Reddit decided that i can’t delete my account, i tried several times with no luck. Do you have ideas? Should i get myself banned?
Do it on the desktop website, their mobile stuff is broken beyond repair.
They won’t let me kill my account either
Try from desktop. It worked for me.
Just do something to get it banned.
No, don’t. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.
Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.
i sense reddit will “undelete” accounts in the future much like facebook is doing to show “large number of users”
But OP tried that. What else are they to do?
Escalate it to their support team.
Go on there and state that you believe that Nazis should be punched. They’ll ban your account.
Don’t delete your account. There are browser plugins that will edit all your posts to nonsense to fuck up AI models. Be a burden.
They reverted mine before. It’s Reddit, if they don’t have backups or methods to detect mass edits or deletions, I’d be shocked.
But the reversion sets them back and requires resources
preserving your data is more valuable for them than the time spent rewinding your account back half an hour.
hell, they might even have it as an automated script that fires off after it detects to many post edits from your account or something.
Shit. I would have done this.
Happened to me too yesterday I had many alt and my account where I do European activism got shadowbanned so I decided to delete everything but they would not let me, the only way is to cause mayhem and break the rules to make them regret keeping you.
Looks like an OS native dialog, which makes me think this is the app? Have you tried doing it directly on the website instead?
Having the same problem with Twitter account lol got banned 2023 for being nafo embassador but now can’t delete the account somehow.
Slava Ukraïni 🇺🇦🫶🏽🤍
Just get banned. It’s pretty easy nowadays.
No, don’t. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.
Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.
Yeah, there’s a simple code for it, you just have to type “Luigi spez” and they’ll handle this for you.
New meta: ban golf
I don’t think you’re going to get more efficient than “Luigi” right now, which I think might just do it.
Honestly the cultural power that word has right now is inspiring. They are so afraid, and people are seeing that they’re afraid, and that has power in itself.
Make a comment saying „Luigi is good“ or something like that, that should get rid of your Reddit account.
All I did was make a scene by arguing with a bunch of circle jerking divas and the power tripping mods got me banned.
Just send a GDPR deletion request. You can find ready made texts online. Just plug in your email/username and send it. Make sure to request a confirmation of the deletion.
Wouldn’t that require an EU citizenship/ residence? I always assumed that was the case…
That’s funny. I live in a small country so I can’t stop being banned. All I have to do is comment “hey” and my account is gone instantly.
what small country is that? I’ve never heard of this
why? does reddit just assume any and all traffic from your country is VPN traffic?
it’s not just Reddit. it’s more websites every year.
I’ve worked as a sysadmin at companies who have done it. they blacklist an ASN which covers an entire ISP, or they just straight up ban the entire country. it’s the easiest way to get rid of a few kids running penetration scans against the site or whatever. they don’t get much revenue from the users in these countries and so they don’t care. access to the collective knowledge of humanity is always getting smaller in developing countries.
wow that’s so shitty holy heck. i hope none of those websites are essential, or if they are that you find a free and working VNP
I think we can all agree, Nutsack is being falsely maligned.
Wow
Just stop going there. Delete the app, delete the bookmark, and move on with your life.
Yeah I deleted the app and the shortcut on the top of my browser and I dont get the urge anymore
I stopped browsing on my phone during the API debacle, I’d check in on my computer every so often, then I got sick of all the Reddit-ness of everything, deleted the bookmark, and haven’t been back.
Back when the Apollo app stopped working I never again used Reddit. I don’t even remember how to login and it was a throwaway forwarding email so my 8 year account died with Apollo.
Make sure you go back and delete every comment or posting first.
Doesn’t matter don’t do it.
A few months back someone posted that they found all of their deleted posts from when the great migration to Lemmy happened. And I checked myself that day and found that a large portion of my posts that I had deleted were restored. And I had verified the day that I had left Reddit that my posts were gone. There was no history on my account. And if I look right now those posts exist again.
I’ve heard that editing your comments into random sentences is an effective workaround.
You can only go so far back, and then it won’t let you edit older posts. I tried many months ago.
You have to use the API and scripts.
That’s both frustrating and evil.
I recommend using a tool to scramble all of your comments, waiting a while, and then deleting. Check back every few days to verify deletion before ultimately closing your account. For some reason, if a subreddit is hidden or closed, you can delete your messages from there until it’s reopened.
I spent about 2 weeks deleting my accounts from reddit during the mobile app exodus.
yep, looks like mine are back as well. wow.
Only thing i regret about deleting my reddit was not doing this beforehand :l
Also just remembered i may have some lost account that isnt deleted, shrug
