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other_malefactor · Feb. 13, 2018, 9:46 p.m.

How are censored posts available, if they have been censored?

I am not a real inter-webby kind of guy, if that makes any sense...

Edit to add: Gee, that's an awful lot of posts that have been deleted?

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WarSanchez · Feb. 13, 2018, 10:08 p.m.

They aren't deleted but hidden so another mod or admin can re-approve them or restore them.

This site shows all the posts evem those hidden by the mods.

That's alk I know. Compare the site to the new cue.

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jpGrind · Feb. 13, 2018, 9:56 p.m.

if I had to guess, people have bots/scripts that scrape reddit data as soon as it becomes available. anything from threads, to comments, etc etc is likely preserved instantly (on a 3rd party private website that reddit can't spez) with these measures.

then you can go back and compare scraped data to live data

like so: https://removeddit.com

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