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…
The blackout must really be affecting them
Not the first time Spez has shadow-edited comments. What a douche.
Is it legal ? Don’t think so, at least in Europe with gpdr ?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Reddit getting fined by the EU would be hilarious
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.
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.
To be utterly clear, you went from logical conjecture to wild speculation and doubled down on the latter, despite evidence mounting to the contrary. It’s not only people mistaking Reddit’s overreach. The shady shit is obvious at this point.
I get that in times such as these people become really eager to get mad about something. The less interesting reality, however, is that it’s just previously hidden comments returning to profiles now that subs are coming out of being private. For example, I nuked my profile a couple days ago and as of today I have three pages of comments. Just about all of them are from a subreddit that switched back to being public yesterday. That’s all it is.
Blowing it out of proportion and jumping to conclusions about what happened only serves to hand Reddit an easy win. They can disprove it, and at the same time discredit the protest movement.
I completely get where you’re coming from, and it seems like a good place, but you’ve gotta look at the bones of this argument you’ve got here. The simple, underlying facts of its construction. In this latest rebuttal, you get into lofty ideals and feelings, when your foundation remains off-base and planted in sand, friend. Let’s not delve into the team of full-on logical fallacy. Please, reread the thread and grasp this.
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.
Time to pretend I’m from the EU and fuck up their world.
Please add a “Why YSK:” following rule #2. Thank you!
Done!
All my comments, which I overwrote using power delete suite are back to their original content. What the fuck
Using Redact on Android.
Re-deleted my comments.I just doubled checked my wiped account and all the content is still gone. I did this a few days before the blackouts, using Redact.dev
Same here. So far all my stuff is still gone, including my entire account.
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.
This is why im considering being done with reddit altogether. The API stuff was messed up but this is SUPER shady
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
Removing mods I expected from the beginning…
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.
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
What we really need, is some more visibility to reddit pulling this shit.
