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Updated: Reddit is quietly restoring deleted AND overwritten posts and comments (mstdn.games)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Another update and possibly a solution for some case where posts were not properly deleted. Seems I jumped the gun on this and the restores haven't been intentional - at least not in this particular case.

There is a limitation in the popular Powerdelete that apparently prevents mass editing. Here is a link to a new version with a build-in delay and some other alternatives:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/145fico/comment/jnl4xmr/

There are other reported cases where manually deleted post reappeared or other scripts have been used, so this doesn't solve all issues but explains how posts that were both edited and deleted withPowerdelete weren't properly deleted and reappeared after subs went back live.

Update: As some have pointed out: the restores can be rollbacks from the server issues or post haven't been properly deleted due to subs being private during blackouts. Many have experienced the same issue, I can't explain how this happens. I'll just run the script again, try the GDPR request and delete my account.

Also worth noting: according to the ToS Reddit can actually do whatever they want with existing content, apparently we agreed to this when signing up.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

wait if the account is deleted can they still restore the comments?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In practice, it's hard to know exactly how Reddit structures the data they have and what exactly a delete actually does and what backups they have.

That being said, it's not out of the question that you could delete your post history, then your account, and reddit only restores your post history and not your account, leaving you unable to delete it again.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While there's some value in old threads, the real value is in new ones. Deleting old comments won't amount to much.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So... They've basically just admitted that deleting your posts is bad for Reddit.

Keep going, guys.

And spezi (as we lovingly refer to you in our household), expect lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's really shitty on Reddit's part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably better to replace your comments with some gibberish generated by chatgtp instead of deleting them. It will be much harder to figure out on mass scale if the edit was legit or not compared to them just looking for recently deleted comments or comments that mention something like “comment deleted by x tool”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@chri5 @Rairii jerk move. Can confirm a smattering of my edited and removed comments have been restored as well as removed submissions.

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