r/Piracy • u/dbzer0 • Mar 23 '19

PSA Scrubbin' the deck

I guess, I didn't need an inbox anyway...

Anyway, after more than a thousand votes I think it's pretty clear which way the community wants to move with more than a 10 to 1 ratio between 'Aye' to 'Nay'.

I'm going to lock the other thread as I don't expect a flip can possibly happen anymore and I'm going to investigate the best way to arrange a wipe of anything but the past 6 months of posts.

If anyone has already knowledge of a tool that can perform a task like this, please let me know so I don't waste my time.

EDIT: Scubbin' in progress. Thanks /u/Redbiertje. Given the speed, this might take weeks >_<

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u/___XJ___ Mar 24 '19

How confident are we that there are no posts from within the last six months that would also cause a violation?

This will only be a stop-gap if the bots/monitoring catch all new requests.

I agree with the approach, I just want to make sure this actually stops the bleeding and that we can confidently take action upon newly identified violations and resolve them.

We can't continue to be in this situation every X months.

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u/dbzer0 Mar 24 '19

Whatever the case, it significantly cuts down our risks from now on, especially since we weren't quite so vigilant until a few years ago

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u/Redbiertje Mar 24 '19

Hi u/dbzer0,

I've written multiple reddit bots, and while I've definitely never written something to nuke a subreddit, I can definitely give it a try if you want. Let me know if you're interested.

Cheers,

Red

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u/dbzer0 Mar 24 '19

What language do you you write in?

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u/InsideSoup Mar 24 '19

will there be a notice prior to the nuking or will it happen asap?

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u/dbzer0 Mar 24 '19

ASAP. Consider this your notice

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u/funkymustache Mar 24 '19

Can we just noindex this sub? Also, where are things backed up?

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u/Weetile Mar 23 '19

Mrs. Obama, it's been an honour.

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u/mypetpie Mar 24 '19

I hope this is able to prevent the sub from being banned. Even if not, I think this is certainly the best course of action for the sub to take in order to prevent a ban.

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