YSK if you overwrote your comments and posts that Reddit is restoring them to previous states
YSK if you overwrote your comments and posts that Reddit is restoring them to previous states
Why YSK: Because you may delete your account and find your comments and other content is restored and beyond your control.
DO NOT DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT YET.
Keep overwriting your comments over and over so they cannot just roll them back a single edit.
I prefer Power Delete Suite as it does not need authorization and just uses the website through your own browser. I will continue to overwrite my comments on repeat until the API changes.
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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