Wow... You aren't kidding. I wiped out a very old account I had from when I was far younger the other day. Logged into it just now and all my edits and deletions are back like it never happened...
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The blackout must really be affecting them
Not the first time Spez has shadow-edited comments. What a douche.
Is it legal ? Don't think so, at least in Europe with gpdr ?
I was thinking the exact same thing. Reddit getting fined by the EU would be hilarious
I had an interesting exchange of thoughts about this topic over on !reddit@lemmy.ml
Its unbelievable how that could not be working. U made an identity, even you delete your account they will just put back ur pseudo, ur comments but hey no IP visible that's fine ? Its fucking usurpation if I do an analogy with IRL life. I should not be surprise, there is law (and if its free u are the product ), but its just common sense.. Common sense should be real, and then law adapt/update then with society.
Shark society. Hate that. Really.
I'm fucking glad to have been shadow banned directly first day and never did an account after.
All my comments, which I overwrote using power delete suite are back to their original content. What the fuck
Just goes to show how a GDPR like law should be enforced in all countries. If you can't edit or delete your own content, it certainly infringes on your rights.
Here in the US we only pretend to have rights until conservative Supreme Court majorities say we never had them to begin with.
It seems like this could be another PR problem for Reddit if it becomes common knowledge that you effectively cannot edit or delete comments that you have posted. It would also seem to conflict with the European-style “right to be forgotten”.
It does seem like a terrible decision, I wasn't even going to delete my stuff because it's frankly useless, there's not much of it and I couldn't be bothered. But now I kind of want to just to put a stick in the spokes
I edited all of mine on Sunday before the protest and now several of the comments have been restored with no indication they were ever edited. That's so shady.
Been lurking but saw this thread and had to make an account to try and set the record straight, as there's a lot of misinfo on this on Reddit, too.
If a subreddit turns to private and you are not a moderator or an approved submitter, all the comments and posts you have made in that subreddit will disappear from your profile. If you then delete all your comments, once the subreddit returns to being public again, those comments will then show up on your profile, because those comments couldn't be deleted while the subreddit was private.
That's all that's happening. You nuked your profile within the past few days and there was nothing left. Problem was, half of the subs you comment on were private, so the nuking app or script was not able to delete them. Now that they're all coming back, your profile shows a whole heap of comments again, but they're not the same comments. The ones you deleted are still deleted.
Would that account for edited comments, as well? I see others are talking about comments that they edited (not deleted) being restored to a prior version.
Yes. It's just people seeing comments from now public subs return to their profiles again and mistaking them for comments they thought they had already deleted/edited.
To be utterly clear, you went from logical conjecture to wild speculation and doubled down on the latter, despite evidence mounting to the contrary. It's not only people mistaking Reddit's overreach. The shady shit is obvious at this point.
I get that in times such as these people become really eager to get mad about something. The less interesting reality, however, is that it's just previously hidden comments returning to profiles now that subs are coming out of being private. For example, I nuked my profile a couple days ago and as of today I have three pages of comments. Just about all of them are from a subreddit that switched back to being public yesterday. That's all it is.
Blowing it out of proportion and jumping to conclusions about what happened only serves to hand Reddit an easy win. They can disprove it, and at the same time discredit the protest movement.
I completely get where you're coming from, and it seems like a good place, but you've gotta look at the bones of this argument you've got here. The simple, underlying facts of its construction. In this latest rebuttal, you get into lofty ideals and feelings, when your foundation remains off-base and planted in sand, friend. Let's not delve into the team of full-on logical fallacy. Please, reread the thread and grasp this.
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This is why im considering being done with reddit altogether. The API stuff was messed up but this is SUPER shady
I'm waiting on my GDPR first, as I'd like a backup of my data. But their support is dodging questions about it too. Have yet to give me a firm answer:
Power Delete Suite has a built-in backup feature. You can use it to save an offline copy of all your posts and comments before either deleting or editing.
This will only cover around 3000ish posts that are directly viewable from your profile. It will not cover absolutely everything like the GDPR request will.
I posted about this in m/redditmigration, but yours is gaining more traction. I posted a link to people talking about this issue in r/redditalternatives in case people want examples of this happening to other people
Removing mods I expected from the beginning...
But restoring deleted comments from users? That's bizarre. Let it be a lesson that content provided to social media networks will be monetized even after you delete it. We always knew that, but companies try to be a bit more candid about this, Reddit is being super public now.
Time to pretend I'm from the EU and fuck up their world.
I just doubled checked my wiped account and all the content is still gone. I did this a few days before the blackouts, using Redact.dev
Same here. So far all my stuff is still gone, including my entire account.
Using Redact on Android.
Re-deleted my comments.
I've heard that if you tried to edit a comment in a community that had already gone private, that it could prevent you from editing it. Are you sure you were able to edit and delete the comments you're seeing? Normally if you delete your account without editing/deleting, the comment stays up and it just changes the username to deleted. I used Power Delete Suite on Sunday and don't see any of my comments have been restored, but most subreddits hadn't gone dark yet on the 11th.
Nope, one of my restored comments is from a subreddit that never went black.
If anything, it is probably a good idea to keep accounts open for the next few weeks and check on them periodically to see if the content restores on its own. If it does, you can then proceed to use the delete suite of your choice and run it again.
I suppose that once you are fully confident in deleting your account, you can do so. Alternatively, it might be better to keep the accounts open but delete all the content at this point.
I am 100% certain that my comments were reverted. And I am not the only one reporting restored comments. Multiple people have replied saying they are experiencing the same.
Looks like this may have been the case. My reverted comments were from a few subs that I'm pretty sure were private at the time I edited.
Re-editing the entire list, we'll see what happens.
Nope, one of my restored comments is from a subreddit that never went black.
I love how far people are going to screw over reddit, they made their bed, and now they have to sleep in it
I'm waiting until June 30 before I do this, I'm also finding it a bit difficult to delete 12 years worth of post history.
You can't go back that far, but the scripts that delete data should be able to delete everything that can reasonably be found using your profile.
Same. I’m still on the fence a little about deleting, it’s a fair amount of crap
Deleted all of my comments and posts manually. Didn't delete my account, though, and I refuse to go back. It can flourish or die. I just don't care about reddit any longer.
Many thanks for this tip. I had tried Shreddit before, Power Delete Suite is much more effective. Waiting to see now if my deleted comment history magically reappears...
Same here. Removed 1700 comments today. Waiting to see what happens there.
What we really need, is some more visibility to reddit pulling this shit.
How did you find out that this is happening?
isn't it easier to sort by top comments, then manually input gibberish? that's harder to detect.
I don't have to worry about that because I doubt erasing my Reddit content is necessary.
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