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Fair warning, I used PowerDeleteSuite and Reddit seems to have backfilled a bunch of deleted comments while keeping them off my user page. Every now and then I

Fair warning, I used PowerDeleteSuite and Reddit seems to have backfilled a bunch of deleted comments while keeping them off my user page. Every now and then I'll read an old thread and see my username and have to manually delete the comment.

ProllyInfamous 3y ago
Same. Also happened to my brother's account after we thought we'd nuked everything.
- dorchadas 3y ago
  I used to use Shreddit and other tools and the same thing has happened. Even worse, they give me notifications if someone replies in a sub that didn't opt-in to archive mode (another dumb decision; should've been opt-out), but I can delete them.
  - dabluecaboose 3y ago
    >Even worse, they give me notifications if someone replies in a sub that didn't opt-in to archive mode (another dumb decision; should've been opt-out), God, that is just the WORST concept especially nowadays. I was looking for info on water filtes and found a bunch of ChatGPT comments from 3 months ago on an 8 year old thread shilling for some company. Of course, they were all upvoted to the top of the thread. I even had a notification of someone just commenting "lol" on an offhand comment I made about Firefly in 2011. As if that needed to be said.
- duskwuff 3y ago
  If you were doing this during the protests, comments on closed (protesting) subreddits were hidden from users' profiles until the sub reopened.
callalex 3y ago
This seems very illegal in some places.
- calfuris 3y ago
  I don't think that reddit is "backfilling." I don't have time to check right now, but I suspect that PowerDeleteSuite goes through your profile to find things to delete. Your profile is limited to showing 1k entries. IIRC that's the top 1k according to whatever ranking you're using, so you could get some more comments by re-running it sorting by top, controversial, etc, but if you made a lot of comments PowerDeleteSuite just won't be able to find everything.
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  - nosrepa 3y ago
    Profile is 2k as it is a combination of both the 1k comment/post listings, iirc.
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  - dabluecaboose 3y ago
    It may not be backfilling, but I can confirm that my user profile is not showing comments that exist elsewhere on reddit. Sorting by "controversial" does, though, show new comments that weren't on the main page. So you might be on to something.
  - lotophage 3y ago
    I played with the python PRAW package to scrub old comments a while ago. Even iterating through the different sorts (new/hot/controversial/etc) I could remove everything there, but different comments would appear there after some time. My theory was Reddit ran batch jobs on some cadence (daily maybe?) to generate the topN comments lists for each users profile page. Running my script a couple of times over a several days seemed to clear everything.

ProllyInfamous 3y ago

Same. Also happened to my brother's account after we thought we'd nuked everything.

dorchadas 3y ago
I used to use Shreddit and other tools and the same thing has happened. Even worse, they give me notifications if someone replies in a sub that didn't opt-in to archive mode (another dumb decision; should've been opt-out), but I can delete them.
- dabluecaboose 3y ago
  >Even worse, they give me notifications if someone replies in a sub that didn't opt-in to archive mode (another dumb decision; should've been opt-out), God, that is just the WORST concept especially nowadays. I was looking for info on water filtes and found a bunch of ChatGPT comments from 3 months ago on an 8 year old thread shilling for some company. Of course, they were all upvoted to the top of the thread. I even had a notification of someone just commenting "lol" on an offhand comment I made about Firefly in 2011. As if that needed to be said.
duskwuff 3y ago
If you were doing this during the protests, comments on closed (protesting) subreddits were hidden from users' profiles until the sub reopened.

callalex 3y ago

This seems very illegal in some places.

calfuris 3y ago
I don't think that reddit is "backfilling." I don't have time to check right now, but I suspect that PowerDeleteSuite goes through your profile to find things to delete. Your profile is limited to showing 1k entries. IIRC that's the top 1k according to whatever ranking you're using, so you could get some more comments by re-running it sorting by top, controversial, etc, but if you made a lot of comments PowerDeleteSuite just won't be able to find everything.
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- nosrepa 3y ago
  Profile is 2k as it is a combination of both the 1k comment/post listings, iirc.
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- dabluecaboose 3y ago
  It may not be backfilling, but I can confirm that my user profile is not showing comments that exist elsewhere on reddit. Sorting by "controversial" does, though, show new comments that weren't on the main page. So you might be on to something.
- lotophage 3y ago
  I played with the python PRAW package to scrub old comments a while ago. Even iterating through the different sorts (new/hot/controversial/etc) I could remove everything there, but different comments would appear there after some time. My theory was Reddit ran batch jobs on some cadence (daily maybe?) to generate the topN comments lists for each users profile page. Running my script a couple of times over a several days seemed to clear everything.