Mildly Infuriating

Lol, a couple times I commented whenever this came up that it was probably pointless deleting like this with the random words and what not because reddit was likely doing some form of versioning or backups of at least the text based content. Especially since said content was/is under inflated executive value because "AI"

I got downvoted routinely because "ThAT WoULd Be Too ExPeNsiVe anD CoMpLiCatED, no WaY thEY dOiN tHaT"...if what you say is true with the true random words and everything, then I was right and they're doing exactly what I thought they'd do lol

Ohhhh wow, they did the same thing to me! What absolute scumbags.

Edit: I'm going to explore the use of Power Delete Suite once I get home. This is total bullshit.

If you live in the EU at least, I’m pretty sure much of this outright evil stuff Reddit is doing is illegal. If you want to delete your account and comments, they have to let you.

I find it very funny to think of how aggressively Reddit was banning people, particularly back in 2016. And how algorithmic they got in censoring and shadowbanning certain comments and accounts.

But now that real human interactions are more valuable than gold, they're trying to reverse it all again.

Thanks for bringing this up. I double-checked to make sure mine are still deleted.

Of course, nothing is truly deleted. I'm speculating they'll train AI with our deleted content anyway.

This may be a little bit offtopic, but is there any way to archive my comments/posts in an offline file with links to the original thread if I want to see them again before I delethe them?

im kinda scared to check. i dont want to see my shit undeleted

What happens if you create a fake community that only posts fake ai posts? Who is gonna ban you? It’s a genuine question

I edited and deleted my comments, and then got banned. I figure they're not going to resurrect potentially tainted comments for training AIs.

Instead of deleting everything, edit it to sometime else. Quick brown fox that shit.

Shit, this made me look at my okd account and sane thing happened. I wish I was in the EU, I could report them for ignoring my deletion request (I actually also asked for the user to be deleted)

Just tell them you live in the EU and you want to exercise your right to be forgotten, therefore you want them to delete all the data they have on you permanently. They'll comply, trust me.

Also you can first download all the data they have on you, as required by the GDPR, if you want to backup some of it.

does this happen to people that deleted their account as well?

I'm pretty sure they undeleted mine and my whole account

I know there are some databases of all Reddit comments prior to... maybe 2015? I forget. Would be cool to port them into an open source clone that isn't profiting off them, just for the times comments were really useful, like solving a tech issue only a couple people had ever documented.

This sounds illegal

This just happened to me as well. Deleted all my stuff about a year ago and even happened to check last week and it was still gone. Saw this and went back to check again just now, and it had all been undeleted.

Update: just realized it’s not everything, just everything more than 5 years old

My 15k deleted comments across multiple accounts are still gone. But I used my own Python script and it was about 6 months before the drama started and lots of people were doing it.