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
That’s pretty dubious, otherwise why would I get all these replies from 3-7 years ago? Not new replies on dead threads, but the replies were posted that long ago, and I’m being notified about them now as “new” comments. Seems a lot like deleted posts coming back.
Yes, comments are being restored, but what they’re saying is it’s not something they’re doing deliberately. The scripts people were running were basically failing and comments got restored automatically. That message literally encourages you to run them again or try different ones
That doesn’t even make sense. How could a script failing to delete a post have this outcome?
Fwiw this is not necessarily a new problem. As a mod I’ve seen it before, if you go through hitting “remove” on a whole bunch of comments in a row often some of them will be visible again when you refresh the page. Something similar could be what’s happened here. Reddit’s backend has never been very good.
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