Why YSK: Because you may delete your account and find your comments and other content is restored and beyond your control.
DO NOT DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT YET.
Keep overwriting your comments over and over so they cannot just roll them back a single edit.
I prefer Power Delete Suite as it does not need authorization and just uses the website through your own browser. I will continue to overwrite my comments on repeat until the API changes.
Time to pretend I’m from the EU and fuck up their world.
It seems like this could be another PR problem for Reddit if it becomes common knowledge that you effectively cannot edit or delete comments that you have posted. It would also seem to conflict with the European-style “right to be forgotten”.
I posted about this in m/redditmigration, but yours is gaining more traction. I posted a link to people talking about this issue in r/redditalternatives in case people want examples of this happening to other people
What we really need, is some more visibility to reddit pulling this shit.
I’m waiting on my GDPR first, as I’d like a backup of my data. But their support is dodging questions about it too. Have yet to give me a firm answer:
Power Delete Suite has a built-in backup feature. You can use it to save an offline copy of all your posts and comments before either deleting or editing.
This will only cover around 3000ish posts that are directly viewable from your profile. It will not cover absolutely everything like the GDPR request will.
I’m waiting until June 30 before I do this, I’m also finding it a bit difficult to delete 12 years worth of post history.
You can’t go back that far, but the scripts that delete data should be able to delete everything that can reasonably be found using your profile.
I’ve heard that if you tried to edit a comment in a community that had already gone private, that it could prevent you from editing it. Are you sure you were able to edit and delete the comments you’re seeing? Normally if you delete your account without editing/deleting, the comment stays up and it just changes the username to deleted. I used Power Delete Suite on Sunday and don’t see any of my comments have been restored, but most subreddits hadn’t gone dark yet on the 11th.
Nope, one of my restored comments is from a subreddit that never went black.
Been lurking but saw this thread and had to make an account to try and set the record straight, as there’s a lot of misinfo on this on Reddit, too.
If a subreddit turns to private and you are not a moderator or an approved submitter, all the comments and posts you have made in that subreddit will disappear from your profile. If you then delete all your comments, once the subreddit returns to being public again, those comments will then show up on your profile, because those comments couldn’t be deleted while the subreddit was private.
That’s all that’s happening. You nuked your profile within the past few days and there was nothing left. Problem was, half of the subs you comment on were private, so the nuking app or script was not able to delete them. Now that they’re all coming back, your profile shows a whole heap of comments again, but they’re not the same comments. The ones you deleted are still deleted.
Would that account for edited comments, as well? I see others are talking about comments that they edited (not deleted) being restored to a prior version.
Yes. It’s just people seeing comments from now public subs return to their profiles again and mistaking them for comments they thought they had already deleted/edited.
To be utterly clear, you went from logical conjecture to wild speculation and doubled down on the latter, despite evidence mounting to the contrary. It’s not only people mistaking Reddit’s overreach. The shady shit is obvious at this point.
