Edit2:
Okay, finally I am confident that I got them all!
Got a torrent client set up, and went to
https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1
It turns out that you can just download individual subs. I know exactly which ones I first commented on, it was a small list and the subs themselves were pretty small too. So downloading just those subs from the torrent was pretty speedy and easy.
After that I came up with a quick script (based on the example scripts by the pushshift team's github) at https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps
I was able to modify the super useful script at https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration one last time to accept a list of comment ids in a text file, and then overwrite them all.
Looks like I won't be needing that GDPR archive after all, thanks for nuttin reddit!!
Hat-tip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684
Edit: confirmed with someone in the PSA thread that this doesn't work. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-200913
Original post below:
I'm having the same problem as the commenter here: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/41129/Just-started-the-process-of-editing-all-of-my-Reddit#entry-comment-180921
In my case I can see my comment history much further, but still about six months short of when I created my reddit account.
My post history seems go to back to my very first post, but I have a lot fewer of those.
For now I just edited my comments, but I'm wondering if I should also do a delete. If I delete say 400 of my newest comments, will I see 400 more older comments show up in my profile? And if so, how long will it take to refresh?
I'm willing to experiment and try and find out for myself, but was just curious if others had already experienced this.
(Of course, if it actually doesn't help - deleting new comments won't bring back the older history for me to backup and edit and delete - then I'd rather not delete anything at all and just leave my farewell message everywhere.)
I adapted this script to do what I needed, including printing out a count of comments found, as well as the permalink of each comment (so I could double check the date).
https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts
So I had 2 new comments from hot and 367 new comments from top.
Now reviewing the posts for the last 100 of these. Some posts will have a top comment from me (just 2 points!) and then I'll find more posts with just 1 point that got missed and have to manually clear those out.
Definitely this did not get everything. There must be some posts where I added only one or two comments and never got upvoted or downvoted, thus they wouldn't show up in any of the lists. And search engines aren't turning up all of these comments either (I found that only the search engine reported, but I'm finding a lot of my comments on these posts which only had one of mine upvoted or downvoted).
On the plus side, this meant that downvotes helped me find content I otherwise would have missed. Downvoting is helpful! Who knew?
Okay, finally I am confident that I got them all!
Got a torrent client set up, and went to
https://academictorrents.com/details/c398a571976c78d346c325bd75c47b82edf6124e/tech&filelist=1
It turns out that you can just download individual subs. I know exactly which ones I first commented on, it was a small list and the subs themselves were pretty small too. So downloading just those subs from the torrent was pretty speedy and easy.
After that I came up with a quick script (based on the example scripts by the pushshift team's github) at https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps
I was able to modify the super useful script at https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration one last time to accept a list of comment ids in a text file, and then overwrite them all.
Looks like I won't be needing that GDPR archive after all, thanks for nuttin reddit!!
Hat-tip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038684