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Note this line that you quoted: "Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible
by jcranmer 3y ago
Note this line that you quoted: "Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content."
The privacy policy is explicitly saying that deleting your account does not delete your comments.
- bjord 3y agoThis has always been the case. That's why you'll sometimes see posts from [deleted].
- spacebanana7 3y agoThis makes sense for a site where all content is publicly available. Even if reddit were to cascade delete every comment and post a user had created, the data would be trivially available through web archives and public data dumps. Changing the username to indicate the deletion of an account is helpful to show that a user cannot be interacted with any more, but no deletion process could truly remove content a user had created from the internet.
- hajile 3y ago> unless you first delete the specific content. That specifically states that content you deleted will NOT be visible.