I want to get to either rewrite all my old reddit comments or delete them (prefer to rewrite them all to an insulting message to reddit) before all third party apps are effectively removed on 01 July.
I vaguely remember there was a way to do this.
Does anybody know?
Holy fucking shit. I just checked. All my deleted comments and posts are back.
I’m based in Germany and I’m pretty sure this is a GDPR violation.
Edit: Not all is back but some older comments are. I previously checked and my account was definitely empty before.
I second your sentiment. Yikes!
Are they actually the same comments you deleted or older ones? Reddit only lets you browse the most recent 1000 or so comments.
Let’s say you have made 4000 comments on reddit. You go into your user profile, delete every single comment, and it shows empty. But you’ve only deleted the most recent 1000 or so. There are 3000 comments not showing up. After a while I believe reddit will refresh your user profile, and another set of 1000 or so will appear in your profile. These are some of the older comments you could not reach before.
Delete those, and you still have another 2000 left to go. Rinse and repeat…
In addition, your profile does not show comments that are in private subreddits. If the subreddit subsequently reopens, those comments will reappear in your profile.
if the thread is locked/archived you might not be able to delete/edit.
That’s not it. The account was 100% empty and the stuff that’s now back, I can delete again. That said - it might absolutely be some server caching issue on reddit’s side. It’s definitely fishy though.
they are 100% doing fishy things that are not right, the archive thing is kind of old news though.
edit instead of deleting, I don’t think they can restore edits.
I edited before deleting. All my original comments are back. Tomorrow I’ll try just editing alone, but I doubt they’ll stay put for too long.
curious to know how it works out, delete is the event trigger, if they reversed every edit the utility of the button would be 0 and it would make mods jobs even harder.
I think I figured it out. The stuff that’s „coming back“ is not in the Power Delete Suite backup. It’s just posts and comments in subs that were restricted that go back online.