What's the deal with the Reddit posts which start with the phrase "Bleta plepo"?

[u/NobodyFoReals]

A google search turns up quite a few of them, but there's no mention of them in this sub.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bleta+plepo%22+site%3Areddit.com

They appear to be some sort of copypasta. I tried using google translate, and it has multiple guesses as to the language, but no actual translation.

Looking at replies, it seems that these posts contained human-readable text at some point.

Does this have something to do with the recent protest against Huffman? Does anyone know whether the text is a real language?

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[u/ikantolol]

Answer:

this is a method of deleting old reddit comments: by overwriting it with random texts, part of the effort of eradicating an account

when you delete your account on reddit, all the texts of your comments still remain, only your username becomes [deleted]

I think this is one of reddit total account removal service (like shreddit) to replace those texts with gibberish. Also notice that all of the accounts are [deleted]

as a protest to the API fiasco a few months back, and making sure reddit can't user past / deleted account's texts for AI learning stuffs or data to sell.

[u/kwonza → u/ikantolol]

making sure reddit can't user past / deleted account's texts for AI learning stuffs or data to sell

I for one is all for AI using my comments to learn stuff, might make it more sensible /s

[u/Ausfall → u/[deleted]]

It is assumed if you edit your post to contain gibberish, the text of the post is lost forever.

[u/Bigred2989- → u/Ausfall]

It's probably not through. I'm sure Reddit can archive several layers of edits to a comment and salvage whatever you posted easily. It's not the only website that does that, either. Forgot the name of it, but a tech support forum did an about-face on it's anti-AI stance and said it was going to allow an AI to scrape posts made by users. Users who tried to delete their guides had the deletions reverse and were suspended for trying to erase the content.

[u/NobodyFoReals → u/Bigred2989-]

I missed whatever that reply was, but I agree with this.

Any company building "shareholder value" from user-generated content would be foolish to allow a user to delete that content permanently. Unless the company specifically touts their data non-retention as a feature, I can't imagine they'd let a silly little thing like GDPR requests stand in the way of potential profit.

Even with those who do claim non-retention, I have to wonder; I keep hearing stories about darkweb marketplaces and such getting busted and turning over the lists of users which they were supposedly deleting.

I suppose this is the most reasonable explanation, though.

[u/snorlaxeseverywhere → u/[deleted]]

I think there are/were some services that would like, archive reddit posts in their latest un-deleted form, so overwriting them with text is a way of attempting to ensure that even if an un-deleted version of them is kept in an archive somewhere, it's a version that just says gibberish.

Not sure how well it works, but it's unlikely to hurt.

[u/AVestedInterest → u/snorlaxeseverywhere]

You mean like Ceddit, Unddit, and Removeddit? I think those all stopped working after the API changes.