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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 (8 children)

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

[–] [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.

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