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Has reddit addressed the forced restoration of deleted comments in interviews? (lemmy.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by freeman@lemmy.pub to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
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I have been increasingly having to re-run my purge scripts across multiple accounts, despite not being on reddit for a few weeks now. The longer i wait between logging in and purging comments, the more appear.

And they do appear quasi-random, as if they page/comments get restored when another user pulls/visits an older page.

How does this even square with privacy regulations anyhow. If a user wants to delete their comments, forcibly restoring them against their will is, at best, unseemly.

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As far as I know, it didn't. And if it addresses it, I expect it to say something like "oopsie this is a bug / an accident / and oversight, trust us, we didn't it on purpose".

[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah. wouldnt be shocked. Interesting part is they used to say they only kept a history of 1 edit. So overwriting your comments then saving and deleting was a sure way to purge your history.

My scripts do just that with javascript. But still the whole comment is restored. No way thats a bug to me.

[–] AdamantiteAdventurer@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, places that have “right to be forgotten” laws should be monitoring and logging proof of examples over a period of time where deleted comments and posts are restored.

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