The hurdle isn’t in finding Power Delete Suite. It’s in knowing what a Bookmarklet is, or what a bookmark is, or what a favorites bar is.
Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.
> Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.
This describes my father getting to Google. It was painful to witness. I tried to explain for about ten seconds, then opted that what he was doing worked for him and chose to pick my battles.
It would be impossible for him to use a tool like a bookmarklet unless someone set it up on his behalf. The barrier to use such a tool as PDS is nothing to a bunch of people who understand tech topics. It's unrealistic for a lot of others. I was going to say that I thought young people who grew up online could figure it out, but I've seen comments about teaching mobile-first CS students about filesystems, so…
People can easily find tools for bulk editing/deleting Reddit comments. They can't easily use them.
Power Delete Suite is a bookmarklet. It's installed by clicking the link in the Github readme, going off to a CodePen, and clicking and dragging the resulting red button to the Favorites Tab.
Probably greater than 90% of Redditors who are interested in using it wouldn't know how and would give up. I'm guessing the number is actually closer to 100% than it is to 90%.
They don't have a mental model of what a bookmarklet is. They don't even have a mental model of what a URL or browser address bar is, much less dragging something to their favorites bar and going through two levels of redirects ("you got the latest version!"... "you need to be on your reddit profile page!") before they hit a page that lets them bulk delete comments.
It's relevant to the point that that post was replying to. "I couldnt find a better way to do it and neither will the average reddit user who has 1000s of comments."
The level of understanding (or level of willingness to figure out a more optimal way or even conceive that a more optimal way is available) of the typical computer user (which is probably not that far from the typical reddit user, because reddit is a mass-appeal site) is shockingly low. I've seen people with science PhDs open their browser to their default search engine page [Bing], type in Google, search for it, click on the resulting link, and then type their search query. Those people are not going to be finding the "easy delete script".
Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.