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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] jestyr 125 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agreed. I deleted my 15 year account. Mods should just leave.

Reddit can’t exist without the free labor.

Other side is I don’t know what the mods that stick it out get. I’m guessing there is some monetary benefit to the bigger community mods I don’t know about.

[–] Krompus 38 points 2 years ago (7 children)

It's too late for you, but I'd suggest anybody who wants to delete their account consider first editing all of their comments to overwrite the data, there are lots of reports of deleted comments being restored, I've not heard of reverted edits though. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

A few weeks ago I used PDS to edit my comments - using the fork with the 5 second delay. Random pockets of older comments started reappearing after few days. I've been checking all 45 pages of my history every few days and editing the random comments that have reverted from the edited message. It seems like it has mostly stuck now.

I guessing there's probably some broken code/process somewhere that isn't always able to commit changes and once caches expire the comment returns.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I manually overwrote my post about 2 weeks ago and have been checking as subs came back online. a few reverted but most didnt. I deleted my 9 year old account last night and checked and its stills gone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Did this nearly a month ago. Just went back and checked and it has not been reverted. Hooray!

[–] XeroxCool 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I just tried Power Delete Suite about an hour ago. I beleive reddit has slowed down the allowable edit rate, something like one every 5 seconds. PDS runs through as fast as it can, meaning it's a 1 in 10 success at best. I tried Redact as well, but that just blanks out white after giving it permission. I'm not having much success. But Shreddit seems to work OK? Though that doesn't address the undeletion possobility

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

use the PDS fork with the 5 second delay. it'll take forever but it'll get the job done!

https://www.github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

PowerDeleteSuite screwed me over around 6 months ago. I got 2 replies to comments it was supposed to delete but they were still there, user name, content and all, they were just not linked to my account. If I search my username + reddit I still get results. My name is not attached anymore because I deleted my account.

Thankfully I started manually editing and deleting my comments after using PowerDeleteSuite, and those remain gone as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Been telling everyone to purge their old content. You can always view Reddit just to lurk, there's no need to let them monetize your old content. Into the bin it goes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I heard they revert to the original data? Didnyou check?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I was a mod, deleted my 14 year old account after having rewritten all my comments and posts