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I want to get to either rewrite all my old reddit comments or delete them (prefer to rewrite them all to an insulting message to reddit) before all third party apps are effectively removed on 01 July.

I vaguely remember there was a way to do this.

Does anybody know?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

See this before deleting https://youtu.be/mfZKkUg8jgM
Reddit is restoring deleted posts (and probably comments)

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Holy fucking shit. I just checked. All my deleted comments and posts are back.

I'm based in Germany and I'm pretty sure this is a GDPR violation.

Edit: Not all is back but some older comments are. I previously checked and my account was definitely empty before.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I second your sentiment. Yikes!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if the thread is locked/archived you might not be able to delete/edit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not it. The account was 100% empty and the stuff that's now back, I can delete again. That said - it might absolutely be some server caching issue on reddit's side. It's definitely fishy though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

they are 100% doing fishy things that are not right, the archive thing is kind of old news though.

edit instead of deleting, I don't think they can restore edits.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see a comment pinned under the video saying the comments reappearing are because of subs reopening. This sounds like a joke to me. My comments are back :(

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kept them. No need to leave scorched earth behind you. Some people not related to the Reddit fuck-ups might find them useful.

All I did was simply deleting my account. This hurts Reddit and not the uninvolved users coming from external links or web searches.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just deleting does not hurt Reddit. Reddit stays useful and continues to benefit from your contributions. Removing the content inconveniences those uninvolved users who now have to find information elsewhere and have no reason to linger on Reddit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't want to discomfort uninvolved people in my online activities. The relevance of my posts will decay over time and will be forgotten or seen as not relevant. That's fine.

On the other hand, Reddit has one less user to show advertisements to.

If everyone complaining would just delete their accounts Reddit would be in serious trouble. If everyone would delete their content then everyone would be sad.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use Shreddit.

Super simple to run, I left it going in the background as I got breakfast and everything was gone.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, try Power Delete Suite! You don't need to enter your reddit details to use it, you don't need to download or install anything. There is a YouTube video showing how to do it. Google it

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It really depends on how much computer knowledge you have, There was a chrome add-on I used, it just created some JavaScript you post in the console, there is a flood limit on deleting posts so it takes a few tries

[โ€“] innkeeper 1 points 1 year ago

Redact. I just edited all my comments and deleted posts with it. Works fine ...so far.

[โ€“] Candelestine 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would encourage you to do the rewrite manually. Don't do every comment, just some of them. This will enable you to edit them in such a way that the comment becomes horrible, but done in a sufficiently trolly way that it is not immediately apparent from skimming it.

If you do this over a period of time, they will not have any easy ways to undo it, by say, rolling your account back to some previous backup or something. They'll have to invest manpower energy to find exactly where to draw that line. Energy they do not have.

[โ€“] sirboozebum 2 points 1 year ago

I would do that but my account is like 10 years old and probably thousands of comments.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make a new bookmark, then put this as the link/url.

It's an updated powerdeletesuite by leeola.

javascript: (function() { window.bookmarkver = '1.4'; var isReddit = document.location.hostname.split('.').slice(-2).join('.') === 'reddit.com'; var isOverview = !! document.location.href.match(/\/overview\b/i); if (isReddit && isOverview) { var cachBustUrl = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leeola/PowerDeleteSuite/master/powerdeletesuite.js?' + (new Date().getDate()); fetch(cachBustUrl).then(function(response) { return response.text(); }).then(function(data) { var script = document.createElement('script'); script.id = 'pd-script'; script.innerHTML = data; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script); }).catch(function() { alert('Error retreiving PowerDeleteSuite from github'); }); } else if (confirm('This script can only be run from your own user profile on reddit. Would you like to go there now?')) { document.location = 'https://old.reddit.com/u/me/overview'; } else { alert('Please go to your reddit profile before running this script'); } })();

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hi, is this update to address the recent restored comments?

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