Any way to reliably delete/redact Reddit comments?
Any way to reliably delete/redact Reddit comments?
I used the Power Delete Suite fork by pkolyvas and it worked and my comments were redacted/deleted correctly for over a week.
Today I checked my account and sorted my comments by "Top" and to my surprise I see that many of my top rated comments have been forcibly brought back by Reddit. The curious thing is that it's only top comments on technical subs like r/MachineLearning that were restored, they must have realized that being in the Google search results for technical questions is critical for them.
Is it because they detect "bot activity" and they simply revert it? Has anyone had success with doing that manually or semi-manually?
Thanks!
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I found I had to run it multiple times. I also found that while it removed everything from my profile, a Google search of my user name & site:Reddit.com showed a lot of comments still there. 30 pages of search results in fact. There was not really any pattern as to which ones had been kept. Was quite cathartic going through them and over writing with gibberish a couple of times before deleting.
There was some discussion here about this issue. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/14dcxy4/reddit_restored_the_last_six_months_of_my/
For anyone who hasn't done it yet, better get on it as most of the useful deleting tools also use the API. I would also suggest the first few runs of power query you only edit the comments, not delete. That way you can get an idea of how many it got vs missed.
I had to rerun it a number of times as well, but eventually it got everything. It's a nice set it and forget it tool. I checked a day later and they were all gone. Will check again before the switch flips.