So long and thanks for all the fish, reddit.
Using the PowerDeleteSuite (while it still works) to edit all my comments from a 12 year old account.
P.S. If you want to mass edit and/or delete your comments, do it now (before 01 July when this tool which uses the reddit API stops working).
P.P.S. Yes, I blacked out the embarrassing amount of gold I gave to that dumpster fire of a site.
It’s your decision, and I hate Reddit and Spez ever since they decided to do the whole API thing, but personally, if I were to close my account, I wouldn’t scramble all of my comments and posts. It makes it harder for people who still search for answers to questions on reddit to find what they’re looking for. You aren’t preserving valuable information with this, you’re destroying it.
I deleted all mine, but I don’t feel bad as I don’t think I posted a single thing of value in about 100 pages worth of comments.
I’d rather leave people pissed off at reddit when they go into a thread and see missing comments. Ideally they will look up the deleted post, then realize it was someone trolling
Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
I scrambled years worth of comments into a statement about the fuckery Reddit has committed and left those edited comments intact while deleting my accounts.
This serves a couple of purposes: