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I know there are other ways of accomplishing that, but this might be a convenient way of doing it. I’m wondering though if Reddit is still reverting these changes?

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      82·
      2 years ago

      Wouldn’t be hard to scan a user and say:

      • they existed for 5 years.
      • they made something like 5 comments a day. They edit 1 or 2 comments a month.
      • then randomly on March 7th 2024 they edited 100% of all comments across all subs.
      • use comment version March 6th 2024
        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Huh? Reddit has all of this plus changes in their own DBs. Google has nothing to do with this, it’s pre handover.

            • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
              21·
              2 years ago

              I’m saying reddit will not ship a trashed deliverable. Guaranteed.

              Reddit will have already preprocessed for this type of data damage. This is basic data engineering and trivial to do to find events in the data and understanding timeseries of events.

              Google will be receiving data that is uncorrupted, because they’ll get data properly versioned to before the damaging event.

              If a high edit event happens on March 7th, they’ll ship march 7th - 1d. Guaranteed.

              Edit to be clear: you’re ignoring/not accepting the practice of noting high volume of edits per user as an event, and using that timestamped event as a signal of data validity.

                • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
                  21·
                  2 years ago

                  I know it because I’ve worked in corporate data engineering and large data migrations and it would be abnormal to do anything else. there’s a full review of test data, a scope of work, an acceptance period, etc.

                  You think reddit doesn’t know about these utilities? You think Google doesn’t?

                  You need to chill out and acknowledge how an industry works. I’m sure you are convinced but your idea of things isn’t how the industry works.

                  I don’t need to explain to you that the sky is blue. And I shouldn’t need to explain to you that Google isn’t going to accept a damaged product, and that reddit can or can’t do some basic querying and timeseries manipulations.

                  Edit like you literally asked for a textbook.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        It sounds like what’s needed here is a version of this tool that makes the edits slowly, at random intervals, over a period of time. And perhaps has the ability to randomize the text in each edit so that they’re all unusable garbage, but different unusable garbage (like the suggestion of taking ChatGPT output at really high temp that someone else made). Maybe it also only edits something like 25% of your total comment pool, and perhaps makes unnoticeably minor edits (add a space, remove a comma) to a whole bunch of other comments. Basically masking the poison by hiding it in a lot of noise?

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Now you’re talkin .

          Intra comment edit threshold would be fun to explore

    • londos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Honestly, parsing through version history is actually something an LLM could handle. It might even make more sense of it than without. For example, if someone replies to a comment and then the parent is edited to say something different. No one will have to waste their time filtering anything.