Reddit is actively restoring deleted comments and posts. Deleting your account won’t make any useful difference. Instead:
- Keep the account around but use some tool to delete all comments and posts everyday. I use Redact app on Android but there’re many others. Reddit would not be restoring comments and posts if they are not useful to them. By keeping your profile and keep deleting everything, you are denying Reddit any chance from making use of your data.
- Monitor when subreddit opens poll for re-opening and vote the “best” option.
My plan was to edit all my comments with a tagline like “this user has moved to kbin.social and will not respond to any DMs or replies as of 7/1/2023”. I didn’t post content at all but I have a lot of comments on discussions about some niche things and wanted to leave them there for future Google searchers.
i believe this is the best option, well said
Too late, already did it. Since I posted on a lot of reddit support subs, I’m not deleting my posts. Someone said the only real form of protest we have as users is to delete our accounts; I agree.
Deleting comments doesn’t do anything either, if you’re set on it, overwrite them with gibberish instead.
Automate it with Power Delete Suite (one of the forks that respects Reddit’s “5-second between edits” limit.)
I did four passes to ensure it was all REALLY overwritten since we don’t have visibility into their retention. So far my overwritten posts are staying ovewritten.
- So long, and thanks for all the fish!
I like the idea of selling it to a spammer though.
I’d be interested to see what a 13 yr old account with some nice karma is worth.
seems like this is only effect some people since I deleted my posts and comments like a week ago and nothing has been restored
Just checked and mine got restored too.
Did you use the power suite and use it multiple times?
Seems to be a bug and there’s some fork of it that somebody made to fix the issue
Yeah Power Delete Suite doesn’t respect the timeout limits for edit requests so it misses things sometimes.
I didn’t use the edit function though, since I’ve already read about it causing issues with the API limits. If there’s a fork that fixes it I’d like to have a link though.
Unfortunately the tools for mass editing and deletion will probably stop functioning on July 1.
They probably can be switched to scraping instead of api, will be slower but should be ok if you massdeleted everything already and just do like a daily/weekly cleanup of a few comments.
btw, no need for an app use https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite. Login to old.reddit.com and then use the bookmark
Honestly, I tried a few days ago. I researched it with all my tendies. I saw the PDSuite script on github with no step by step instructions and hit the limit of my competence. I then deleted my account. The github people are saints for posting such treasures, but they assume you know how to use a command line. I wish I had known there were other solutions. I have few regrets, however, because I spent almost all of my time as an unpaid data farmer on Noncredibledefense, so they have to sort through THAT to make money. They can’t use my comments to train an AI, because then it will be a based chad tank obsessed degenerate who watches nothing but Perun and Lazerpig.
Power Delete Suite is not a command line tool, you save it as a bookmark on your browser. There’s an image explaining what to do: visit the linked page and drag the big red button to your bookmarks
Eeh. I’m just going to keep deleting it instead.
For me it is the message more than anythin because otherise they’ll just whine ‘you’ll be back.’
Posts like this are just black pilling.
The post is saying that if you delete your account, you lose any control if they restore your posts/comments. There is no “keep deleting” your account, cause that’s not what they’re potentially restoring.
