quirzle

Kinda comes with being on /m/redditmigration, no?

I just got confused by your “user error” suggestion, because I don’t see how this qualifies as one.

Because you're both claiming to understand the failing of reddit's UI and claiming the same UI as a reliable indicator of all comments getting deleted. Rather, it seems some comments were likely missed because of the shitty UI. Relying on reddit's UI for this is the specific user error to which I was referring. I hope that's clearer.

First, the Reddit API is broken, because the select query sent by the deletion tool receives less than a full set (as if there was an implied LIMIT clause on the server side). This leads the deletion tool to erroneously announce it has processed all comments.

I don't see anywhere that goes into what redact.dev does behind the scenes (closed source on something like this is a huge red flag to me, but more relevant here is that there's no indication whether it was using an app-specific api key or just using a hidden browser under the hood), though I do see where the reddit service page states:

Reddit stores posts in comments in a weird way. If you’re trying to delete thousands at once, we may not be able to find all of them.

You also mentioned that's how you confirmed all your comments were deleted. One could argue using a tool that admits it can't see all your comments to confirm whether your comments are all deleted could be considered an error as well.

There is literally no mechanism to find leftover comments...

Best approach I've seen that's still standing for a post-API reddit is using the GDPR request as input for one of the tools using it, so it's not relying on the janky UI.

This comment (which you've replied to, so ostensibly have already seen) does a good job of articulating how this only shows the top thousand comments at a time and doesn't update as you delete them.

Depending on which tool you deleted with, it may or may not have done a decent job of working around this reddit limitation to actually delete them all.

So it's not necessarily pretty straightforward, especially if you commented a lot.

Can you show this indication? Otherwise, this looks like a pretty clearcut case of user error.

I'm not familiar with redact.dev and can't comment on its accuracy, but your comments from earlier in this thread make it seem like you only found out about how the limitations of reddit's profile page work about 11 hours ago. They probably weren't deleted to begin with.

Is it possible the sub was private when you deleted the comments? This and known, since-fixed issues with PowerDeleteSuite explain nearly all of the "undeleted" comments I've looked into in-depth.

there isn't a place to just see the people I chose to follow

Given the direction of IG in recent years, this isn't very surprising.

And also the cargo ships I robbed.

I don’t want some validation, internet points, 2 minutes of fame to sound / look cool.

No, you just need everyone to know you don't care about sounding/looking cool to sound/look cool. Totally different.

On reddit only reddit knew who you voted for (so long as your preferences were set so that votes weren't public).

At the same time, the could sell or otherwise share that on a whim if they so choose. Given reddit's history of dishonesty, do you trust them to never do that? Do you trust them to be forthright if they did?

Curious. I'm reasonably sure the option should be either in the settings right where you took that screen shot or under the subscriptions section in the Google Play app store.

Any chance you've got multiple Google accounts?

What are users of old school forums called? Or myspace? Facebook? 4chan? I'm actually struggling to come up with a single similar forum or social media site that insisted on using a stupid cutesy nickname like reddit did; can you help me out here?