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If you're overwriting your comments on Reddit: (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you're using a script to do so, make sure it's handling API limits specifically for "edit" calls. I realized after I tried overwriting mine that it was quietly skipping a bunch of comments, presumably because there is (allegedly) a 1 edit call per 5 second rate limit. Since adding a 5 second delay between each re-write, it seems to be working for me.

I ran into this issue with u/j0be's Power Delete Suite, I ended up writing my own script to do the job.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I understand the protests but why are people deleting their comment history? Can't you just delete your account?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deleting your account doesn't impact all the content you generated, meaning Reddit can still profit off of it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This, and also it's far harder for them to revert if they decided too much of their content had been deleted by protesting users. Overwriting the content means it remains a persistent issue well into the future, rather than something they can easily ignore or undo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I see 👍 thanks for clarifying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Your code is buggy bro

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you just delete your account your comments are still there and it'll say [deleted] instead of your user name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not fully aware and up-to-date, but I've seen a few posts suggesting that Reddit is keeping your data on their servers, a few users have said some of their stuff got undeleted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, they keep the comment history forever. The idea is that as long as content is not publicly visible nobody will find it via Google and visit Reddit to be exposed to their ads.