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 only allows code blocks, 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.

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

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        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

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          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?

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

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                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

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                  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.

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

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      Older comments (1 year+), if you delete will simply re-appear. Then I tried editing old comments yesterday (using public domain filler text), but overnight my comments have been “restored”. Newer stuff you can certainly do this to.

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      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.

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    Hilarious.

    I’ve been doing this for years personally. I only ever kept my reddit account for 6 months at a time, after which I’d make a new one, and I would override every comment after a month with blank text.

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    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!

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      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.

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    Where do those links take you? The mods might be doing that to demonstrate what could be coming in the future if reddit continues down this path.