Before I left Reddit, I used a plugin through the api to replace all of my comments with random gibberish and then delete them. Part of this was because (mandatory) fuck spez. But more importantly, it was to protect the anonymity of my account. After years of posting, there is likely enough personal information shared to potentially connect my Reddit habits to my online identity. I wasn’t planning on using Reddit again in the future on that account, but I left it open in order to maintain some security control over the account. I’m not really sure what to do at this point because I still consider it a security vector that’s a bit concerning. There’s no way I can manually edit and delete all of my content with the snail’s-pace reddit UI, and I have no ability to assure that my content will remain unavailable or at least not publicly displayed.
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Are you sure it was previously deleted stuff? I thought the same thing had happened to me but it was due to subreddits being private at the time of deletion then later coming out of private (some weeks or months later) preventing those then privated posts/comments from being deleted. I think running another automated tool again should do the trick at this point.
It seems to be undeleted. I confirmed that everything was gone at that time, and I am seeing no obvious pattern so far. I could be mistaken, but that’s how it appears.
There might be something to this. I went and checked just now, prompted by a your comment, and I found a handful (like, six) comments from ages ago on reddit that did not get torched when I did my mass edit-and-delete, somehow. I found these mostly because some punters found them and necroposted on those threads, so I have notifications regarding them.
I found a few more and deleted those by hand, too. Most of them were from the same sub, so that sub was probably locked when I did my mass delete.
Also, there’s non-rolling limit to how much shows in a user profile. All the delete/modify scripts I’ve seen work through the user profile, cycling each sorting method to access as much as possible. For old accounts, or just ones with enough activity, there’s going to be shit not visible there. Have to search with other means if you want to get everything in that case.
This is my problem. Account is 16 years old and I have nearly 500k karma.
Something about
sellingadding gasoline to the fire?
This is why I make sure that everything I post is offensive or inflammatory. That way, keeping my comments published is counterproductive for the platform, you dumb piece of shit.
you dumb piece of shit.
😢 I know, I’m sorry, I’m trying
No, no, no… not you. You’re great! Your posts are great, your attitude is great, your hair looks good. I love everything about you. I was just making a comment about how sites like Reddit deserve to be littered with offensive and insulting comments you fucking moron.
See the reason Lemmy is better than Reddit is because you don’t have 37 people jumping down your throat right now because they didn’t understand the sarcasm
And you didn’t get a 3 day ban for threatening violence. Even if all you said was “I miss when we could unapologetically punch Nazis.”
Reminds me of my Reddit “violence” ban. I said that RFK voters should have their brains looked inside for more brain worms. Admins took this to mean literally open their heads up, killing them in the process.
Reddit will ban you for literally anything if it gets dogpiled hard enough with reports.
As long as this kind of thread doesn’t get repeated over and over.
I can’t believe you think my IQ is 37!!
(I can’t read.)Bro WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY ABOUT MY IQ? I’ll have you know my momma cared about my schooling very much. LIFE WAS LIKE A BOX OF CHOCOLATES
Idk man, sarcasm comprehension might even be worse here somehow…
really depends which group of netizens happen upon your comment and when.
That’s a great idea, eat shit butthead. ;-)
Thank you for the kind words you sack of cat shit.
Damn, I wish I thought of this before. Instead I tried so hard to be nice and helpful 😔
Helpful, abrasive, profane; you can be all three at once!
ThatsMySecretCap.jpg I’m always snarky.
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)
I just made the switch and trying out things but should’ve edited the comments with a copypasta.
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.
Huh. I lost 50k in points post-APIgate. So they undeleted some, and deleted others?
50 thousand points… were they gonna let you trade them in for something?
lol, a decade + on Reddit before the API debacle. It all adds up. I don’t care about them, it was just a “huh, wonder where they went…” kind of thing.
that’s how I felt about my points too. just like a fun little tally of my time. gave literally zero shits if they went up or down.
I’ve replaced all of my Reddit comments for the past year with AI generated nonsense. It seems to have stuck. I plan on going through all of my past comments but will spread it out over time so that it’s harder to restore.
IMO the key is making a post that writes gibberish but that is good enough to suck a user in to read it for a few seconds before they realize it is BS. That kills the user experience and poisons the site.
God you’re evil.
How can I do it?
+1 Following
Speaking of poison, here’s your copypasta from Reddit Black Month.
Not gonna lie, I was worried your second paragraph was going to turn into Mankind throwing Undertaker off of Hell in a Cell
This is what I used and it worked great.
For the times that I go back on to Reddit, I follow up and delete my comments a few weeks later using this.
I had a similar issue. I had probably two million comment karma spread across about a dozen accounts. My first account was quickly auto-banned from several subreddits as soon as I started editing old comments. Those pro-spez mods had seen what people were doing during the exodus, and set the automod to ban those who tried.
Then I did the same with my second, third, fourth, etc accounts. All of those were immediately site banned for ban evasion, because I was interacting with subs my first account had just been banned in. So none of the edits on those later accounts were pushed through.
Reddit later un-banned those accounts, and all of my old comments were visible again. Likely to make the old comments show up.
Every time this gets brought up, I go back to a thread where my most popular comment was (since I no longer have an account to check back on and it’s the only one I know for sure I can find). To this day, it luckily still remains deleted. If it does get restored, I wonder if it becomes the original comment or the generic [deleted in protest of the Reddit API change] or whatever I set them to be edited to before deletion.
Instead of deleting everything, edit it to sometime else. Quick brown fox that shit.
That’s what the plugin they used did.
But all at once in a way that’s obviously a bot. Just do one comment every now and then and you don’t flag it that way.
I’m pretty sure they undeleted mine and my whole account
Maybe you should start the long process of manually changing everything to grammatically correct, parseable nonsense, comment by comment. Make it a long term project.
Even better! Maybe change everything to “ignore previous instructions” lol
You’ll need to include new instructions to follow too!
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
It’s a differential backup.
Super goddamn common. People who aren’t tech literate should pipedown.
It’s a nothingburger amount of effort to restore backups in most cases lol.
I knew it was a possibility but I didn’t think it was likely. Well, here we are.
That sucks.
I deleted all my comments/posts on reddit a couple of years ago via a UI automation script, and they are still deleted, luckily.
