It’s about as dangerous as using IE in the old days, or Edge in administrator mode.

Is this “we don’t deserve X” a new internet fad? If so, I hate it.

Google already rolled out AMP which is overtly hostile to an open internet and faced zero repercussions from it. The same will be true for this. The average person has no idea what this means, doesn’t care, and won’t be bothered by it. Politicians always side with big business.

This is why Power Delete Suite edits the comment before deleting it. If Reddit is keeping a record of deleted posts and comments, then theoretically they’d only be left with a bunch of comments that say nothing. But I’m pretty sure that if they’re keeping deleted comments, then they’re also keeping edit histories.

I haven’t. I’ve only posted a couple of text based posts so far. I’m not much of a poster, more of a prolific commenter.

50% of the votes are downvotes, so I think a lot of people are having the same reaction, but not actually watching it.

I almost downvoted you for spam, but then I decided to actually watch the gif. So cute!