Deleted my 12 year old, 43334 Karma, reddit account

Whiskeyomega@kbin.social to Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 294 points –

I feel free !
Thanks to Power Delete Suite.
I actually run cupoftea.social on mastodon so I was already very familiar with the fediverse. The more platforms for it the better.

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And 37 points on here already. Just 43297 to go
!remindme 12 years

How do you get points?

Right now it's the if you get any boosts and not the upvote button. I heard they were going to switch it at some point though I could be wrong

I won't delete my account immediately. I am concerned they will reinstate all comments in a month or so. Want to make sure they are not comming back before i delete my account.

Same here. Ran a script to edit and delete all my comments yesterday. At least cleared out the 1,000 that Reddit saves in your comment history. I’m not deleting my account yet in case they decide to mysteriously restore my comments.

I did the same thing and I saw someone here mention after they ran a script some comments magically reappeared some time after. I checked mine and low and behold about 10 (out of 4,500) reappeared so it wasn’t to bad editing and deleting them.

If enough folks do it, Reddit will most likely flag any comment edits or deletes that happen > 2 months (arbitrary) after the comment creation date.

Reddit already has the data and they will figure out a way to recover 90%+ of it.

I did the same with two accounts I have with over 100k comment karma each. Didn't delete the accounts (yet), but might as well have.

Someone should make a site where everyone can post their shreds and we can see things like total karma burned or total comments shredded, or top shredded accounts.

Congratulations! I thought I would miss reddit, but I sure don't! Welcome to a nice place!

Agreed. The fediverse feels cozier and requires less of my time than Reddit

Congratulations!, I hope they don't restore your comments, they really don't deserve them.

Congrats! Feels liberating. Just deleted my entire history (posts and comms) this morning! 12 years, 35k karma. I'm waiting a bit to delete my account in case the rollback story is a thing so I can delete them again.

I'm not going to delete my 225k karma account. I am going to use GreaseMonkey to overwrite all of my comments & posts with "Censored by Reddit"

Did the same. 12 year account with posts and comments for a wide variety of subs. Used Nuke Reddit History add on which edits the comments and then deletes them. I started it a week ago and each day run it again for the posts it missed. Will delete the account on 1st July. No Regrets..

why do people care about karma so much tho?

Probably status. Means you contributed a lot. Of course in real life it doesn’t mean anything!

I'll go against the "it doesn't matter" grain and give you a real answer: It just feels good to know people like having you around and appreciate your contributions. I could look at my karma total and know that in the 12 years I used reddit, an average of ~27 people per day, every day, appreciated the fact that I was there. Even if it took almost nothing for them to show it, it was nice to be reminded that I connected with that many people in a positive way.

On the other hand, it makes the site as a whole shittier, because people become obsessed with making their number bigger, and a huge amount of activity is done purely with that goal in mind.

Well, I only claim to speak for how I view it -- why people care about it (which was the question). Not some guess at how it affects the site overall.

i honestly don't care about it at all. my main reddit has like 60k and is 14 years old. it's really just a number that shows how much you've posted on the site / how long you've been on the site

sort of like your age. why do we track age? just an arbitrary number based on the earth going around the sun. but it's a number and it shows progress so why not

Well done sir! Your KBIN comrades salute your courage and valor!

I can feel the heat death of the tech bro universe in my soul and it is nourishing. Let the great separation of social media ensue. Leave the corporations to mingle and advertise eachother... and let us go be us without algorithm and financial motivation. I like it. I like it a lot.

I deleted my 7 year old 1 million karma account, at least all the comments and submissions. As subreddits open back up from private more keep trickling in and I'm having to run Power Delete Suite again to get them all. I am waiting until the 30th before full deletion just to make sure I got everything because I don't want them to profit off my posts and replies in the future.

Does anyone know how I can scrub the comments on a suspended account?

As long as you can log in & edit your comments you can run a GreaseMonkey script to nuke them.

Yeah, I was mostly a lurker on reddit, but actually posted a lot more than I thought I did. I'm cleaning out my account now. But I'm not deleting it yet. I want to give it a few weeks to see if they try to role back any accounts to restore some of the content that was lost.

Here's hoping I post even more here.

I just requested my GDPR export; once I get that, I'll both delete the account, and request deletion of my data.

It's good to extract your own data too, don't rely in their complainment.

Please don't make the mistake of deleting your account. it disassociates your data and it has become clear that mass deletion tools can't remove all your posts. You really do want your account after the 30th so you can send a legal take down notice as an extra special fuck you to Reddit.

If you're in Europe you're legally entitled to have your data removed. If Reddit keeps up this crap, I'll do that after June 30th.

I just deleted mine as well after not using Reddit for more than a total of about a half hour in the past week. Didn't feel a thing, either. My phone's battery life has improved drastically and so has my mental health. It's actually to the point where I'm not sure if I even care to be here or any other Reddit alternatives. I understand they're all growing but none of it feels the same, and is it really all so bad to not feel the need to be on social media every waking hour?

How will these tools (power delete, shreddit, redact.dev etc) behave after July 1st? Will users still be able to nuke their content or do they need to hurry tfu before the fatidic date?

Not sure about the others, but Power Delete Suite will still work. It runs locally in your browser in the user's preexisting auth context. To reddit, it's not going to look any different than someone manually editing/deleting their posts through a browser, except the rate at which those actions are performed.

It's open source, you can see exactly what it does and how it works.

Thank you! I'm not sure it'll be the same for shreddit as it must be registered as a "script" application on reddit in order to work so I'm guessing it's using API.

Thank you! I’m not sure it’ll be the same for shreddit as it must be registered as a “script” application on reddit in order to work so I’m guessing it’s using API.

That's correct, it is using the API. If it's being registered as an app in reddit for your user, that's shreddit requesting authorization to get OAuth tokens for your user.

Ohhh lovely, I joined cupoftea.social back when Elon took over Twitter. Welcome!