This is the second time this has happened. I delete all my old posts and comments using PowerDeleteSuite. I view my profile - everything selected is gone. A few months later, it's all back. I repeat the process, verifying it's all gone. I log in today, months later, and it's back. Simply maddening.

Is there anything I can do to make it stick?

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[–] 64 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why some people have been modifying their comments entirely (and then deleting them).

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you live in the EU maybe requesting full deletion of your account helps.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This is only partially true - all comments include identifying information as they are always linked to a IP and username (both being personal information) and might be linked to a post history,etc.

    In theory they could absolutely scrub that information AND make sure that none of your post holds your (or other peoples) persknal information - but they would need to do so manually and by someone who is quite knowledgeable in these matters. So while it's possible it's not economical to do so.

    Currently Reddit usually does nothing and does not give a fuck, but that will fuck them over at some point - I know of multiple national data security ombudsmen who are currently investigating.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's not that it undeletes them, but that it keeps some of your comments unreachable. Every few months it re-indexes stuff and then with everything that was reachable before being deleted, it shows a different set of comments.

    You can see more comments if you access the list with different params. For example, after deleting all your comments sorted by top score, you can access them sorted by controversial and you'll see a whole other list of comments still there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yup. I remember reading something about this in another post a week or so ago. Reddit only lets you (or the bot doing the auto delete) see back through just about 1,000 comments or something along those lines.

    Everything before that still exists but just isn't accessible through your "Past Comments", you'd actually have to find the threads themselves or like you said, re-sort the list so it indexs a different set of comments.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've been manually deleting them, boring process for sure, but no restoring has been made.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    I did the same two years ago. All content still deleted.

    Wanted to make sure my deletions are not caught by some automated system so deleted posts and comments manually over the span of two weeks whenever I was waiting for something / had time.

    Edit: added that this was 2 years ago

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That stopped working ages ago. They have everything backed up in a data base. It's suspected they always had it so all those apps that would go and scramble you texts into nonsense didn't matter since they could just sell the backups to llm and whoever else.

    It's widely accepted anything you typed into that website is saved in its entirety and by version

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I'm assuming there's a way to edit all your comments to say "Fuck Reddit" before deleting them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    afaik I've seen something called Redact which goes down to every post then overwrites the content.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Have you tried another deletion tool to make sure it's not just a problem with the one you're using?

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