I forgot Awards existed ( poptalk.scrubbles.tech )

I just got this email from Reddit, and I just realized it's been a year now since I swapped over here, and I haven't thought about awards once. I always thought they were gimmicky and a way for people to throw away money. It's just really nice not worrying about them.

(I also have participated more in BuyMeACoffee and Patreon over here now, and I think my money is better spent that way)

Also, what is with that exponential scale, so screw you if you're a big time user apparently? And the expiration? The whole thing has corpo stink on it

ptz ,
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Same. Both in getting the same email and not thinking about Reddit at all since then.

I guess I should finally get around to deleting my account. I kept it only because I was afraid my content would be restored if I deleted it during the protests (I edited all my stuff to [deleted] and it seems to have stayed that way).

tangentism ,

Do a "site:reddit.com your username" search & you'll find that all your comments are still there.

ptz ,
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Yep, they are. But they're not on Reddit, just what Google scraped and indexed. Clicking one of those results (to a post I've since deleted) throws an error page on Reddit. Clicking on a result to where I've commented still shows the edit I made on my way out:

https://dubvee.org/pictrs/image/347cc765-5357-46cb-a746-485e8ab948ae.webp

I'm under no illusion I've totally scrubbed my submissions from the internet; that was never the goal. I just didn't want Reddit to have them anymore, and best I can tell, that was successful.

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