It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my first game I found dndnext where I could learn about the current edition. I spent hours and at least 1000 comments talking about playtests, new books, character concepts, rules, adventures and eventually the new onednd playtest.
If you aren't familiar with DnD you might be unfamiliar with their owner wizards of the coast (WoTC) which is part of Hasbro. WoTC has been awful this year, trying to rescind their open licence agreement which allows 3rd parties to operate. They broke their workers union with the Pinkertons and their are rumors their new edition will be digital only. I stopped even caring about the new playtests and completely disengaged with learning anything new.
So I was deleting comments on the old forum that provided me so much entertainment about the old game that I used to love. Both ruined in the same year but overwhelming greed. If that isn't the most millennial late stage capitalism experience I don't know what is.
Be aware that Reddit is repeatedly restoring deleted comments. I started editing posts to gibberish and then going back and deleting them about 6 weeks ago. Tonight some of those comments and posts had to be delete for the 4th time.
They are not restoring them, communities go public again making them appear in your profile. For some reason someone thought it was a good idea to hide them in your profile if the community is not accessible.
I deleted my comments for couple of weeks now, today there were only two left, looks like i'm about to finish.
I know that for sure because i export all my deleted comments and i can't find the reappeared ones in my backup, so i in fact haven't deleted them.
My experience is different. I've deleted the posts and comments from the same subs multiple times.
Same posts too? I don't know the backend and if the posts and comments get reindexed in the respective accounts, but i can imagine it happening like that
Same posts and comments. I've deleted both for multiple subs only to log in a couple of days later only to find them back again. It's happened multiple times. Other people have posted that same thing has happened to them, sometimes with much older posts and comments.
I wonder if mass edit replace would be better. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/146lloj/protip_if_you_replace_the_content_of_your/