How do I fully delete my reddit account and posts?

3 years ago by vis4valentine to c/reddit

Hi, I think I'm finally done with Reddit. I haven't log in for many days, and the 2 minutes I've spent on the web site I just thought "Eh, this site really sucks, everything is slow, isn't loading on my slow connecting, and is an overall pain".

If you know who am I you know I have no shortage of Throwaway accounts if I need to check something, but I wanted to delete my main account, the one with over 200K karma and still 45 coins (I didn't pay for them, someone gave me gold a while ago).

I don't wanna spend an eternity manually removing everything, so I wonder if there is a tool that does it for me quickly, before I delete the account.

cerement 12 points 3 years ago

Operation Razit

you need to edit your posts first – Reddit has been caught multiple times since June restoring deleted posts

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Byereddithellolemmy 4 points 3 years ago

Is there a script out there that can apply this to all comments?

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cerement 4 points 3 years ago

the Operation Razit I linked to down near the bottom explains how to use Power Delete Suite to do that

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Byereddithellolemmy 3 points 3 years ago

Appreciate you.

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Pechente 7 points 3 years ago

Power Delete Suite can alter or delete your previous comments and posts and after that you can remove your account

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ChaoticNeutralCzech 2 points 3 years ago

It can do both in one run, as well as making a backup. However, only about half of my Reddit comments got archived in the CSV (also, you can only download it after the script finishes so I always make sure I can leave it running for several hours, which it needs because of rate limits and hope it doesn't crash – it never did, though).

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Longmactoppedup 2 points 3 years ago

Afterwards did you search for your username + site:reddit.com ?

I found power delete only did most of the comments. I think can only see the top 1000 of each sort method.

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acockworkorange 4 points 3 years ago

After you do what others suggested, go ahead and file a GDPR request to scrape your data on reddit. That's a legally binding procedure and they have to comply.

Here's a handy guide with a not so encouraging message at the end.

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square252 3 points 3 years ago

I used redact.dev

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whRQla8GEMdqXW2OVCbS 2 points 3 years ago

I used https://github.com/ksurl/Shreddit

Here's a quick bash script in case you have multiple accounts and want to run the delete on a schedule. Run it under a dedicated service account or modify the script to use venv or pipenv.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
cd ~ || exit $?
[[ "$PATH" =~ (^|:)'~/.local/bin'(:|$) ]] || export PATH="~/.local/bin:$PATH"
command -v shreddit > /dev/null || python3 -m pip install --user --upgrade pip Shreddit@git+https://github.com/ksurl/Shreddit.git
while read -r acct; do
  echo shreddit -u "$acct"
  shreddit -u "$acct"
done &lt; &lt;( sed -E '/^\[/!d; s/\[|\]//g' praw.ini )

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un_aristocrate 1 point 3 years ago

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1984 3 points 3 years ago

May have some trust issues with that...

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un_aristocrate 2 points 3 years ago

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