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My reddit comments keep coming back (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de to c/snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
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After the blackout I deleted all my posts and comments on reddit using the PowerDeleteSuite, and since then I've come back weekly to find comments existing on my account. I've been deleting them by hand now that the API is unusable. Does reddit pull these out of a backup? Do I just now see all of my comments? What's the reason these comments keep showing up?

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's quite clear that King Steven considers all posts the property of the Crown. Even if your deleted post is not recovered right away, if a backup is available it will be eventually.

If you live in the EU, you may have more traction with a GDPR complaint. It seems Europeans have some institutional memory on how to handle Royalty.

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do live in the EU. Does a GDPR complaint help? As far as I know this only applies to personal data, such as emails, names, addresses etc. not comments and posts.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It applies to comments and posts to the extent that they are attributed to you, about you and/or their content is specific enough to render you identifiable. In practical terms, this means that a data controller can in most cases keep the content of your post by anonymising it, which is why when you delete your account it shows "[deleted]" in place of your user name above your old posts. If the content of the deleted posts, even in aggregate, allows me to find out who you are, then you would have grounds to insist that the content be deleted (or sufficiently anonymised).

Source: I was a DPO for 5 years.

[–] philoko@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

From my experience, your posts on private subs are hidden so PowerDeleteSuite can’t delete them. When they open back up, those comments and submissions suddenly appear on your profile.

[–] dontwakethetrees@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I just had to do another sweep; most of my comments stayed edited but some from more popular subreddits (likely the ones that Reddit cares the most about profit wise) were uneditted. And most were un-deleted.

Ran PowerDeleteSuite and I'll check in about a week.

[–] Kinga@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I've replaced all my comments with lorem ipsum using PowerDeleteSuite fork and they haven't reverted them - maybe that would work for you? Overwrote them too just in case

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen a couple of my comments popping back up- from my understanding it's just the ones that are in previously privated subreddits.

I'm glad I didn't delete my entire account now, though.