Do the advantages of deleting one’s entire Reddit history outweigh the disadvantages?

I have previously nuked my first Reddit account because it felt satisfactory to be completely detached from a platform one considers unethical/bad. Though, I have garnered quite some history on a second account—because Duty Calls*, of course—and I’m considering doing the same.

However, I don’t want to do it impulsively. I think I might be blind to some disadvantages. What do you think?

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  • Tangentism
    5·
    3 months ago

    Reddit admins have already put things in place to counter editing or deleting comments.

    I deleted an account from 2011 yet when I searched on Google for “site:reddit.com account name”, it listed loads of posts with their previous content (I used the script that changed all the contents before deleting).

    All SM sites have been doing this for a while: they’ll shadow delete your account but will retain all the data.

    • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      And if they really want to they could restore the comments/posts with randomly generated user names.