cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893
I just logged in and checked my reddit account, and all my deleted posts have come back.
Translation: We can’t be bothered to put in the effort to bring it back for you if you want it back.
Simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
I doubt they are going around restoring comments as some personal fuck you to people who deleted them, chances are its either something to do with the deletion scripts struggling with private subs or the recent reddit instability has meant they restored some incremental backups or something.
I agree with you in principle, but a sibling comment to yours indicates messages deleted 7 years ago being restored.
I had purged an account of mine a few years ago. And I went to go look and comments and posts from 7 years ago were undeleted. that’s absolutely insane.
I wonder what’s going on. Are they trying to restore closed subreddits, some disgruntled employee doing something in protest and somebody else trying to fix it, new replacement mods not knowing what they’re doing. We’ll probably never find out I guess.
Interesting. I haven’t done any account-purging, but I know that at several points over the years I’ve made comments and then immediately realized that I’d duplicated something said further down the thread or had just plain made a mistake and removed the comment I’d made. I wonder if all those are silently popping back into existence now.
Strange. I deleted all my posts and comments and then my account a few days ago and they don’t seem to be restored. Could it be a difference of manual vs automated deleting?
I manually deleted a bunch of my posts over the last week and all of them have been restored.
I manually deleted mine, and about half were restored when I just took a look.
I’ve edited all my posts to read
“Comment Removed - leaving Reddit due to API changes”
Deleting the account leaves up the content. Doing it this way is a little time consuming but it’ll get the point across better
I used redact to do this and my edits were reverted and my comments un-deleted. Presuming that this was because I used a tool and it was easily identifiable as being done via API, I went back in and manually edited about 30% of my comments last night and noticed that they were all reverted again today. I’ve now manually gone in and edited all of my comments this morning and deleted them as of about 2 hours ago and they have not returned yet.
Are people from areas with GDPR type privacy act protected by law?
I’m not totally sure, because GDPR is mainly concerned with personal information.
Probably. According to the Definitions in Art 4 of the GDPR an online identifier is personal data, I can’t see why the right of erasure 17(1)(f) wouldn’t apply as reddit is an information society service
I downloaded Redact and scheduled a daily routine were it deletes my post, comments etc.
Does it use the API? If so, following the end of this month, it’ll stop working.
Oh good reminder to delete my posts before then
Yeah, but the problem is, they’ll simply restore them after the month is over and you won’t be able to do anything about it.
People gotta admit, as things are standing now, there’s jack shit we can do about it other than somehow get governments involved.
We are absolutely powerless against this as individual users, or even large groups of users unless we have a way of wielding the power of international law to work for us.
If they do that I’ll write a script that simulates button clicks to delete them all.
If you live in Europe or California (or if you pretend you do) you can submit a request to see how information you’ve submitted has been saved, used, or manipulated by reddit. My understanding is that the laws in those areas give residents a right to have their information scrubbed.
I wiped my account with with power delete suite yesterday. All of mine seem to be gone. But I didn’t delete my comments I just did pseudo random word generation and replaced them.what is weird is now I can’t even see any my comments when searching. Not even using Reddit search by auth:username.
Mine haven’t been restored. I deleted before the blackout though.
Mine too, at least from doing a spot check. I also deleted through the weekend prior to the blackout.
You guys seem to be correct about the timing of the deletion. I purged them before the blackout, on the day of the AMA in fact, and everything still seems to be gone.
Mine also got restored, but it might have been because i deleted my posts when the subreddits where private/restricted and didn’t check if it worked…
I deleted my posts and comments over the last week and confirmed they were removed. They were gone for a couple of days but they are back now. 🤷♀️
Same for me.
spez has poisoned the well. I edited all my comments to lorem ipsum using https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/issues
Just an FYI, j0be’s PowerDeleteSuite does not put reddit’s API rate limit into account. I’ve been using deestan’s fork that adds a 5 second wait per edit to get around this.
I overwrote my comments with gibberish and they have not been restored.
Germany takes the Bundesdatenschutzgesetzte very seriously. AFAIK you don’t even have to go to court. They screw over Reddit all by themselves. (Please correct me if I’m wrong)
