Nuking my 12yr/100k karma Reddit Account.

3 years ago by Reddit_was_fun to c/reddit

I just ran Power Delete Suite on all of my comments and self posts, stating they have been removed in protest.

On July 1st, I am deleting every comment and post, then closing my account. Reddit was fun while it lasted.

The fediverse is still raw, but I see massive protentional here, and I am ready for this journey with all of you.

MrAegis 27 points 3 years ago

I wouldn't delete your account (in case Reddit tries to replace the deleted comments as they have been doing). But I would unsubscribe from every subreddit.

Additionally, if you have any very useful comments/posts, repost them to Lemmy and then edit them to leave some information that will redirect users to your posts in Lemmy. That way good information isn't lost and you'll help to slowly drive users towards Lemmy over time.

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gylotip 4 points 3 years ago

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DrCatface 2 points 3 years ago

all my comments were on removed subs so i dont think theyre all that valuable

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Lazylazycat 3 points 3 years ago

Do you have evidence of reddit replacing comments?

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MrAegis 4 points 3 years ago

Thanks for pointing out that there may be more to this, I dug into it a bit more. A few users reported that their comments/posts were being restored:

@shindig1457@lemmy.world https://lemmy.ml/post/1290893

@Beardliest@lemmy.world https://lemmy.ml/comment/690447

It looks like it could be related to issues with Powerdelete, or else issues with being able to delete comments while a sub is/was set to private. https://kbin.social/...

However, there is also a user that reported that their manually deleted posts came back @sukarn@mstdn.social https://mstdn.social/@sukarn/110553511800817413 Which could be related to Reddit performing maintenance on the servers.

Either way it's probably worth it to hold onto your account for a while longer to verify that there weren't any issues with your posts/comments being deleted.

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dystop 2 points 3 years ago

I've been replacing my posts with gibberish (google "gibberish generator") and a link to lemmy.

Be aware that /r/AskReddit has some automation that will delete your post if they detect some script. I don't know how it works, but so far the trigger for me seems to be any link to the /r/apolloapp post where Christian posts his call logs.

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