OC YSK if you overwrote your comments and posts that Reddit is restoring them to previous states

darcy, 11 months ago

How did you find out that this is happening?

Web_Rand, 11 months ago

I don't have to worry about that because I doubt erasing my Reddit content is necessary.

xtremeownage, 11 months ago

What we really need, is some more visibility to reddit pulling this shit.

RanchOnPancakes, 11 months ago

Time to pretend I'm from the EU and fuck up their world.

eee, 11 months ago

isn't it easier to sort by top comments, then manually input gibberish? that's harder to detect.

_MoveSwiftly, 11 months ago

Please add a "Why YSK:" following rule #2. Thank you!

roofuskit, 11 months ago

Done!

aragon, 11 months ago

Just goes to show how a GDPR like law should be enforced in all countries. If you can't edit or delete your own content, it certainly infringes on your rights.

roofuskit, 11 months ago

Here in the US we only pretend to have rights until conservative Supreme Court majorities say we never had them to begin with.

monsterhawthorne, 11 months ago

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.

kneelknee, 11 months ago

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.

monsterhawthorne, 11 months ago

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.

Piecemakers3Dprints, 11 months ago

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.

monsterhawthorne, 11 months ago

I get that in times such as these people become really eager to get mad about something. The less interesting reality, however, is that it's just previously hidden comments returning to profiles now that subs are coming out of being private. For example, I nuked my profile a couple days ago and as of today I have three pages of comments. Just about all of them are from a subreddit that switched back to being public yesterday. That's all it is.

Blowing it out of proportion and jumping to conclusions about what happened only serves to hand Reddit an easy win. They can disprove it, and at the same time discredit the protest movement.

Piecemakers3Dprints, 11 months ago

I completely get where you're coming from, and it seems like a good place, but you've gotta look at the bones of this argument you've got here. The simple, underlying facts of its construction. In this latest rebuttal, you get into lofty ideals and feelings, when your foundation remains off-base and planted in sand, friend. Let's not delve into the team of full-on logical fallacy. Please, reread the thread and grasp this.

Magzter, 11 months ago

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.

exixx, 11 months ago

Same. I’m still on the fence a little about deleting, it’s a fair amount of crap

roofuskit, 11 months ago

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.

Breakfulus_Emphotoga, 11 months ago

I love how far people are going to screw over reddit, they made their bed, and now they have to sleep in it

nieceandtows, 11 months ago

All my comments, which I overwrote using power delete suite are back to their original content. What the fuck

mac, 11 months ago

I just doubled checked my wiped account and all the content is still gone. I did this a few days before the blackouts, using Redact.dev

Jarmer, 11 months ago

Same here. So far all my stuff is still gone, including my entire account.

EsotericEmbryo, 11 months ago

This is why im considering being done with reddit altogether. The API stuff was messed up but this is SUPER shady

Alue42, 11 months ago

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

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/29476/An-FYI-about-comments-posts-reappearing-after-using-shreddit-or-other

kadu, 11 months ago

Removing mods I expected from the beginning...

But restoring deleted comments from users? That's bizarre. Let it be a lesson that content provided to social media networks will be monetized even after you delete it. We always knew that, but companies try to be a bit more candid about this, Reddit is being super public now.

SustainedChaos, 11 months ago

Deleted all of my comments and posts manually. Didn't delete my account, though, and I refuse to go back. It can flourish or die. I just don't care about reddit any longer.