YSK if you overwrote your comments and posts that Reddit is restoring them to previous states

DO NOT DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT YET....

https://kbin.social/m/youshouldknow@lemmy.world/t/35011

YSK if you overwrote your comments and posts that Reddit is restoring them to previous states - youshouldknow - kbin.social

DO NOT DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT YET....

It seems like this could be another PR problem for Reddit if it becomes common knowledge that you effectively cannot edit or delete comments that you have posted. It would also seem to conflict with the European-style “right to be forgotten”.
It does seem like a terrible decision, I wasn't even going to delete my stuff because it's frankly useless, there's not much of it and I couldn't be bothered. But now I kind of want to just to put a stick in the spokes