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.
Same thing happening to me. I want to close my account but not while they continue to do this.
Would breaking a ton of rules and getting the account banned remove all the content?
I don’t think so, your comments should still be there, only the account appears as [deleted].
I think it can if you use power delete suite to edit all your comments but dont delete them. I’m hoping it trips up the detection and I would recommend people do the same
Yes, overwriting with gibberish is better than deleting, especially since reddit has backups and I’ve seen a few people saying their stuff was restored.
Apps unfortunately have limits in how many posts/comments they can fetch, but overwriting some is better than nothing I guess.
What if you edit them all?
I just tried doing that with power delete suite but I didnt have it remove the comments just edited them with this “I deleted my reddit account and all my comments and posts but reddit has decided to undelete my account and comments so I have decided to let people know. Fuck this stupid site”
I would recommend people do something similar as deleting your account and posts doesnt seem to help.
I deleted my comments and edited them but they keep coming back. I have notified the authorities in my country. No idea if anything will come of it though.
Did you use the fork of Power Delete Suite that waits 5 seconds between each edit? That seems to have worked to have my edits stay permanent.
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
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.