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It's been a while since I've checked so I may be wrong on this, but deleting your reddit account will remove the username while preserving the content. Deleting
by Puer 9y ago
It's been a while since I've checked so I may be wrong on this, but deleting your reddit account will remove the username while preserving the content. Deleting your comment without deleting your account will preserve both.
Reddit internally saves post deletions but not post edits, so if you really want to delete something you should edit it to some nonsense before you delete it.
Of course, the best way to protect yourself is to never post anything compromising in the first place because there are already a lot of services out there that cache everything, but I think it's a good practice to follow if you're going to delete anyway.
- lucb1e 9y ago> deleting your reddit account Ah, that's something completely different.
- plexicle 9y agoYou're both half-right. Comments that are deleted (either self-deleted, removed by a mod/admin, or deleted from account deletion) will disappear as long as no one replied to it. This behavior is the same, no matter how the comment gets deleted. If the comment has at least one reply, then the username will become [deleted] (or [removed]), but the comment/content will remain.
- Buge 9y ago>If the comment has at least one reply, then the username will become [deleted] (or [removed]), but the comment/content will remain. That's false. Both the content and the username will be replaced by [deleted] if the user (or a mod) asked for the comment to be deleted, and it had at least 1 reply. Here's a test I just did: https://www.reddit.com/r/television+none/comments/88rd9e/netflix_acquires_seth_rogen/dwnns4q/ https://www.reddit.com/r/television+none/comments/88rd9e/net...