ghglkl
No user record in our sample, but ghglkl has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
No user record in our sample, but ghglkl has activity below (stories or comments). Likely we have partial data — the full bulk-load will fill profiles in.
> Reddit suspends accounts en mass, and when they do they nuke their entire history of comments on the site. That's not quite true, if an account is permanently suspended, the user page is unavailable for viewing, but…
Pushshift only blocked such data from being queried via their API. All these users' posts and comments are still in their data dumps, which now have tens of thousands of copies after being released as torrents.
Am I the only one here who thinks it is actually quite reasonable to restore such comments? It's equivalent to a librarian restoring some of their books that have been vandalised by a disgruntled author.