this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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I can understand seeing them after a refresh, but visiting my user profile not logged in from Tor and showing everything deleted then having it all come back 2-3 weeks later is a little shady. I just checked my account again after my 3rd powerdeletesuite run since the shutdowns and I had one single comment restored (despite shredding before delete but maybe that failed)
Yeah that's quite a bit more sus. If it's showing up as disappeared after a couple of minutes, it should stay removed.
Shit database replication would also do it.
They probably never even tested for mass deletion events and probably still don’t.
While I am unsure if it’s malicious I would not be terrible surprised to find out it’s just a case of bad assumption in system design or bad code.