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I debated this several years ago (when they released their horrendous redesign and "old" Reddit became a thing, which in my mind signaled the inevitability of w
by Rudism 3y ago
I debated this several years ago (when they released their horrendous redesign and "old" Reddit became a thing, which in my mind signaled the inevitability of what's going on right now). In the end I decided to go through with the full deletion of all my posts and comments instead of just deleting the account for a few reasons:
1. I felt like my content existing on Reddit could give the incorrect impression that I still support the site in some fashion, which I did/do not.
2. I'd been on Reddit for over a decade and was a very different person from when I first signed up, and even though I don't think I posted anything particularly offensive or problematic I still had a fear that some ancient thing I said could some day be used against me.
3. If I had simply deleted my account I would no longer have any control over my old content, so the easiest way to put my mind at ease was to blanket delete everything.
Not to put my younger self down or anything, but I don't think too much of value was lost. The tiny amount of content that I was particularly proud of continued to exist on other sites anyway.