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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (17 children)

They are also restoring comments. I regularly wipe my comments and noticed I have comments from 1+ month ago re-appearing.

[–] manifex 57 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Mine are all back after wiping them. That’s fucked.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Just a reminder that things rarely actually get deleted in the software world. Instead a flag is flipped to is_deleted=true

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

This violates the CCPA at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This sounds like something they could get in trouble for. How do we get them in trouble for it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Summoning your GDPR rights if you live in the EU (right to deletion and right to forgetting IIRC).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

In order for them to get in trouble over that your comments need to contain personal information or hints to identify you.

I'm considering dropping some hints and minor personal information in comments, then requesting a GDPR wipe and if they're still there after thirty days sue then for GDPR violation.

If they'd need to delete all comments of leavers Reddit would be such an empty place.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yep, they've restored mine twice now. It's important to not delete your Reddit account because they aren't restoring those. If you want to nuke your comments, you have to keep your account open so you can keep deleting them. If nothing else, make them pay server fees for this bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I overwrote each comment with "Fuck u/spez" before deleting them using PowerDeleteSuite. That way, if they were to restore my comments, it'd be autoremoved right away on most subs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Afaik some people reported that it restored to their original comment instead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Were you overwriting them and saving, or just deleting?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People are seeing that get reverted too, according to several reports on Mastodon. It's reverting back to old versions of posts, comments, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Holy moley. That's quite the betrayal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Curse their sudden but inevitable betrayal!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm sure they are just restoring from backup, which is why editing isn't working anymore

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