Reddit threatens you for using Power Delete Suite and other tools now

jcg@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 27 points –

Shredding up my Reddit comments (editing them to say fuck spez, linking to Lemmy and Kbin, not deleting but I don't care if they do end up deleted) and I got this.

I also got several hilarious AutoMod replies from different protesting subs. r/ProgrammerHumor requires a code block with an import statement before every comment, and r/shitposting has completely banned the letter B.

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That's from AutoModerator, which is configured by subreddit mods. Messages from Reddit admins would not come from AutoModerator.

Huh, I just realized that but I'm not sure what the AutoMod rule would be in that case.

It's definitely subs automod, I used the delete tool a few years ago and got multiple messages telling me to stop scrubbing my comments

That's actually really interesting that subreddit mods set it up that way that it notices if someone changes so much so quickly and send such a message. I would have never thought of that, but I mean I guess it makes sense if they want to keep the subreddit content. Still really interesting. So these mods probably want to intimidate the person to get them to stop?

Well it worked on me lol.. I stopped deleting my comments and just deleted my account

Does that keep your comments forever?

Yes, but your account becomes "unlinked" from that comment. The user is shown as [deleted]

I tend not to delete my comments anymore because many people use Reddit as a source for information and I find it frustrating when a potential solution for me has their comments deleted

Yeah, I know that with [deleted], but thanks for the answer.

That's just interesting for me because I thought a company would need to delete all information about a user if they delete their account… I wonder if this is conform to the GPDR.

I have no idea about the gdpr aspect but I would assume it's fine because that comment is in no way linked back to you. I could be wrong

Why is it not linked to you? I could write my name here, my address, any personified information. And I think even without that a company must delete everything it got from you if you want.

By that I meant linked back to your Reddit account

If you wrote any personal info on a public forum, it's probably already been archived somewhere anyways especially with Reddit (I can find most threads on archive.org)

I get what you mean by deleting your comments too though, but all I know is that Reddit doesn't do that. It just keeps the comment but makes it "anonymous"

I know that most stuff is archived and everything, but my point still is that I thought that companies like Reddit have to delete all content a user generated like that. As I said, that's just what I'm pretty sure the law here was like, but I mean, probably I'm wrong. It's still very interesting to me; I might look into this at some other time.

On a laptop you can sort your comments by "top" and manually delete. Those are the highest visibility anyway.

I believe only your most recent 1000 comments show up tied to your profile, so you cannot delete any but those. Deleting #1 doesn't bump #1001 into slot #1000

The lists are a bit different for controversial/top/hot, which is why the deletion tools all check all three.

Older comments will still exist and be search-indexable, editable, and deletable, but you'll have to find them... manually. I guess with 3P search engines? A nightmare.

Meaning Reddit is in violation of municipalities that have data deletion rules, but so far no one seems to care.

You can also do this if you request "desktop site" on a mobile browser.

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Too late. I wiped it all. " r/ProgrammerHumor requires a code block with an import statement before every comment, and r/shitposting has completely banned the letter B." That's hilarious, btw.

What was it? I know it wasn't really from reddit but I wanted to see what it said.

Okay so where is that nuke script before it won't work anymore?!

Against the rules to use an adblocker? WTF.

Used it last night and wiped 12 years of history from my account, rewrote several comments to say I was an RiF user. It actually got me banned from a couple subs for spam. Not that it matters, shame it had to come to this!

Have you downloaded the content before or anything like this? I mean I know that's a deeply personal stuff, but I could never imagine just deleting so much I put time into before I get a backup and can at least personally still have it.