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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence, but I raised a case with the ICO in the UK, and today they got back to me asking for all my communication with Reddit. Also today - after a month of silence - Reddit also emailed me with this

If you’re in the UK and had been affected by posts being restored, I’d recommend contacting the ICO. It takes less than 5 minutes

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yes, comments are being restored, but what they're saying is it's not something they're doing deliberately. The scripts people were running were basically failing and comments got restored automatically. That message literally encourages you to run them again or try different ones

[-] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago

That doesn't even make sense. How could a script failing to delete a post have this outcome?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Fwiw this is not necessarily a new problem. As a mod I’ve seen it before, if you go through hitting "remove" on a whole bunch of comments in a row often some of them will be visible again when you refresh the page. Something similar could be what’s happened here. Reddit’s backend has never been very good.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I can understand seeing them after a refresh, but visiting my user profile not logged in from Tor and showing everything deleted then having it all come back 2-3 weeks later is a little shady. I just checked my account again after my 3rd powerdeletesuite run since the shutdowns and I had one single comment restored (despite shredding before delete but maybe that failed)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's quite a bit more sus. If it's showing up as disappeared after a couple of minutes, it should stay removed.

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