How do you rewrite or delete all your old reddit comments?
I want to get to either rewrite all my old reddit comments or delete them (prefer to rewrite them all to an insulting message to reddit) before all third party apps are effectively removed on 01 July.
I see a comment pinned under the video saying the comments reappearing are because of subs reopening. This sounds like a joke to me. My comments are back :(
Just deleting does not hurt Reddit. Reddit stays useful and continues to benefit from your contributions. Removing the content inconveniences those uninvolved users who now have to find information elsewhere and have no reason to linger on Reddit.
I don't want to discomfort uninvolved people in my online activities. The relevance of my posts will decay over time and will be forgotten or seen as not relevant. That's fine.
On the other hand, Reddit has one less user to show advertisements to.
If everyone complaining would just delete their accounts Reddit would be in serious trouble. If everyone would delete their content then everyone would be sad.
Yes, try Power Delete Suite! You don't need to enter your reddit details to use it, you don't need to download or install anything. There is a YouTube video showing how to do it. Google it
I would encourage you to do the rewrite manually. Don't do every comment, just some of them. This will enable you to edit them in such a way that the comment becomes horrible, but done in a sufficiently trolly way that it is not immediately apparent from skimming it.
If you do this over a period of time, they will not have any easy ways to undo it, by say, rolling your account back to some previous backup or something. They'll have to invest manpower energy to find exactly where to draw that line. Energy they do not have.
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It really depends on how much computer knowledge you have, There was a chrome add-on I used, it just created some JavaScript you post in the console, there is a flood limit on deleting posts so it takes a few tries