I don’t know if Reddit is just trying to be a dick or what, but as I started to delete some comments, I’m not able to see any comments in my profile “hasn’t commented on anything”, but if I visit actual posts where I’ve commented, I can clearly see my comments there.

Does anyone know what’s going on? Not even Redact or Power Delete Suite can see those comments, either :/

  • explodingkitchen@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is a known problem: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than

    Also, you won’t be able to delete anything in private subreddits.

    Ask Reddit for your data. Until then, this might still work: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59451/Finally-Managed-to-erase-all-1477-of-my-comments#comments

    and after you get your GDPR files from Reddit, you can do this: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/164034/Automated-ways-of-removing-reddit-content

    TL;DR: you’ll need the permalinks for older comments if you want to delete them using a script. Otherwise, you’ll have to google them and manually delete everything.

    Also, if anyone’s wondering, the format for an extracted comments.csv from the GDPR files you’ll get from reddit is just a flat text file. The first line is (explicitly)

    id,permalink,date,ip,subreddit,gildings,link,parent,body,media

    and every entry that follows is the id, permalink, etc. so it might be possible to dummy up a comments.csv file by extracting stuff from an archive (as described in the second link above) and use the shreddit program from the third link if you wanted to delete things while waiting for Reddit to fulfill your data request.

  • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I think it may just be Reddit being inferior software, but it happened to me, too. I have been Googling “Reddit “ and my username, deleting what comes up, and doing the search again in a couple of days to see if it stuck. (Deleted comments will show up on Google for a few days because of caching, so there’s no point in checking immediately). It takes a while, but it’s fairly reliable, and it can be done in small batches.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      Regardless, using Shreddit + my GRPD export is working! It’s slow, but it’s absolutely working!! I’ll let it continue to run overnight and that should be that! =)

      • Hogger85b@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Mine ran pretty much constantly from thursday night to this morning to remove 60k comments (although script crashed once on Friday and Sunday at0200 for isp.resets while I was asleep so not quite full time)

        (One tip if it does stall make a note of the comment I’d it stopped on and clean out the copy of the comments.csv the script uses above that point. That way it is not starting again)