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I saw a lot of people saying they used bots to rewrite their entire post history to things like “fuck /u/spez”

I’m thinking that amount of comment editing might be quite the spike on the servers.

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I did that, but not “fuck u/spez” because that might get the comment deleted altogether making the edit meaningless. Instead I edited to say the comments been deleted in protest against the API changes.

If enough of us do it, entire comment chains will be illegible lol

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