Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO

• Magister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I did that in June last year, after 13 years of reddit and thousands of comments, all “gone”

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Go back and check again. They are actively restoring deleted comments. About once a month I log back on and delete another round. Usually another 10-15 “mysteriously” pop back up again.

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    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Son of a bitch your right. All my posts got restored! I ran one of those scripts that went through and deleted them all… and sure as fuck I can find them if I search for my reddit account name.

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    • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I deleted 12 plus years worth and they are still gone.

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    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think they’re catching people who are mass deleting comments at once. I recall reading that people were having more success deleting comments in smaller batches during the whole API debacle.

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      • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They were a bit more tricky than that I believe. They capped the user page at 3 years of search. So when you delete everything using those scripts it deletes the newer stuff but misses all the older ones. Then after the script runs it shows - no comments.

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