Ask HN: Looking for a Reddit Backup
Some important users I study got banned from reddit, with the side effect of no longer having access to their comments, because reddit practices the ancient Roman punishment of damnatio memorae, not unlike how the Japanese practiced crucifixion on Christian missionaries.
Therefore, if any wise guy has a URL to a reddit backup, preferably one that allows you to search the comments authored by a given user, that would be swell.
Isn't studying single users a bit obsessive?
There is a sub r/undelete, but I don't know its quality. There also are some "undelete"-sites, but I don't know if they still work after reddit restricted their API.
Blocking the contents of banned users, by far, is the rudest policy I ever saw an internet forum implement.