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I wipe my comments about every 6 months. Not just delete, I overwrite them and then purge them with one of those browser scripts. Looking back, it appears my hi

by _fs 3y ago

I wipe my comments about every 6 months. Not just delete, I overwrite them and then purge them with one of those browser scripts. Looking back, it appears my history has been completely restored going back 5 years. Beyond 5 years, they are still deleted.

floren 3y ago
Completely restored to the overwritten value you set before deleting, or completely restored to the actual original content as people have speculated could happen?
- aroundtown 3y ago
  For my account, it restored to the actual original content, not the overwritten.
  - floren 3y ago
    Very interesting, thank you!
  - kazinator 3y ago
    That means they went back to five-year-old backups. Delete actions which you took five years ago were undone. This more or less tends to confirm that Reddit management handed down a mandate to restore everything being deleted, not only recently but going back as far as they have backups. The restoration isn't perfect; it doesn't patch back the posts into your timeline, so when you search for your own posts, it appears empty. That is probably deliberate, the idea being that people don't notice the reverts. When I re-delete a post manually, that action seems to stick. But for how long; they will probably be repeatedly restoring old posts from backups from now on. Luckily, I have every single link to each one of my deleted posts. I told Shreddit to save them. The numerous .json files have all the info to re-delete the posts. Shreddit can be modified (or else a new program written) to use the .json files as input rather than obtaining a list of posts from the API.
    - 93po 3y ago
      Sucks for me bc I always wipe all my comments and then delete the account every few months. I don’t have my old accounts to re-delete comments
    - comradesmith 3y ago
      I don’t think backups were used, likely all comments are just soft deleted and versioned. So I think they just toggled off soft deleted comments, and reverted to older comment versions. That might show up as comments missing their added “edit:”s. Another commenter here said they think this was an accident, I’m inclined to agree

by _fs 3y ago

floren 3y ago

Completely restored to the overwritten value you set before deleting, or completely restored to the actual original content as people have speculated could happen?

aroundtown 3y ago
For my account, it restored to the actual original content, not the overwritten.
- floren 3y ago
  Very interesting, thank you!
- kazinator 3y ago
  That means they went back to five-year-old backups. Delete actions which you took five years ago were undone. This more or less tends to confirm that Reddit management handed down a mandate to restore everything being deleted, not only recently but going back as far as they have backups. The restoration isn't perfect; it doesn't patch back the posts into your timeline, so when you search for your own posts, it appears empty. That is probably deliberate, the idea being that people don't notice the reverts. When I re-delete a post manually, that action seems to stick. But for how long; they will probably be repeatedly restoring old posts from backups from now on. Luckily, I have every single link to each one of my deleted posts. I told Shreddit to save them. The numerous .json files have all the info to re-delete the posts. Shreddit can be modified (or else a new program written) to use the .json files as input rather than obtaining a list of posts from the API.
  - 93po 3y ago
    Sucks for me bc I always wipe all my comments and then delete the account every few months. I don’t have my old accounts to re-delete comments
  - comradesmith 3y ago
    I don’t think backups were used, likely all comments are just soft deleted and versioned. So I think they just toggled off soft deleted comments, and reverted to older comment versions. That might show up as comments missing their added “edit:”s. Another commenter here said they think this was an accident, I’m inclined to agree