If they were, how would they hide it? /r/undelete would catch conspiracy posts being deleted and THAT would be immediately suspicious.
I'm still curious about how ceddit works because I swear I've seen posts that disappear and they don't show up on ceddit. Because /r/undelete needs to be watched most of all. /u/go1dfish, just how does ceddit work anyhow and why might it miss stuff?
Ceddit does a bunch of stuff. The frontpage of https://ceddit.com actually uses /r/undelete for the red highlighted posts.
/r/undelete and /r/longtail are also used for showing removed posts on sub reddit hot pages.
For /new pages and comments I use http://pushshift.io which crawls and archives all of reddit in pretty much near time (about the only thing it misses are automod removals)
The /new pages on ceddit are 100% comprehensive (well except in some EXTREME cases like https://ceddit.com/r/news/new because they get a ridiculous amount of spam sometimes it won't have removals for the full visible timeline)
Comment restoration on a thread when looking at the top level should be 100% comprehensive as well. Things will be missed though if pushshift is having problems (happens sometimes) or if reddit itself has issues that trip up pushshift or the app.
While I can understand wanting to respect the author's wish to delete, some posts are made maliciously and then deleted either to hide their tracks or erase the slate so they can try it again. If it were easy to determine which people want to be forgotten and which were gaming the system I would say sure, go ahead and respect those wishing to be forgotten.
My app is also fully within the terms of service of Reddit with regards to API use.
If I had it restore user edited content it no longer would be and I expect it would be more likely for reddit to shut it down as they have done with unreddit and others in the past.
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Mylon ago
If they were, how would they hide it? /r/undelete would catch conspiracy posts being deleted and THAT would be immediately suspicious.
I'm still curious about how ceddit works because I swear I've seen posts that disappear and they don't show up on ceddit. Because /r/undelete needs to be watched most of all. /u/go1dfish, just how does ceddit work anyhow and why might it miss stuff?
go1dfish ago
Ceddit does a bunch of stuff. The frontpage of https://ceddit.com actually uses /r/undelete for the red highlighted posts.
/r/undelete and /r/longtail are also used for showing removed posts on sub reddit hot pages.
For /new pages and comments I use http://pushshift.io which crawls and archives all of reddit in pretty much near time (about the only thing it misses are automod removals)
The /new pages on ceddit are 100% comprehensive (well except in some EXTREME cases like https://ceddit.com/r/news/new because they get a ridiculous amount of spam sometimes it won't have removals for the full visible timeline)
Comment restoration on a thread when looking at the top level should be 100% comprehensive as well. Things will be missed though if pushshift is having problems (happens sometimes) or if reddit itself has issues that trip up pushshift or the app.
For the newer anti-filtering of /r/all see this comment for more info: https://voat.co/v/TheDonald/1450581/7033751
All the source is open, but it's not what I would call particularly well organized at this point.
https://github.com/snew/snew/
Reading again looks like you want to monitor /r/undelete for malfeasance.
Since the /new removal restoration stuff is separate from the undelete bot, you can monitor https://ceddit.com/r/undelete/new for removals.
Mylon ago
What about self posts? ceddit will spot removed self posts, but the contents are lost.
go1dfish ago
In those cases the self post was detected by /r/undelete or direct linked but pushshift didn't get the contents of the post for whatever reason.
This shouldn't happen too often.
Or if a post was deleted by the author, in that case my app deliberately does not restore those.
Mylon ago
While I can understand wanting to respect the author's wish to delete, some posts are made maliciously and then deleted either to hide their tracks or erase the slate so they can try it again. If it were easy to determine which people want to be forgotten and which were gaming the system I would say sure, go ahead and respect those wishing to be forgotten.
go1dfish ago
My app is also fully within the terms of service of Reddit with regards to API use.
If I had it restore user edited content it no longer would be and I expect it would be more likely for reddit to shut it down as they have done with unreddit and others in the past.