I might have to look more into my state’s right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I’d kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I’d purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is…disappointing.
I commented a lot on tech support subreddits and I don't want to delete my comments because other people searching for the same problem might find the solution there. I think it's more important to help people than to spite Reddit. Why am I wrong?
Because people who really need those comments can find them in a cache somewhere (such as The Wayback Machine), and while I am sure those comments are very helpful, they are probably not the only source for the information you provided. The difference deleting now makes is that Reddit can’t make more money from your work. People will still find the information, and, if they have to look further than Reddit, they might find you here.
Most of the people I help with basic tech support questions have never heard of the Wayback Machine, and odds are that people who ask themselves the same questions in the future won't have heard of it either. I feel it's petty to take back information from people who have trouble finding it kust to spite the big guy, especially since I already went to the trouble of putting it out there anyway. And it being available elsewhere, while a good thing, is not a guaranteed good thing. Forums and wikis can close or be vandalized or go through what's happening to Reddit now or any number of other things.
Known issue for older accounts with more than 1,000 posts. You should be using the Google search site:Reddit.com username to return more content to delete.
You can also do a data request on Reddit which will deliver your data on spreadsheets.
I never had my deletions reversed. The only thing that did happen is when subreddits restored, I had to delete that content too.
The way listings work on reddit is very confusing to most users. I used to think that listings refilled once you removed things from them, but they don’t. If you have more than 1000 posts, comments, or whatever, you won’t ever see the 1001st thing.
Meaning that posts aren’t actually removed, just set to deleted in the database. Also means that they don’t use that deleted flag in the database query, instead filtering out the deleted posts after they have been retrieved, which in my mind would be a less efficient way to do it.
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