Remove your comment history on Reddit as deleting an account does not do so. - GitHub - x89/Shreddit: Remove your comment history on Reddit as deleting an account does not do so.
just to add that i have read that your comments won't be deleted/edited from blacked out subreddits, so maybe worthwhile to wait until the subreddits are back up (if they do come back!)
I found this out after I deleted my account which is a little whoops as I can't now log back in and finish the job haha.
i expect the period over the coming 2 weeks to be your opportunity to do this, some subs wont reopen but most will reopen for 2 weeks then close again on the 30th. if you want to keep anything, that will be your time to do it. the only other time may be shortly before reddit goes under entirely
Afaik when you delete the account the comments turn into the deleted username, so there's no real record anymore of who the comments belonged to. I know some people like to be thorough and delete every trace of their online persona.
I think I'll leave my comments up. There's nothing worse than googling something and finding it on reddit but half the comments are deleted. Even though I'm rooting for Lemmy, I know I'm still gonna be adding "reddit" to my google searches.
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While I understand the intent of not wanting them to profit from existing work, I feel like deleting content removes a resource for everyone. It would be interesting if there was a tool that would export comments and allow the authors to repopulate them elsewhere so they can still be searched and referenced.
In all seriousness though I probably won't be deleting my stuff either. Less than a month ago someone replied to a message of mine that was years old and they said they found it when googling. I don't want to ruin someone's day when they try to find something to answer their questions.
I've seen a few people suggest this, but wouldn't it be pretty useless without the context of the rest of the original post?
Like I could back up all of my comments and repost them here, but no one will know what they were in reply to unless I also backup and import the rest of the thread.
(I'm not against that, but I also don't know if there'd be legal issues?)
I'd rather just... Stop using my account. Make Reddit pay for the data I gave it till the day they decide to remove my account.
They're complaining about Reddit costing money. Dead accounts don't make much money - they can only sell the data so many times before it becomes completely irrelevant. So let's cost as much money for them as they can as punishment and just park our accounts instead of removing them.