Shredding up my Reddit comments (editing them to say fuck spez, linking to Lemmy and Kbin, not deleting but I don’t care if they do end up deleted) and I got this.

I also got several hilarious AutoMod replies from different protesting subs. r/ProgrammerHumor requires a code block with an import statement before every comment, and r/shitposting has completely banned the letter B.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    On a laptop you can sort your comments by “top” and manually delete. Those are the highest visibility anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Older comments (1 year+), if you delete will simply re-appear. Then I tried editing old comments yesterday (using public domain filler text), but overnight my comments have been “restored”. Newer stuff you can certainly do this to.

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      1 year ago

      I believe only your most recent 1000 comments show up tied to your profile, so you cannot delete any but those. Deleting #1 doesn’t bump #1001 into slot #1000

      The lists are a bit different for controversial/top/hot, which is why the deletion tools all check all three.

      Older comments will still exist and be search-indexable, editable, and deletable, but you’ll have to find them… manually. I guess with 3P search engines? A nightmare.

      Meaning Reddit is in violation of municipalities that have data deletion rules, but so far no one seems to care.