YSK if you overwrote your comments and posts that Reddit is restoring them to previous states
Why YSK: Because you may delete your account and find your comments and other content is restored and beyond your control.
DO NOT DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT YET.
Keep overwriting your comments over and over so they cannot just roll them back a single edit.
I prefer Power Delete Suite as it does not need authorization and just uses the website through your own browser. I will continue to overwrite my comments on repeat until the API changes.
Wow... You aren't kidding. I wiped out a very old account I had from when I was far younger the other day. Logged into it just now and all my edits and deletions are back like it never happened...
Just goes to show how a GDPR like law should be enforced in all countries. If you can't edit or delete your own content, it certainly infringes on your rights.
Been lurking but saw this thread and had to make an account to try and set the record straight, as there's a lot of misinfo on this on Reddit, too.
If a subreddit turns to private and you are not a moderator or an approved submitter, all the comments and posts you have made in that subreddit will disappear from your profile. If you then delete all your comments, once the subreddit returns to being public again, those comments will then show up on your profile, because those comments couldn't be deleted while the subreddit was private.
That's all that's happening. You nuked your profile within the past few days and there was nothing left. Problem was, half of the subs you comment on were private, so the nuking app or script was not able to delete them. Now that they're all coming back, your profile shows a whole heap of comments again, but they're not the same comments. The ones you deleted are still deleted.
Would that account for edited comments, as well? I see others are talking about comments that they edited (not deleted) being restored to a prior version.
Yes. It's just people seeing comments from now public subs return to their profiles again and mistaking them for comments they thought they had already deleted/edited.
I edited all of mine on Sunday before the protest and now several of the comments have been restored with no indication they were ever edited. That's so shady.
It seems like this could be another PR problem for Reddit if it becomes common knowledge that you effectively cannot edit or delete comments that you have posted. It would also seem to conflict with the European-style “right to be forgotten”.
It does seem like a terrible decision, I wasn't even going to delete my stuff because it's frankly useless, there's not much of it and I couldn't be bothered. But now I kind of want to just to put a stick in the spokes
Power Delete Suite has a built-in backup feature. You can use it to save an offline copy of all your posts and comments before either deleting or editing.
This will only cover around 3000ish posts that are directly viewable from your profile. It will not cover absolutely everything like the GDPR request will.
I've heard that if you tried to edit a comment in a community that had already gone private, that it could prevent you from editing it. Are you sure you were able to edit and delete the comments you're seeing? Normally if you delete your account without editing/deleting, the comment stays up and it just changes the username to deleted. I used Power Delete Suite on Sunday and don't see any of my comments have been restored, but most subreddits hadn't gone dark yet on the 11th.
If anything, it is probably a good idea to keep accounts open for the next few weeks and check on them periodically to see if the content restores on its own. If it does, you can then proceed to use the delete suite of your choice and run it again.
I suppose that once you are fully confident in deleting your account, you can do so. Alternatively, it might be better to keep the accounts open but delete all the content at this point.
I am 100% certain that my comments were reverted. And I am not the only one reporting restored comments. Multiple people have replied saying they are experiencing the same.
I posted about this in m/redditmigration, but yours is gaining more traction. I posted a link to people talking about this issue in r/redditalternatives in case people want examples of this happening to other people
But restoring deleted comments from users? That's bizarre. Let it be a lesson that content provided to social media networks will be monetized even after you delete it. We always knew that, but companies try to be a bit more candid about this, Reddit is being super public now.
Many thanks for this tip. I had tried Shreddit before, Power Delete Suite is much more effective. Waiting to see now if my deleted comment history magically reappears...
Deleted all of my comments and posts manually. Didn't delete my account, though, and I refuse to go back. It can flourish or die. I just don't care about reddit any longer.