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The only thing I remembered about the post was a long-deleted conversation about it on another sub. I was sure I could find it through a few keywords, a username, and the sub's name, and trace the conversation back to the comment that had the link, which is exactly what I did, once I had the right tool for it. It would be fun to watch you attempt that with Google.
Ok give me the data you had to work with and I will walk you through how I did it with google.
Also, are all my posts being manually approved or something? There seems to be a huge delay in posting here.
It's not exactly it (not giving away my old hangouts, sorry), but it's analogous to remembering seeing the link in a comment on /r/JordanPeterson ,where /u/Yesofcoursenaturally used the phrase "the personal is political" (with the link not being in the comment itself, but in the same thread). While this is an analogy, the example is real. You can find a link to the post in question, with the data I just gave, using the proper tools.
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Yes, they are. Sorry; it’s not any fault of yours!
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I found the user in one second once I had his name, it was literally just his name and reddit into the google search box.
The post was also just the mods trying to get the sub they wanted. Isn't that what any mod wants? Hardly a CIA plot.
No you haven't. I'm not sure how I can make it any more clear than "the only thing I remembered about the post was a long-deleted conversation about it on another sub", but I'm not talking about the user that wrote the post, I'm talking about a few users talking about the post in on a completely different subreddit, who have since deleted a lot of their comments. If I knew the author of the post, I would have been able to find it immediately, and would have linked it in my original comment.
Like I said: "There was a reddit post on some sub for moderators that outlines how to increase censorship of wrongthink, while minimizing the chances of a user revolt resulting in them starting and migrating to an alternative sub".
Originally you were asking for a way to find it and saying you just needed a way to search for the username you remembered. You could apply this to the username that you did remember and trace from there as you said you did. Why are they different?
I said posts by username, and the only mistake was conflating posts with comments, it's a distinction that makes all the difference when relying on Google, but one that I think is understandable when you're doing to whole "weekly catch-all thread" thing for a long time.
Google is not very good at indexing comments, and the comment in question has since been deleted, so even if by any chance it would have been indexed by Google originally, and archived by archive.org so that it's still accessible, Google's cache would be long expired and the comment would be impossible to find this way.
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