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reveddit and unddit (and many more) archive copies of comments very frequently. To not have your comment archived/copied, you'd need to delete it within just a
by bloopernova 4y ago
reveddit and unddit (and many more) archive copies of comments very frequently. To not have your comment archived/copied, you'd need to delete it within just a couple of minutes of submitting it. Reddit itself has no real way to prevent this from happening.
I don't know if there is a way to have a forum-like reddit clone that would allow comments to be truly deleted and forgotten. Heck, I'd like it if there was infrastructure available for sites to verify GnuPG-signed comments.
- sli 4y agoUneddit and Reveddit, at least, do not archive comments deleted by the user that posted them. They archive comments deleted by moderators and admins.
- bloopernova 4y agoAh, I didn't know that. Thank you for the new information!
- 0l 4y agoThis is not true: these sites rely on Pushshift, which archives ALL comments (at the time of their creation), and Pushshifts data is then compared with Reddits data, allowing it to work out which comments have been deleted.
- someNameIG 4y agoYou can request your account not to be (publicly) archived on Pushshift.
- hot_gril 4y agoAt least deleting from the main site reduces the chance of someone stumbling upon something "bad" that causes them to target you.
- brokenmachine 4y agoReveddit used to work pretty well, but for about the last couple of months every time I've tried to use it, it doesn't seem to show any deleted comments. I think reddit has nerfed pushshift.