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Can't blame people for deleting their reddit comments to prevent them from scraping it all and profiting from it.
To me, it's about making reddit less usable and valuable to users, so they seek answers outside of reddit.
I can, this is cutting off your nose to spite your face. "I'd rather help nobody than help the public and parasites equally" is a very toxic mindset.
This is the internet, there are other noses. Why would you want to help a parasite when you could push the public toward a non-parasitic nose?
There aren't other noses for most things though, unfortunately. The narrow-interest forum of the late 90s is mostly extinct. Virtually all discussion boards condensed into reddit or Discord, and only one of those is actually searchable.
I don't want to help the parasite, but an alternative has to exist before you can push the public toward it. Burning everything down and telling everyone to build their own houses doesn't actually help anything.
This is a bit like the chicken and the egg though. "You have to keep your content on reddit because there's no strong alternative" just ensures there will never be an alternative. If you really want an alternative you can't keep supporting the beast.