I have been increasingly having to re-run my purge scripts across multiple accounts, despite not being on reddit for a few weeks now. The longer i wait between logging in and purging comments, the more appear.

And they do appear quasi-random, as if they page/comments get restored when another user pulls/visits an older page.

How does this even square with privacy regulations anyhow. If a user wants to delete their comments, forcibly restoring them against their will is, at best, unseemly.

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    As far as I know, it didn’t. And if it addresses it, I expect it to say something like “oopsie this is a bug / an accident / and oversight, trust us, we didn’t it on purpose”.

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      Yeah. wouldnt be shocked. Interesting part is they used to say they only kept a history of 1 edit. So overwriting your comments then saving and deleting was a sure way to purge your history.

      My scripts do just that with javascript. But still the whole comment is restored. No way thats a bug to me.

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        Yeah, places that have “right to be forgotten” laws should be monitoring and logging proof of examples over a period of time where deleted comments and posts are restored.

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        What I’ve noticed is that subreddits that were private when I initially did it and are restored will then show up. I’ve had to go back each time a subreddit comes back. r/oddlyspecific just came back for example and now all my comments from that subreddit are showing up.

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        No term of service can force someone to abide one’s legal rights. And if they keep pushing this further, eventually moderator protests will be their least concern - I could see for example Reddit being fined or outright banned in the European Union due to violations of the GDPR.

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    I don’t think you can edit/view comments from privated communities, could it be that as subs are being forced back open those comments are now available to be edited.

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      Yes, that’s also happening. But many users have reported deleting or editing comments and finding those specific comments restored hours later.