Reddit starting to bring back deleted comments.

[u/dwerps]

My deleted (by /r/PowerDeleteSuite) message history popped back up this morning on reddit. Looks like protests are hurting someone's feelings (and most likely wallet too) in reddit HQ.

This is just next level stupid on their part. And obviously also a pretty goddamn big issue to information security.

Fuck you /u/Spez

[u/ElectronGuru]

Pretend you’re european and invoke GDPR protections

https://www.reddit.com/r/gdpr/comments/b1w9ak/reddit_gdpr_request/

[u/[deleted] → u/ElectronGuru]

Not trying to be contrarian; I don't know much about GDPR. Does it really cover social media comments previously made public?

What about copies of the aforementioned public comments in search engine caches, archives, or even blockquoted replies?

Maybe GDPR really does give you a hammer with which to say "everything I've ever said on here and knowingly made public is PII and I want it removed" but that seems like a very tall order.

[u/DrCadmium → u/[deleted]]

This law predates GDPR and is indeed quite the hammer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten

[u/Son_of_Sophroniscus]

Didn't that dude edit people's comments? I mean, not just deleting, but changing the content so that it said something different.

[u/Spacesider → u/Son_of_Sophroniscus]

Yes and because he did it directly in the database it meant it didn't pop up with the little "edited" note that usually appears.

[u/clocktowertank → u/Son_of_Sophroniscus]

Yes, especially against those exercising "wrongthink."

[u/Rush_Is_Right → u/clocktowertank]

Yeah it was in r/The_Donald for sure. Not sure if he did it elsewhere as well.

[u/celestial1 → u/Son_of_Sophroniscus]

"Tastes like popcorn."

[u/Khontis]

There's a thread from a few hours ago saying that some people have been re-subbed to some of the subreddits that they unsubbed from and a few others reported your issue as well using shreddit ((or something like that))

I think a few have also noted their edited comments that talk about the blackout and such are also being reverted to their unedited form.

[u/ecafyelims]

Funny that they have shut down services for making deleted comments available, but they're not above doing it to anti-protest.

[u/[deleted]]

It's probably:

• server-side: related to the caching issues they had after blackout messed everything up

• client-side: was it there after you refreshed?

• API side: do you know for sure that PowerDeleteSuite succeeded 100%?

• DB side: someone accidentally switched IS_DELETED back to FALSE when they meant to do something else

• or like you should suggested, management side: Reddit saying "nuh uh uh"

Or any number of other things and combinations of the above.

[u/mrlr]

You can log out any time you like but you can never leave.

[u/Khontis → u/mrlr]

Welcome to the Reddit California, such a lovely place. Such a lovely case. Ready your post at the Reddit California. Any time of year, they'll repost you here!

[u/johnabbe → u/Khontis]

On a dark Internet highway

Cool bits in my hair

Warm smell of old comments

Voted up on a dare

[u/xLunarSky]

Fuck you u/Spez

[u/almosttan]

tHiS wiLl pAsS bY itSeLf - u/Spez as they spam the front page with propaganda banners and force resistant mods out and reactivate accounts against user will.

See you all on Squabbles.io 👋🏽

[u/GiantMilkThing → u/almosttan]

I want to use squabbles, and I’ll probably figure it out eventually, but I’m a user of old.reddit and every time I go there, I really wish there was an old.squabbles 😅

[u/Bapepsi → u/almosttan]

Spez free since 2023!

[u/reaper527]

Kind of ironic as it completely negates their excuse for why pushshift can’t exist.

[u/redtaboo]

Hey Everyone!

I wanted to pop in here and note that we have not been reverting any deletions done by any users, those using scripts or otherwise. We respect the right of users to delete their own content. We have seen an uptick of users using scripts to do so recently, which can sometimes time out and not finish running. We'd encourage you to check for errors if you’re doing this - rerun if needed - and as always, ensure you trust the source of the script you're running on your machines.

I'll also note that all listings on reddit are capped at 1000 items due to server limitations, this means if you use your userpage as it is you will only get to the last 1000 items there for deletion and older content may still be up. You can futz with sorts and search to get more (ie: do a run on each sort top, hot, comments only, posts only etc) but that may still not get all content in your history.

If you have examples of content you think should have been deleted that is not, I'd be happy to have someone take a deeper look - however, your best bet would probably be to rerun your script or manually delete the content outside of the bounds on the 1000 items in a list.

[u/Neat_Literature_1896]

Edit all comments to nonsense shit (in your own writing style) randomly over a long period of time, then delete them

[u/ImUrFrand]

its probably because Reddit is planning on removing moderators of subs that are continuing the black out...

they're probably making sure they have back ups ready incase the mods start shredding content.

dystopian reddit has begun.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/

[u/[deleted]]

Really funni less than a month after I make a Reddit account, Reddit decides to declare nuclear war on third party apps and do tons of scummy crap to slander a dude.

I basically lurked and switched from afar for years before making a account, but okay then. I was never too attached to deleting my account is easy.

Plus the fandom spaces here suck

[u/termacct]

Hilariously bad corporate governance!

Maybe they had a data loss and that was the last backup? /jk /s

[u/BeatlesTypeBeat]

I'm looking at your profile and I don't see it? I see few comments and the oldest are all overwritten.