I’ve been on reddit spreading the good word of Lemmy and Kbin, and occasionally the text of one of my comments will be replaced with [Removed by Reddit]
Any idea what could be provoking this? It seems to happen way more often on the big subreddits. It seems automated to me, but sometimes deleting my comment and reposting a copy seems to bypass whatever is doing the deleting? But only sometimes. Idk.
Not sure about removing comments, but I had manually unsubscribed from each subreddit I had a sub to; I keep checking every few days and Reddit keeps adding back subscriptions 2-4 subs, so I manually remove those again, and sure enough - a few days later a couple others reappear
I had manually edited about 6 months of posts and comments to just point to join-lemmy.org and lemmy.world
I checked earlier today and they were all restored to before the edit.
I then deleted the account
7 years and almost 69k reddit points (karma) into the dumpster fire
Maybe we should all delete 10 or so comments every day. The idea is to overwhelm them with hordes of small deletions.
wait, do posts and comments not get deleted after you delete the account? I only did that
The comment text itself stays but the user says “deleted”. You need to use an external tool to delete the post content. Normally I wouldn’t nuke my comment history, but the API changes may make such tools stop working soon.
do you know what tool I could use? before I run out of time lol
Looks like people are recommending https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite. Also, don’t delete your account, you will need to continuously log in and re-delete posts that come back. Not sure if this is intentional on Reddit’s part or just unreliable servers being restored from intermittent backups.> FearTheCron
Wow! I’d heard that you can use shreddit.com to delete your comment history. I had ZERO knowledge that they can put it back. Holy @!$#!
I’d be careful with shreddit; there were some comments about them storing content they access/delete.
I used Power Delete Suite as it just runs JS to execute the delete calls from your browser without storing anything or pushing it to any external servers.
That is seriously strange. What’s the benefit to resubscribing you?
Reducing the count of inactive users, keeping subscriber counts at previous numbers, and back tracking the wave of accounts wiping out all their content