I used the Power Delete Suite fork by pkolyvas and it worked and my comments were redacted/deleted correctly for over a week.

Today I checked my account and sorted my comments by “Top” and to my surprise I see that many of my top rated comments have been forcibly brought back by Reddit. The curious thing is that it’s only top comments on technical subs like r/MachineLearning that were restored, they must have realized that being in the Google search results for technical questions is critical for them.

Is it because they detect “bot activity” and they simply revert it? Has anyone had success with doing that manually or semi-manually?

Thanks!

  • zerbey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I would assume reddit keeps backups of all their databases (unless they’re incredibly stupid) and so they could restore any instance they wanted. Yes, you can delete your comments from the current instances but I guarantee they’re backed up somewhere and will remain in storage for years to come. So no, there’s no way to reliably delete your comments.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I meant reliable as in “they don’t detect it and won’t automatically say that the previous version of the comment is better”. Something like Power Delete Suite but which has some random element to generate unique gibberish for each comment.