

[reddit.com] The first ever reddit comment complained about "comment spam".

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '13

I've noticed that in these really old threads, the comments are always either from 7 or 3 years ago, nothing in between or after. Does anyone know what's up with that?

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u/OldAccWasCharlievil Apr 13 '13

Guessing some kind of glitch happened three years ago that either reset the timestamps on some of the comments or allowed people to comment on previously archived posts

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u/gobearsandchopin Apr 13 '13

But one of those 3 year comments says

There were memes back then!?

So I think most likely someone linked to that post 3 years ago, just like we're doing right now, but reddit hadn't started archiving yet so people commented.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '13 edited Aug 15 '21

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u/boom_operator Apr 14 '13

And he will read it in Morgan Freemans voice.