I doubt they are going around restoring comments as some personal fuck you to people who deleted them, chances are its either something to do with the deletion scripts struggling with private subs or the recent reddit instability has meant they restored some incremental backups or something.
I had purged an account of mine a few years ago. And I went to go look and comments and posts from 7 years ago were undeleted. that's absolutely insane.
Interesting. I haven't done any account-purging, but I know that at several points over the years I've made comments and then immediately realized that I'd duplicated something said further down the thread or had just plain made a mistake and removed the comment I'd made. I wonder if all those are silently popping back into existence now.
I wonder what's going on. Are they trying to restore closed subreddits, some disgruntled employee doing something in protest and somebody else trying to fix it, new replacement mods not knowing what they're doing. We'll probably never find out I guess.
Probably. According to the Definitions in Art 4 of the GDPR an online identifier is personal data, I can't see why the right of erasure 17(1)(f) wouldn't apply as reddit is an information society service
Strange. I deleted all my posts and comments and then my account a few days ago and they don't seem to be restored. Could it be a difference of manual vs automated deleting?
I used redact to do this and my edits were reverted and my comments un-deleted. Presuming that this was because I used a tool and it was easily identifiable as being done via API, I went back in and manually edited about 30% of my comments last night and noticed that they were all reverted again today. I've now manually gone in and edited all of my comments this morning and deleted them as of about 2 hours ago and they have not returned yet.
If you live in Europe or California (or if you pretend you do) you can submit a request to see how information you've submitted has been saved, used, or manipulated by reddit. My understanding is that the laws in those areas give residents a right to have their information scrubbed.
You guys seem to be correct about the timing of the deletion. I purged them before the blackout, on the day of the AMA in fact, and everything still seems to be gone.
I wiped my account with with power delete suite yesterday. All of mine seem to be gone. But I didn't delete my comments I just did pseudo random word generation and replaced them.what is weird is now I can't even see any my comments when searching. Not even using Reddit search by auth:username.
Germany takes the Bundesdatenschutzgesetzte very seriously. AFAIK you don’t even have to go to court. They screw over Reddit all by themselves. (Please correct me if I’m wrong)
Just an FYI, j0be's PowerDeleteSuite does not put reddit's API rate limit into account. I've been using deestan's fork that adds a 5 second wait per edit to get around this.