This is pissing me off to no end. I went on reddit and signed in out of habbit as I have a couple times already and before my account was gone and it wouldnt let me sign in.
Now I did it again and realized that my account actually was undeleted and allowed me to login AND all the posts that I overwrited and deleted with Power Delete Suite where back. I am so pissed right now.
I think people may need to wait. Here’s what I’ve read and seen myself so far:
You can only edit/delete so many comments as it seems reddit only indexes the last 1000. After editing/deleting everything you can, you can see you still have unedited/undeleted comments by searching your username like: site:reddit.com "usernameHere". I saw plenty of comments going back years (I have a 14yr old account) that I wasn’t able to touch.
The strategy seems to be to be requesting your data from reddit and then use the comment ids contained in that export to target them for edits/deletes via the API, assuming it’s still usable for small scripts like the ones we want to use.
We’re tracking our requested/received dates in this thread if you’re interested in adding yours to the list.
The lack of indexing and privacy status of the subs likely contributes - but it’s also API rate limiting for many of the automated tools like Power Delete Suite.
It will appear that your comments are gone, but the limiter prevents activity from being permanently written over X calls per minute.
I’m using PRAW/python and app credentials I made just for me and PRAW seems to have some good rate limit logic built in.
I also tried Power Delete Suite which seemed to work very quickly and that caused me to worry that I was running afoul of rate limits. My own python script utilizing PRAW works much more slowly but IMO that’s a good thing.
I’m hoping that once I have a nice list of comment ids I can hit them all via my script/PRAW, however long it takes.
j0be, the dev for PDS, was informed about the rate limit issue ~2 years ago. I think they recently updated the script to open the discussion page on reddit about it, but there is no limit logic currently.
My personal experience is that using PDS requires multiple attempts - however, the tool is working until it surpasses the call limit.
I just want to point out that if you use one of those comment deleter apps (powersuite, shreddit etc) they cannot delete comments from private subs as they are hidden. So if you tried deleting your stuff while subs are marked private those comments will not be deleted and will reappear on your profile once the sub(s) go back to normal mode. (at the time I’m writing this, there’s still 3600 subs currently dark according to https://reddark.untone.uk/ so if you commented in any one of them marked private you’ll have to wait for them to come back to public mode to erase them.)
Also, when they do come back they won’t always show up normally in your profile. I’ve had to flip between hot/new/controversial a few times to see them all as they pop back up.
I want to point out that while this may be true, I edited, then deleted mine before the subs started going private and when I checked with google, my comments and posts were showing [deleted] when I googled on them and clicked on them until yesterday. Now they are back. Reddit is restoring deleted comments and posts.
I wonder if these undeletions are just the Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) taking time to sync up?
So you login to one Reddit instance and delete/modify all your posts. This will take time to trickle down to all the other servers in the network. When you next login you are logging into a different reddit instance that has not yet synced up all the changes you made.
For example where I am there are four reddit servers when I check the DNS for reddit.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
reddit.com. 92 IN A 151.101.129.140
reddit.com. 92 IN A 151.101.1.140
reddit.com. 92 IN A 151.101.65.140
reddit.com. 92 IN A 151.101.193.140
Just a theory that might explain what people are seeing. That said with the behaviour of reddit admins over the last few weeks I wouldn’t put it past them to be undeleting though.
You can only delete you top 1000 posts, best 1000 post and newest 1000 posts, the rest remain
If the sub was dark when you ran the scripts they will reappear if the sub reopens
Then there is the sync issues other mention
wow, kinda makes me glad I deleted mine the day before all this started 😳
I’ve been wondering if Reddit has been fucking with stuff just since the API stuff started. This is a data point indicating yes.
I have a feeling they’re going to undelete any activity within the past or next few weeks. I personally am leaving Reddit alone for now. In another two or three weeks (months?), I plan to go in and delete all my old posts slowly over time (or replace with some statement about moving to kbin social).
I’ll likely write a manual automated script to parse through and overwrite over a decade’s worth of comments/postings to ensure it’s erased/gone.
But for now I’ve blocked the reddit domains from my router so I don’t accidentally visit the site and ensure they see zero traffic from my IP address