A few days ago I deleted all of my posts and comments from reddit, but today they somehow reappeared.

I don’t know if that’s a bug or the admins themselves are restoring content, but I’m sure they’d have incentives to do so considering that they make money from your content, whether that is from generated clicks to the website or from selling those data to other companies to train AI models.

  • ImaginarySaffron@kbin.socialOP
    5·
    1 year ago

    Are you 100% sure? Have you verified (with e.g. a screenshot including the permalink in the URL bar) that the comment/post was deleted previous, and it’s showing up again?

    I definitely am. No hidden posts and comments, all deleted. I did it I think three days ago. Now I deleted everything again, let’s see what happens.

    • abff08f4813c@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      So you have fewer than 1000 posts and fewer than 1000 comments overall?

      Sorry if I seem pushy. I just want to help establish an accurate timeline of what reddit is doing and when, see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/65688/this-magazine-is-really-important-for-documentation-purposes-it-d-be

      Importantly, I don’t want reddit to be able to claim “oh, that’s just the 1000 indexing limit” if they really are doing this. So far no one has had the forsight to take a before-undeletion and after-undeletion picture, unfortunately.

      So the way it works is, if these posts are past the limit, they never show up in your profile. Not before and not after. If they are really being undeleted, the ones under the limit would have showed up in your profile before you deleted them. I’m not sure if they’d show up or not after undeletion, but if they do show back up in your profile then definitely they have been undeleted because posts and comments outside the limit can’t ever show back up there.

      One person reported something even more extreme - had an account, deleted, had a habit of mindlessly logging on so kept getting login failures. Then one day it worked - the account was completely and entirely undeleted and the old login worked again. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/55335/Reddit-keeps-undeleting-my-account-and-posts-Is-there-anything#entry-comment-239492

      • ImaginarySaffron@kbin.socialOP
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m not sure if I had more than 1000 comments, but I did manually delete everything that Power Delete Suite didn’t catch. My account was completely empty except for a few comments that I posted after.

        I think this needs more visibility though, maybe a sticky or something. If people delete their accounts after they think they’ve deleted everything, there’s no way to go back and delete the stuff that reappears. Maybe if you’re in the EU you can ask reddit to delete your old posts and comments but I’m not sure.

        • abff08f4813c@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          The word seems to be that reddit is claiming that they don’t have the ability to do this after your account is deleted. They need you to make the GDPR request for deletion first, and then only delete your account once all your content is deleted.

          I’m pretty sure that this is not GDPR compliant (they’d have to invest the effort - at their own expense - to find all the now unlinked content that used to be part of your account) but if you haven’t deleted your account yet, you might have less of an uphill battle in getting reddit to comply.

    • NotBadAndYou@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Instead of deleting the comments try editing them to some standard text, then go back and edit them all again to some slightly different boilerplate, etc. etc. I wonder if that might overwhelm their saved cache of your comments…