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API limits, need to use a tool that waits 5s between each call otherwise it gets limited and doesn't actually edit/delete everything!
The second time I tried, I used a forked PDS that had a 5s timeout modification, edit only, no deletes. It edited my comments, but only up to two months. The rest don't even show on my own profile, but I still find 10 and 11 months old comments if I search online.
I used the 5s delay PDS fork and while it took several hours to overwrite thousands of comments, several days later they all show my protest message, even older ones.
That was my experience as well! I guess editing is no problem, while deleting is. I found a comment I made 2y ago via websearch and it indeed got edited correctly, while the oldest comment I can find via reddit is only 9 months old; which means that comment I made 2y ago has to be way over the 1000 comments limit (which happens at the 9 months mark for me) that reddit has, but the updated script manages to scrape and edit comments beyond the 1k limit; while other people are reporting issues with deletion
edit: after further research I came across some comments that didn't get edited by the script. No idea why, as their parent comment and one of the replies to it, also mine, did get edited. But further down the chain some survived
How do you find those unedited comments? Anyway, I ran it overnight and it said to have processed all 2k+ comments and I did check many pages (not all) including the last page which had almost 2y old comments, and all of them were edited. I had to make a second pass only because some subs were closed for the blackout and those comments couldn't be touched
Google searching. How do you see your oldest comments in your own profile? Mine just disappear after the 2 month mark or so. There is nothing. But if I look under saved posts for example, there are old comments still hanging there. I specified to edit everything- gilded, saved, everything
old.reddit allows you to go further back than that. IIRC there's a setting about how many links to show, that by default is 25 but you can also choose 100. After that, you go to your comments and manually go back and that should allow you to view much older comments.
So you just search "your username + reddit"? I'd like to check if any comments were left untouched!
Yes, username + reddit and if you remember a keyword from any old posts, that helps too.
I'm pretty sure I was looking through old.reddit, but being a 3rd party app user I'm not too familiar with the desktop interface. I'll check the settings and my comments again next, time, thank you!
I just did a websearch for my username + reddit. Found a comment I made just 10 days after I created the account, arpund 2 years ago, and it now shows the new text I instructed the script to edit all my comments with.
I can therefore higly recommend this fork of PowerDeleteSuite
https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite
As it seems no comments were left untouched! I checked old.reddit and it indeed stops much earlier (I think around 1000 comments like the other user said) which for me is just 9 months ago (so I may have not noticed this the first time and assumed the last page included the very first comments), but since I found a 2y old comment like I said above and it was edited correctly by the script, I can say it works lol