I was going to wait until the 29th to erase my content and delete my account, just in case the board woke up from their torpor, decided to stop the hemorrhaging and remove Spez… but now that Reddit is violating their own TOS commitments, and I just got my personal data download request filled… I guess I’m starting now.
I want to say that I’ve been deleting my reddit comments since before the blackout and more keep appearing every time I look at top or controversial. It’s a good idea to start a delete script and then keep checking until comments stop showing up or reddit makes an API change that breaks it or whatever.
It goes too fast and most of its edit operations are rejected by Reddit’s rate limiter, so each run will be roughly 5% successful. Several forks fix the issue by introducing a delay, so make sure to use one of those or make your own.
Reddit restores comments and revert edits at random. Maybe due to some backup restore due to all the drama. I re-run PDS every day.
Deleted comments can be read and restored by mods. Edited comments make the original comment unavailable.
I was going to wait until the 29th to erase my content and delete my account, just in case the board woke up from their torpor, decided to stop the hemorrhaging and remove Spez… but now that Reddit is violating their own TOS commitments, and I just got my personal data download request filled… I guess I’m starting now.
I want to say that I’ve been deleting my reddit comments since before the blackout and more keep appearing every time I look at top or controversial. It’s a good idea to start a delete script and then keep checking until comments stop showing up or reddit makes an API change that breaks it or whatever.
This was just recommended to me: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
Disclosure: I know nothing about who created this and haven’t used it yet myself.
Notes on PDS:
It goes too fast and most of its edit operations are rejected by Reddit’s rate limiter, so each run will be roughly 5% successful. Several forks fix the issue by introducing a delay, so make sure to use one of those or make your own.
Reddit restores comments and revert edits at random. Maybe due to some backup restore due to all the drama. I re-run PDS every day.
Deleted comments can be read and restored by mods. Edited comments make the original comment unavailable.