Jacobp100Jul 21, 2023

Reddit claiming they weren’t recovering deleted posts

https://lemmy.ml/post/2290705

Reddit claiming they weren’t recovering deleted posts - Lemmy

I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence, but I raised a case with the ICO in the UK, and today they got back to me asking for all my communication with Reddit. Also today - after a month of silence - Reddit also emailed me with this If you’re in the UK and had been affected by posts being restored, I’d recommend contacting the ICO. It takes less than 5 minutes

Show threadSpaceCadetJul 21, 2023

To be fair, I haven’t seen any of my deleted comments come back. What I have seen though, are things that could be confused for it:

  • Scripts like PowerDeleteSuite don’t actually delete all comments. They’re limited to the 1000 comments it can see via the new/top/controversial sorting list, so when you google for your username, you still find posts.
  • Comments in subreddits that have been made private are not visible on your profile. When the sub is opened again, the comments pop up again on your profile.
Show threadHunter2

Regarding PowerDeleteSuite it’s because it hasn’t been updated in multiple years and since then (like a year after the last PDS update) Reddit added a cooldown for editing comments. I assume the same exists for deleting.

So when you run the script, occasionally you hit the 5-sec cooldown but the script just keeps moving, thinking everything is okay.

Jul 21, 2023 at 3:14pmWeb
Show threadSpaceCadetJul 21, 2023

Regarding PowerDeleteSuite it’s because it hasn’t been updated in multiple years

It’s not really that. Reddit just doesn’t expose more comments through its API, so there’s nothing PowerDeleteSuite can do. You have to use other tools to get at those shadow comments. The most reliable way is to do a GDPR data request, and then feed the results through the free shreddit tool: github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

GitHub - andrewbanchich/shreddit: Delete your Reddit data.

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Show threadSokathHisEyesOpenJul 21, 2023
I just used the tool last week and it deleted 3500 comments successfully. A couple of times it encountered errors, but it stopped and asked what I wanted to do before proceeding.