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.
I’m waiting on my GDPR first, as I’d like a backup of my data. But their support is dodging questions about it too. Have yet to give me a firm answer:
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.
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.
Here in the US we only pretend to have rights until conservative Supreme Court majorities say we never had them to begin with.
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”.
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
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.
Nope, one of my restored comments is from a subreddit that never went black.
Time to pretend I’m from the EU and fuck up their world.
I’m waiting until June 30 before I do this, I’m also finding it a bit difficult to delete 12 years worth of post history.
You can’t go back that far, but the scripts that delete data should be able to delete everything that can reasonably be found using your profile.
