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Reddit refuses to delete your comments and posts if you request account deletion telling you to do it yourself. If you delete comments/posts they come back aft
by c2h5oh 3y ago
Reddit refuses to delete your comments and posts if you request account deletion telling you to do it yourself.
If you delete comments/posts they come back after a while.
Since comments/posts may include personally identifiable information that's a GDPR/CCPA violation. Not just a dick move this time, but also illegal.
- em-bee 3y agogenuine question, because i am confused about this: how does this work on mailing lists or quotes in messages? it doesn't make sense to me that reddit has to remove messages when mailinglists don't because they can't. on some systems quotes are implemented as embedded links to the original message, so if the message disappears, the quote disappears. on hackernews quotes are copies that can't be removed. why should personal rights go so far as to remove your contributions to a public discussion? shouldn't that be limited to actually removing only the personally identifiable information that is embedded in the messages?
- lesquivemeau 3y ago> how does this work on mailing lists or quotes in messages Technically, you would have to send a request to every party to delete all your PII.
- treffer 3y agoPII != the whole discussion. A common theme is to set the user ro "deleted user". As long as it is not associated with you it's fine. Also you request deletion that the party and their contractors hold. So a mailing list may not show your name for past messages, but delivered mails are outside their perimeter/scope.
- beezlewax 3y agoYou can edit or replace your text in comments and then delete them.This is what most of these shreddit type apps do
- yomlica8 3y agoWhen deleted comments were restored recently some users were reporting shredded comments were restored to a previous versions, like they had simply restored a backup not rolling back to the pre-deleted state.