cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893
I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my manually deleted posts have come back.
Simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
I doubt they are going around restoring comments as some personal fuck you to people who deleted them, chances are its either something to do with the deletion scripts struggling with private subs or the recent reddit instability has meant they restored some incremental backups or something.
Are people from areas with GDPR type privacy act protected by law?
Strange. I deleted all my posts and comments and then my account a few days ago and they don’t seem to be restored. Could it be a difference of manual vs automated deleting?
I’ve edited all my posts to read
“Comment Removed - leaving Reddit due to API changes”
Deleting the account leaves up the content. Doing it this way is a little time consuming but it’ll get the point across better
I used redact to do this and my edits were reverted and my comments un-deleted. Presuming that this was because I used a tool and it was easily identifiable as being done via API, I went back in and manually edited about 30% of my comments last night and noticed that they were all reverted again today. I’ve now manually gone in and edited all of my comments this morning and deleted them as of about 2 hours ago and they have not returned yet.
I downloaded Redact and scheduled a daily routine were it deletes my post, comments etc.
Does it use the API? If so, following the end of this month, it’ll stop working.
Yeah, but the problem is, they’ll simply restore them after the month is over and you won’t be able to do anything about it.
People gotta admit, as things are standing now, there’s jack shit we can do about it other than somehow get governments involved.
We are absolutely powerless against this as individual users, or even large groups of users unless we have a way of wielding the power of international law to work for us.