> Reddit shows all removed comments to authors as if they're publicly visible [8]
This is not true. There are cases where comments are silently removed without any public indicator; To the author, it appears as if the comment is posted normally. To other accounts however, there is no indication that the comment was ever posted.
There may be some wires crossed here. Reddit does show all removed comments to the people who wrote them as if they're not removed. I built Reveddit to reveal this. You can lookup a random user with this link [1]. There's a 50% chance they have a removed comment in their recent history, and chances are they weren't told that it was removed.
> To other accounts however, there is no indication that the comment was ever posted.
This is another important detail, so thank you for bringing it up. Removed leaf comments (comments with no children) do not show any marker at all. I mention it in my talk at 1:23 [2],
> Note that other users only see one marker here. They are not shown a marker for replies that have no children. So there is no indication to them that there was even a second comment here. The vast majority of removed comments fall into this category.
Anything removed automatically for containing a phrase or link from a subreddit's ban list has no chance of receiving a reply.
Thank you for pointing this out, I never realized just how many of my comments had been removed in this way! Pretty freaky considering how many of them were simply just citations / sources for things. I was honestly under the impression that my 10yo account never had a comment removed until now.
I use reveddit a lot on threads but never thought to use it on my own account. Thank you for making such a useful tool!
> I use reveddit a lot on threads but never thought to use it on my own account. Thank you for making such a useful tool!
No sweat. FYI there's also an extension for alerts, linked below. My main goal was to alert people to their own removed content. I'd love to know if there's a better way to route users in this direction. There's currently a little note in a blue box that appears if you've never visited a user page.
Thanks for your support! I think it's self evident that transparency is a better idea, at least the case of content moderation. The other way, full control via opacity, doesn't work out. You have to remove what you don't like, then remove comments that discuss what was removed, and so on.
This is not true. There are cases where comments are silently removed without any public indicator; To the author, it appears as if the comment is posted normally. To other accounts however, there is no indication that the comment was ever posted.