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I deleted all my comments last year. Recently I got a notification for a response in one of such comments. When I clicked the notification link, my comment and the response were visible. The comment doesn't show up in my profile.
Reddit was aggressively rate limiting tools used to delete and edit content in a funny way when the API pricing was announced. The API wouldn’t return an error, the rate limiting was silent, and the tools would report successful deletion or edits even when the edit or deletion wasn’t made.
I had to modify an existing script to handle the 5-second rate limit and, lieu of deleting, I just rewrote each comment with a farewell.
Even then I did 3 passes (minor additional edits) in cases Reddit was saving previous edits.
My content has stayed edited.
Do you still have the Python script available?
I was fine with keeping my comments up before for the future searchers, but I'm not fine with that shithole making profit off of it.
I recently used shreddit with the --gdpr-export-dir flag and it worked perfectly.
DM’ed you the link.
Reason: personal GitHub account.
Interesting. I've specifically searched for some fairly unique content (Python scripts, etc) I posted in my time over there, and it hasn't shown up at all.
So you left your Reddit account intact?
Edit: Fucking. Cunts. I just searched (had been a few months) and at least some of my data is back. I reckon they've done it ahead of the planned AI move and IPO.
Edit 2: joke's on them - my posts were linked to an alt account I setup on Pastebin years ago. Still had the creds, so have deleted the pastes. Fuck Reddit. 🤘
I've had the same experience. Most scripts just erase the comments available directly through your reddit profile, which is limited to the most recent ~2000 posts that you've made. To fully erase anything and everything, you need to request all your data from reddit, download the .zip and feed it into an application like shreddit.