Power Deleted...but shadow posts are apparently a thing.
I might have to look more into my state's right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I'd kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I'd purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is...disappointing.
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Known issue for older accounts with more than 1,000 posts. You should be using the Google search site:Reddit.com username to return more content to delete.
You can also do a data request on Reddit which will deliver your data on spreadsheets.
I never had my deletions reversed. The only thing that did happen is when subreddits restored, I had to delete that content too.
I had 6 accounts. I now have zero.
Ugh, that's extremely disappointing. I've got thousands of comments coming up on Google all the way back to 2009 that don't show up on Reddit searches or my profile anymore. I wonder if there's an automated way I can edit and then delete these.
There’s a premium service called Shreddit that will take your GDPR request files and delete them for you.
YSK though that your top results in Google are also likely to be the top traffic to Reddit. So deleting top down will remove those traffic sources to Reddit.
My top 5 results a month ago were also the posts that were driving questions via PM years later.
I didn’t pay to delete mine. I didn’t have as much as you guys to worry about. Maybe 400 or so. Every couple years I created new accounts. I lucked out because of it.
Likewise - 11,500 hits on google
Remember Google still knows of your deleted content if you just did your account wipe. Those will take a few weeks to not show up.
The way listings work on reddit is very confusing to most users. I used to think that listings refilled once you removed things from them, but they don't. If you have more than 1000 posts, comments, or whatever, you won't ever see the 1001st thing.
Meaning that posts aren't actually removed, just set to deleted in the database. Also means that they don't use that deleted flag in the database query, instead filtering out the deleted posts after they have been retrieved, which in my mind would be a less efficient way to do it.
That's why so many people tell you to edit your comments prior to deletion, I guess.