I might have to look more into my state’s right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I’d kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I’d purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is…disappointing.
you must edit first. automated deletes are rolled back.
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Does it work on permanently suspended accounts?
(The reason for was for “mod abuse” for reporting too much misinformation in a right-wing safe space subreddit, in case anybody was wondering.)
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Is it just me or is “permanently suspended” an oxymoron?
Yeah, it’s stupidly euphemistic. I’m not sure if that language is used just to distinguish it as a sitewide action by the admins (as opposed to a single-subreddit “ban” from that sub’s mods), or if there’s some more calculated/nefarious reason for it (maybe being “banned” from an account has legal implications that being “suspended” doesn’t?).
Commenting to find this easier later
There is a save feature on lemmy :)
Sadly not on kbin. kbin has many amazing features, but gosh, do I miss saving.
A true Chad use both
You can always boost a post/comment and see it later on your profile’s Boosts section.
That’s a fine idea, thank you!
If it isn’t too oldschool for you, there’s also always the choice to make a regular bookmark and give it the appropriate tags to easily find it again.
I use kbin both on the phone and on the pc, so having it all together is more comfortable.
If you’re allready making a GDPR request, why not use it to have them delete the account and all its contents?
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I commented a lot on tech support subreddits and I don’t want to delete my comments because other people searching for the same problem might find the solution there. I think it’s more important to help people than to spite Reddit. Why am I wrong?
You’re wrong because your comments don’t have to be on Reddit to help people. You could copy them (including the entire thread as context, if necessary) and repost them elsewhere instead.
I could also do that AND not delete them from Reddit, so really you didn’t present an alternative but a complement.
The only problem with that, and its not really a big problem yet, is that reddit is using your content to generate money for themselves in increasingly unethical methods. Previously you could see and interact with content without logging in from many different platforms. Now, on mobile, you can only interact with it on one platform (their own app that forces ads etc) and increasingly you need to be logged in to access it (so they can better track your movement and feed user specific ads). It is not unlikely that in the future they rework reddit premium to prevent people from seeing free content.
So the end result of your content could be that reddit uses it to take advantage of someone in their time of need by forcing them to pay for a month of reddit premium just to get help with their issues which you provided a solution to for free.
Now, that’s a stretch but only because I dont see how reddit can force a premium subscription on people without everyone rioting and burning the place down. But they seem to have killed all 3rd party apps which was also something I didnt think could possibly happen without bloodshed and it did easily.
With all that said, I didnt delete my comment history either because I personally feel that it’s better to help people than to hurt reddit. But at the current direction and speed reddit is heading I think it’s not out of the question that I would in the future change my mind and delete everything.
Because people who really need those comments can find them in a cache somewhere (such as The Wayback Machine), and while I am sure those comments are very helpful, they are probably not the only source for the information you provided. The difference deleting now makes is that Reddit can’t make more money from your work. People will still find the information, and, if they have to look further than Reddit, they might find you here.
Most of the people I help with basic tech support questions have never heard of the Wayback Machine, and odds are that people who ask themselves the same questions in the future won’t have heard of it either. I feel it’s petty to take back information from people who have trouble finding it kust to spite the big guy, especially since I already went to the trouble of putting it out there anyway. And it being available elsewhere, while a good thing, is not a guaranteed good thing. Forums and wikis can close or be vandalized or go through what’s happening to Reddit now or any number of other things.
Known issue for older accounts with more than 1,000 posts. You should be using the Google search site:Reddit.com username to return more content to delete.
You can also do a data request on Reddit which will deliver your data on spreadsheets.
I never had my deletions reversed. The only thing that did happen is when subreddits restored, I had to delete that content too.
I had 6 accounts. I now have zero.
Ugh, that’s extremely disappointing. I’ve got thousands of comments coming up on Google all the way back to 2009 that don’t show up on Reddit searches or my profile anymore. I wonder if there’s an automated way I can edit and then delete these.
There’s a premium service called Shreddit that will take your GDPR request files and delete them for you.
YSK though that your top results in Google are also likely to be the top traffic to Reddit. So deleting top down will remove those traffic sources to Reddit.
My top 5 results a month ago were also the posts that were driving questions via PM years later.
I didn’t pay to delete mine. I didn’t have as much as you guys to worry about. Maybe 400 or so. Every couple years I created new accounts. I lucked out because of it.
The way listings work on reddit is very confusing to most users. I used to think that listings refilled once you removed things from them, but they don’t. If you have more than 1000 posts, comments, or whatever, you won’t ever see the 1001st thing.
Meaning that posts aren’t actually removed, just set to deleted in the database. Also means that they don’t use that deleted flag in the database query, instead filtering out the deleted posts after they have been retrieved, which in my mind would be a less efficient way to do it.
Just get banned. All your stuff will be purged.
How to get banned? Promote violence against the capitalists. It’s guilt free!
