One could just mass edit all their comments to contain some garbage with power delete suite. Of course they would have to hurry, as that relies on the reddit api for making the edits.
PowerDeleteSuite only gets the comments shown in your profile, which is limited to 1000 comments in each list: New, Top, Hot & Controversial. You need to do a data request which contains CSV files with links to all your comments, then you can feed that into something like shreddit, in order to get everything.
My accounts only had a couple of hundred posts each, so that didn't turn out to be an issue. I haven't yet deleted them, but the edited comments haven't been restored after a week or so.
That's good then. I've had comments popping up in the different lists over time. I either ran PDS again or just manually edited them.
I haven't seen anything restored from the GDPR files I used with shreddit, but then I've only grabbed a handful out of something like 76,000 comments over 12 years.
Okay? I don't know what PDS is... so I definitely don't run it. I have absolutely deleted more than 1000 items in one go. The app can run delete the first 1k then pull the next 1k automatically in the same singular button press. If you're app isn't doing it, then I would presume it's poorly coded. Here's a screenshot example of me deleting >2000 items in one go.
PDS is PowerDeleteSuite, which is the one most people seem to know about.
There are 4 lists on your profile, New, Top, Hot and Controversial. Each of these has a 1,000 comment limit, so while there may be some overlap you can access well over 1,000 comments from your profile.
For me, the easy ones to find that it missed were my replies underneath some of my older top comments. The top comment was deleted, but replies underneath with <50 karma remained. These were too old for New, not popular enough for Hot or Top and not Controversial, so they didn't appear in the lists.
Yes, because there will be older comments that aren't in your New list but are in the other lists. However, if you'd saved a link to one of your older Top comments, you'd probably find there are still replies of yours underneath with low but positive karma.
Same experience here with 2k+ comments processed, but I did use one of the forks that waits 5s between each edit/deletion to avoid getting rate-limited
Alternative to using a forked version is to use inbuilt browser dev tools to throttle the connection within a tab. In firefox eg: ctrl+shift+c -> network->throttling. That way it can't flood the server with requests.
That sounds useful, built-in stuff is nice, although I don't know for what else I could use it lol anyway I didn't know about that, so thanks!
In the early days after people started noticing that some comments weren't being edited/deleted I stumbled upon a comment, don't remember whether on here on on Reddit, that suggested using this fork.
I'm thinking, instead of mass deleting/mass editing, which would be easily detectable and reversed, manually editing high value comments like tech support or consumer advice.
You don't want to delete your account until you are absolutely certain that your content will remain permanently deleted, as it appears that they are restoring deleted content.
This... My worry is that they will revert my data AFTER the api calls. I'm not keen on deleting thousands of comments by hand. Remember that after the API changes all those tools will become unavailable.
A tool being a script doesn't mean it's not using API calls. Although I suppose an autoit script could be used to find delete buttons on a screen. Still a pain in the butt rather than just using the API calls.
i got my account banned and then i kept sending harassing messages via appeals. the last one was "i hope you have to suck dick for food when reddit goes public and the stock price drops" and next thing i know my permanent ban was removed.
i swear it happened as i said. I already got myself banned from every major subreddit on that account at that point, it had 138k comment karma but yea i talked shit sometimes. then i got banned from a bunch more after i edited all my comments to say fuck /u/spez. i plan to delete the account when the api shuts down today.
One downside is that you have no control over your content when banned and using new reddit. If you load your profile in new reddit, it shows nothing, regardless of whether you're logged in.
Right now you can go into old reddit and still edit/delete your comments. However it's likely that reddit will kill old reddit on 1 July, if not before long after. After that it will be very difficult for banned users to control their content.
that doesn't delete your content
One could just mass edit all their comments to contain some garbage with power delete suite. Of course they would have to hurry, as that relies on the reddit api for making the edits.
PowerDeleteSuite only gets the comments shown in your profile, which is limited to 1000 comments in each list: New, Top, Hot & Controversial. You need to do a data request which contains CSV files with links to all your comments, then you can feed that into something like shreddit, in order to get everything.
If one was to delete the top 1000 comments, then would the older ones be visible?
I had separate accounts for pretty much every community, so they didn't have too many comments.
No, the list will appear empty.
At least, until reddit restores some of the comments some time later. That's also been happening a few times over.
I wouldn't hurry to delete your account, so that you can supervise this.
Edit: if your accounts have fewer than 1000 comments each then you'd probably see everything on your profile page.
My accounts only had a couple of hundred posts each, so that didn't turn out to be an issue. I haven't yet deleted them, but the edited comments haven't been restored after a week or so.
That's good then. I've had comments popping up in the different lists over time. I either ran PDS again or just manually edited them.
I haven't seen anything restored from the GDPR files I used with shreddit, but then I've only grabbed a handful out of something like 76,000 comments over 12 years.
Consider selling them? 🤷♂️
I'd rather delete them than sell ad space.
Yes. For instance using a tool like Redact you can mass delete ALL requests as it simply pulls a new 1000 comments since it deleted the last 1000.
That's not what I've seen. You run PDS, it deletes each 1,000 comment list, then the list appears empty.
Okay? I don't know what PDS is... so I definitely don't run it. I have absolutely deleted more than 1000 items in one go. The app can run delete the first 1k then pull the next 1k automatically in the same singular button press. If you're app isn't doing it, then I would presume it's poorly coded. Here's a screenshot example of me deleting >2000 items in one go.
https://cloud.saik0.com/s/jcXewsLYQRSHXCT/download/Signal_VUIEMCUac4.png
PDS is PowerDeleteSuite, which is the one most people seem to know about.
There are 4 lists on your profile, New, Top, Hot and Controversial. Each of these has a 1,000 comment limit, so while there may be some overlap you can access well over 1,000 comments from your profile.
For me, the easy ones to find that it missed were my replies underneath some of my older top comments. The top comment was deleted, but replies underneath with <50 karma remained. These were too old for New, not popular enough for Hot or Top and not Controversial, so they didn't appear in the lists.
Yes, because there will be older comments that aren't in your New list but are in the other lists. However, if you'd saved a link to one of your older Top comments, you'd probably find there are still replies of yours underneath with low but positive karma.
Same experience here with 2k+ comments processed, but I did use one of the forks that waits 5s between each edit/deletion to avoid getting rate-limited
Alternative to using a forked version is to use inbuilt browser dev tools to throttle the connection within a tab. In firefox eg: ctrl+shift+c -> network->throttling. That way it can't flood the server with requests.
BTW: where did you find the fork?
That sounds useful, built-in stuff is nice, although I don't know for what else I could use it lol anyway I didn't know about that, so thanks!
In the early days after people started noticing that some comments weren't being edited/deleted I stumbled upon a comment, don't remember whether on here on on Reddit, that suggested using this fork.
Here's the link https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite
I'm thinking, instead of mass deleting/mass editing, which would be easily detectable and reversed, manually editing high value comments like tech support or consumer advice.
You don't want to delete your account until you are absolutely certain that your content will remain permanently deleted, as it appears that they are restoring deleted content.
This... My worry is that they will revert my data AFTER the api calls. I'm not keen on deleting thousands of comments by hand. Remember that after the API changes all those tools will become unavailable.
There are some tools that use a script instead of an api call
A tool being a script doesn't mean it's not using API calls. Although I suppose an autoit script could be used to find delete buttons on a screen. Still a pain in the butt rather than just using the API calls.
Clicking the delete button on the website just makes your browser send API calls (albeit maybe a different, private API than other scripts may use)
You can use this tool to edit all comments: https://codepen.io/pkolyvas/full/QWJbEOM
i got my account banned and then i kept sending harassing messages via appeals. the last one was "i hope you have to suck dick for food when reddit goes public and the stock price drops" and next thing i know my permanent ban was removed.
Looks like that was very appealing.
i swear it happened as i said. I already got myself banned from every major subreddit on that account at that point, it had 138k comment karma but yea i talked shit sometimes. then i got banned from a bunch more after i edited all my comments to say fuck /u/spez. i plan to delete the account when the api shuts down today.
can you elaborate ? not saying you're wrong, just want to understand what you mean.
One downside is that you have no control over your content when banned and using new reddit. If you load your profile in new reddit, it shows nothing, regardless of whether you're logged in.
Right now you can go into old reddit and still edit/delete your comments. However it's likely that reddit will kill old reddit on 1 July, if not before long after. After that it will be very difficult for banned users to control their content.
number go down and spez will be unhappy...
I'm curious why. What are the advantages of having an account banned over deleting or abandoning it?
Sounds silly and counter-productive.