Spammers and scammers rarely stand up to a cursory search using a Pushshift app. I have caught minors who tried to post in my NSFW sub because I recovered posts that had their *real* age. I also use these tools to verify the authenticity of an account. This is the most reliable way for me verify if I'm dealing with a karma farmer. It's cute that you can't show us "user-deleted content" for "lawyercat reasons," but when I have someone with 1,600+ karma post in my subreddit, and every single other post or comment that person has made has been deleted, I use those tools to see if they have posted in multiple R4Rs across the country on the same day. Our team remains committed to supporting our communities and our moderators, and we appreciate everything you do for your communities. If you need to reach out to us, our team is available to help. We are already reaching out to those we know develop tools or bots that are dependent on Pushshift. This is to help in the case that you ban a user due to rule-breaking content, the user deletes that content, and then appeals to their ban. Updating the ban flow to allow mods to provide additional “ban context” that may include the specific content that merited the user’s ban.This way, you can apply removal reasons to more content (including comments) as a historical record for your mod team, and you’ll have this context even if the content is later deleted. In other words, you’d be able to include a reason when removing content, but the notification of the removal will not be sent directly to the user whose content you’re removing. Enhancing “removal reasons” by untying them from user notifications.Please note that we cannot show you the user-deleted content for lawyercat reasons. Providing s to user- and admin-deleted content in User Mod Log for any given user in your community.Some improvements we are considering include: While we cannot provide the exact functionality that Pushshift offers because it would be out of compliance with our terms, privacy policy, and legal requirements, our team has been working diligently to understand your usage of Pushshift functionality to provide you with alternatives within our native tools in order to supplement your moderator workflow. We understand this will cause disruption to some mods, which we hoped to avoid. We are planning for as many possible outcomes as we can, however, there will be things we don’t know or don’t have control over, so we’ll be standing by if something does break unintentionally. We do not anticipate an immediate change in functionality, but you should expect to see some changes/degradation over time. While most have been responsive, Pushshift continues to be in violation of our terms and has not responded to our multiple outreach attempts.īecause of this, we have decided to revoke Pushshift’s Data API access beginning today. These updates help clarify how developers can safely and securely use Reddit’s tools and services, including our APIs and our new and improved Developer Platform.Īs we begin to enforce our terms, we have engaged in conversations with third parties accessing our Data API and violating our terms. On April 18 we announced that we updated our API Terms. If this impacts your community, our team is available to help. Because of this, we are turning off Pushshift’s access to Reddit’s Data API, starting today. TL DR: Pushshift is in violation of our Data API Terms and has been unresponsive despite multiple outreach attempts on multiple platforms, and has not addressed their violations. In the interest of keeping you informed of the ongoing API updates, we’re sharing an update on Pushshift.
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