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What's the benefit of deleting ones account(s) vs just letting it become an unused relic? Wouldn't making them dedicate that fraction of their service space to dead accounts/comments/etc be more of a burden than removing it all for them?
People visit reddit for user generated content. If you remove all the memes, links, comments, and answers to all the things you google " X site:reddit.com" to find, it loses value.
To my mind, that value created by one's content would exceed the fractions of a penny it costs to serve it
Ah okay that makes more sense. I was never a big submitter, just commented a lot. Still, you make a good point. I have some highly updated comments in discussion threads (not a lot but still), and you're right that reddit could get residual value from those down the road. Best to scrub completely.
Is there a guide for how to do it thoroughly? I have THOUSANDS of comments, it would take days to do it manually.
You could use something like PowerDeleteSuite.