After the blackout I deleted all my posts and comments on reddit using the PowerDeleteSuite, and since then I’ve come back weekly to find comments existing on my account. I’ve been deleting them by hand now that the API is unusable. Does reddit pull these out of a backup? Do I just now see all of my comments? What’s the reason these comments keep showing up?
It’s quite clear that King Steven considers all posts the property of the Crown. Even if your deleted post is not recovered right away, if a backup is available it will be eventually.
If you live in the EU, you may have more traction with a GDPR complaint. It seems Europeans have some institutional memory on how to handle Royalty.
I do live in the EU. Does a GDPR complaint help? As far as I know this only applies to personal data, such as emails, names, addresses etc. not comments and posts.
From my experience, your posts on private subs are hidden so PowerDeleteSuite can’t delete them. When they open back up, those comments and submissions suddenly appear on your profile.
2 sources to this:
-You cannot see/edit/delete comments/posts that are in currently private communities.
-Reddit only caches ~100 items each in your profiles various lists (posts, comments, summary, and all their different sort options), so once those lists are empty it appears you have no content left but there’s still plenty that have just fallen off the end of those lists.
You can delete it… If you can find it. Reddit doesn’t give you the tools to find all of your own content.
I’ve replaced all my comments with lorem ipsum using PowerDeleteSuite fork and they haven’t reverted them - maybe that would work for you? Overwrote them too just in case
Initially I did use PowerDeleteSuite to replace my comments with a message, but they were reverted as well, ultimately I started to delete my comments in the hopes they wouldn’t show up again, but sadly they do. And now that the API is gone PowerDeleteSuite doesn’t work anymore.
Are you sure they were reverted. If you used the original Power Delete Suite it was not reacting to the current 5-second-per-edit limit. And so it would look like stuff being reverted.
Many of the forks implemented some sleep timing to ensure all comments stay edited.
I used a forked version and said goodbye like the dolphins.
Thousands of comments (and a couple of days later) edit on a 4-pass cycle to ensure Reddit hadn’t implemented some kind of revision depth - and they’re all still edited.
I used the fork with the delay but I recognized the same comment showing up again and again, so I am pretty sure at least some were reverted.
There is an app called redact, you can use it not just delete but also replace all your comments with fuck you u/spez . For your whole account , that’s what I did and it held.
Pretty sure that doesn’t work anymore now that the API is gone, right?
Just ran it now it’s a little slow but connects and goes just fine. Here’s a link if anyone needs it - https://redact.dev
Let me try it on my second account now and see. But I just did my porn Reddit account on Monday and worked.
There are many Grease Monkey scripts that will do a mass ‘replace then delete’ on your Reddit comments. Since Grease Monkey is a browser script engine, no API access is required.
Okay I’m not entirely sure you know what an API even is based on that last sentence, nevermind the privileged access a browser plugin apparently has. However riddle me this: How is a Grease Monkey Script going to find all my comments if the Reddit Website isn’t even showing all of them to me?
Of course I know what an API is. No need to be a dick when people are just trying to be helpful.
The browser script will only be able to delete what is drawn on the page, so you will need to wait for dark subs to come back online so your comments and posts can be displayed in your history. You will also need RES on that browser for the “endless” feature. I deleted almost twelve years worth of content this way but still go back every few days in order to catch stragglers as subs come back online.
No need to be a dick when people are just trying to be helpful.
Yeah I’m a little reluctant to take help from people who make my bullshit meter go to 180 in as little as 13 words.
The browser script will only be able to delete what is drawn on the page, so you will need to wait for dark subs to come back online
It’s not only the dark subs though. It’s mostly that Reddit is caching a reduced list of my comments and only shows me those, and it doesn’t give me a new list when I deleted all of them until like a day later.
I’ve seen a couple of my comments popping back up- from my understanding it’s just the ones that are in previously privated subreddits.
I’m glad I didn’t delete my entire account now, though.
I just had to do another sweep; most of my comments stayed edited but some from more popular subreddits (likely the ones that Reddit cares the most about profit wise) were uneditted. And most were un-deleted.
Ran PowerDeleteSuite and I’ll check in about a week.
