Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
Magister@lemmy.world 1 month agoI did that in June last year, after 13 years of reddit and thousands of comments, all “gone”
Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO
Magister@lemmy.world 1 month agoI did that in June last year, after 13 years of reddit and thousands of comments, all “gone”
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.
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.
slickgoat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I deleted 12 plus years worth and they are still gone.
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.
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.
glockenspiel@programming.dev 1 month ago
There’s also credible reports that Reddit is testing an even sneakier method. They will hide the “deleted” comments when you are logged in and looking for them in your history. But other people can still see them; Reddit just understands you are a hostile actor in their eyes so they pull manipulation games like with shadow banning.