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I bet they don't actually remove posts/comments just flag/hide them

• derwiki 3y ago
  CCPA Delete Request should actually remove them
• martinohansen 3y ago
  I think that’d be illegal for EU citizens at least
  • VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
    Hard-delete isn't required by GDPR. The data itself just has to be made non-identifiable. You don't actually have to remove the database records, for instance.
    • 7373737373 3y ago
      Every (collection of) comments is eventually identifiable
      • prepend 3y ago
        There’s identifiable and sufficiently deidentified to meet the legal standard. Removing the userid meets the GDPR definition, but I bet you could reidentify based on patterns or fingerprints, if you really wanted to.
• galdor 3y ago
  The trick with online platforms is to edit messages, replacing the content with a random string (this script supports both ".", a random string or a fixed string of your choosing). Most web apps will keep a copy of messages you delete, but they usually do not save an history of every modification.
  • stickyricky 3y ago
    Unfortunately most "web-scale" apps I've worked on are basically immutable (aside from retention policies). You just keep appending forever because updates are too expensive. So more than likely your comment history will exist on Reddit's servers but they use a clever "GROUP BY" semantic on read to only return the most recent version.
    • thebigwinning 3y ago
      We are at least raising the cost of them storing and sorting through versions then.
  • nvr219 3y ago
    1. Shredding does this edit. 2. I think this is a myth and they still keep the original message.
• m45t3r 3y ago
  From the repo README's: > When it became known that post edits were not saved but post deletions were saved, code was added to edit your post prior to deletion. In fact you can actually turn off deletion all together and just have lorem ipsum (or a message about Shreddit) but this will increase how long it takes the script to run as it will be going over all of your messages every run.
• commandlinefan 3y ago
  OTOH, part of reddit's "value proposition" is as much the content moderation (overzealous removal of comments that some highly opinionated moderator with too much time on their hands happens to disagree with) as it is the content itself - it sounds like Shreddit has a way around the hiding, but if Reddit turned around and undeleted _every_ deleted comment, Reddit would become a very, very different forum (IMHO a better one, but Reddit is what Reddit is).