Reddit restored my posts and comments.
Reddit restored my posts and comments.
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Does anybody knows how do I get them permanently deleted or I'm powerless against it?
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that’s why I overwrote all ofmy comments with gibberish 10 times before I deleted them, so even if they un-deleted them and/or restored previous version, they’d have real trouble finding a version that wasn’t total gibberish. I just knew they’d pull this crap.
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Oh that's great 👍. What a great idea 💡. Everyone should be doing that!
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Maybe they delete our comments only to us but everyone still sees them? But yeah, if you re-did your comment like 10 times and another commentor redid theirs 5 times, how would they know what is the correct set? I can only think that maybe they go with the comments that survived the longest time. Or the first comment?
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Not too hard to defeat this solution though: put your comments through something like ChatGPT and if it can understand what you wrote, it’s probably good enough for em to restore it.
Maybe the answer is to write some nonsensical answer that’s understood by human readers as utter nonsense, but still recognized by LLMs as a “good comment”.
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it was randomly-generated letters and numbers. it would be impossible to divine what te original comment was. I then did this, over and over 10 times, so the edit history was overwritten with blocks of randomized text.
what you suggest would just spit out more garbage, or, at best, completely fake comments.
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Instead of bulk deleting you should bulk change your comments directing people to Lemmy.
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I deleted everything by hand and then left reddit. My account doesn't exist anymore so it seems like I can do shit about it. But your recommendation still holds, I wish I've done something like that.
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Even that didn't work for me. My old comments kept popping back up. I had to delete them mulitple times and then manually whackamole the ones that popped up to finally get rid of them.
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And they’re probably still there. I haven’t gone back and looked lately, but I did the delete whack a mole for about three weeks until my account was empty save for my up/down votes. It’s still empty.
But I looked up something a couple weeks ago and went to the Reddit link …and one of my comments was right there in the thread. There were others I could find via google, but not search on Reddit. They’re only there in context.
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Genius
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Yeah, that whole nonsense Spez the lemur boy was spewing about Reddit users being entitled to delete their own content was bullshit. I literally got suspended for a few days because a comment I regretted got put back up after I removed it myself.
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I noticed that too when I was bulk deleting. Since a couple of weeks ago I delete about 10-20 comments/ posts every other couple of days. Tedious yeah but none of them have resurfaced yet
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Reddit needs attention, that's why they became like TikTok. Reddit needs content, that's why they restored content.
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The spice must flow
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Damn this happened to me too. There has to be some legal recourse for this somehow
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GDPR or something?
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I mean yes but : I don’t live in the UK. A request to get rid of an individual’s data doesn’t mean anyone else’s is safe. It’s a game of whack a mole
Class action would maybe be the only viable way
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Are you sure you properly deleted them? Reddit rate limits you to about one edit/delete every 3 seconds. If you go faster than that the deletes fail.
All the comments I have overwritten stayed that way, it was just difficult to reach them all (as different comments show up under "Top", "Controversial", "New" and so on).
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I've been running an app that lists, edits then deletes all comments and posts every 2 hours for about a month. It does this within the rules of the API and confirms all is deleted each time.
It is still finding restored (pre edit) comments today.
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Yes I did. They were still deleted a few days after I erased my account. Now they are back.
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deleted by creator
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Thank you, I will delete them from imgur. I was more focused on my frustration with reddit than on a solution.
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deleted by creator
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Same, although I thought it was due to some subreddits being private when I deleted and later coming back public. Took like 10 times to go through my profile and remove everything.
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