Reddit is actively restoring deleted comments and posts. Deleting your account won’t make any useful difference. Instead:
- Keep the account around but use some tool to delete all comments and posts everyday. I use Redact app on Android but there’re many others. Reddit would not be restoring comments and posts if they are not useful to them. By keeping your profile and keep deleting everything, you are denying Reddit any chance from making use of your data.
- Monitor when subreddit opens poll for re-opening and vote the “best” option.
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Unfortunately the tools for mass editing and deletion will probably stop functioning on July 1.
At least the one i used, power delete suite, doesnt need API access, its a script run while youre logged in, they said if you can delete comments, it can delete comments.
GDPR/CCPA requests:
Add DPA in there too.
They probably can be switched to scraping instead of api, will be slower but should be ok if you massdeleted everything already and just do like a daily/weekly cleanup of a few comments.
It takes a bit of work but you can write a script to automate it through the browser using Selenium and the programming language of your choice.
My plan was to edit all my comments with a tagline like “this user has moved to kbin.social and will not respond to any DMs or replies as of 7/1/2023”. I didn’t post content at all but I have a lot of comments on discussions about some niche things and wanted to leave them there for future Google searchers.
i believe this is the best option, well said
Also, if you’re constantly mass-editing your posts, that’s server load and bandwidth.
My choice of edit: “Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore. Stop reverting my comments.”
I believe I am noticing that you cannot edit or even see your own comments on a sub that’s set to private, so you should expect some to pop back up as subs come back to being public again.
Too late, already did it. Since I posted on a lot of reddit support subs, I’m not deleting my posts. Someone said the only real form of protest we have as users is to delete our accounts; I agree.
problem is you gave them what is valuable. Your IP that they can sell to LLM/AI training.
Deleting comments doesn’t do anything either, if you’re set on it, overwrite them with gibberish instead.
Automate it with Power Delete Suite (one of the forks that respects Reddit’s “5-second between edits” limit.)
I did four passes to ensure it was all REALLY overwritten since we don’t have visibility into their retention. So far my overwritten posts are staying ovewritten.
- So long, and thanks for all the fish!
I like the idea of selling it to a spammer though.
I’d be interested to see what a 13 yr old account with some nice karma is worth.
Where might one go to do that…?
That’s kind of hilarious. 10 year old account with well over 100,000 karma suddenly starts spamming. Only banned from /r/conservative as far as I know. Maybe /r/pyongyang
I’m getting the feeling that the only delete command that’s going to really work is the kind that is on legal letterhead and sent via a process server…
I cant log in to the accounts I deleted…
Just a heads up, they’re not doing this to everyone, I deleted my account once and it has stayed deleted. YMMV.
You deleted your account yes, but they are rolling back comment deletions which is what this post is about. If you delete your account, you’ll no longer be able to get eyes on what Reddit has restored of yours and they can quietly restore your content without your knowledge.
It’s a game of cat and mouse currently in regards to protecting what you’ve previously submitted to reddit.
same here… I deleted mine the day before the blackout and it’s still gone
Eeh. I’m just going to keep deleting it instead.
For me it is the message more than anythin because otherise they’ll just whine ‘you’ll be back.’
Posts like this are just black pilling.
The post is saying that if you delete your account, you lose any control if they restore your posts/comments. There is no “keep deleting” your account, cause that’s not what they’re potentially restoring.
appreciate the clarification.
Also this is interesting given rossman posting how reddit protests are failing.
You can tell the protests are working by how insistent they try to get us to believe it isn’t.
I generally like the guy but some folks commenting on his videos about this situation are pretty wild, to put it mildly. Dear lord.
Everyone so eager to perpetuate the stereotype of ‘reddit mods as pear-shaped scraggly mall ninja types that have a death grip on Banhammer and are internet addicts.’
Basically everyone looking for a group to mock that nobody will tell them they can’t.
It’s a roundabout way to mock neurodivergent people. People can flat out mock autistic traits and then be like “god redditors are the worst” and other people will agree. Of course, it’s never about the people who say these things’s use of reddit or their friends’ use of reddit. It’s not just reddit that this applies to, either. Or even neurodivergency. It can also be used more generally to be racist, homophobic, transphobic…
seems like this is only effect some people since I deleted my posts and comments like a week ago and nothing has been restored
Just checked and mine got restored too.
Did you use the power suite and use it multiple times?
Seems to be a bug and there’s some fork of it that somebody made to fix the issue
Yeah Power Delete Suite doesn’t respect the timeout limits for edit requests so it misses things sometimes.
I didn’t use the edit function though, since I’ve already read about it causing issues with the API limits. If there’s a fork that fixes it I’d like to have a link though.
For me, the stuff I deleted is still gone, but it was only the most recent 1000 posts or something like that. On my profile, it looks like there’s nothing, but if I do a search, it’s bringing up older stuff.
@tvbusy bummer. I already nuked my accounts-after manually deleting every pic-when all this started, and I moved over here.
btw, no need for an app use https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite. Login to old.reddit.com and then use the bookmark
Honestly, I tried a few days ago. I researched it with all my tendies. I saw the PDSuite script on github with no step by step instructions and hit the limit of my competence. I then deleted my account. The github people are saints for posting such treasures, but they assume you know how to use a command line. I wish I had known there were other solutions. I have few regrets, however, because I spent almost all of my time as an unpaid data farmer on Noncredibledefense, so they have to sort through THAT to make money. They can’t use my comments to train an AI, because then it will be a based chad tank obsessed degenerate who watches nothing but Perun and Lazerpig.
Power Delete Suite is not a command line tool, you save it as a bookmark on your browser. There’s an image explaining what to do: visit the linked page and drag the big red button to your bookmarks
