Donāt worry, they got to keep them anyways. There is zero reason to believe that comments and posts that were ādeletedā by their creator actually vanished from reddits database and didnāt just have a little āshow publicā set to āfalseā instead.
At least for EU residents, they are legally obliged to show what data they have on you and let you delete it. Should show well enough if they keep data for other non-EU people. At least if it turns out deleted content is still retained.
This only goes for personal data. The content you put on reddit is public.
Are you sure? Not saying you are wrong, Iāve just never heard about that or thought about it in those ways. Either way, in this scenarios itās not really public any more, is it?
This has been harped on before, but the last time we were allowed to view redditās source code, I believe it was determined that deleted comments still exist and are hidden as you suggest but edited comments are overwritten with their new contents.
This is why I used Redact to overwrite all of my comments and posts with nonsense rather than delete them.
Thatās why the move is to edit all of your comments into jumbled nonsense and then delete them.
They can restore them if they want. A guy here was a kind of big user in some tech support sub. He didnāt just deleteā¦he used one of those account scrubbers to edit over all his comments a few times before nuking his account. Went back to look a few weeks later and all his answers were back.
They donāt do this with everyone because most people arenāt important to making a sub look useful and attractive butā¦yeah. They have everything we all ever said stored.
There is zero reason to believe the edit function replaces the previous post text in the database instead of just updating the posts pointer to the new text. Or maybe it would be more optimized to save the old text somewhere new. Editing posts might piss off mods, but I wouldnāt be surprised if the admins donāt care.
