Shredding up my Reddit comments (editing them to say fuck spez, linking to Lemmy and Kbin, not deleting but I don’t care if they do end up deleted) and I got this.
I also got several hilarious AutoMod replies from different protesting subs. r/ProgrammerHumor requires a code block with an import statement before every comment, and r/shitposting has completely banned the letter B.
On a laptop you can sort your comments by “top” and manually delete. Those are the highest visibility anyway.
You can also do this if you request “desktop site” on a mobile browser.
Older comments (1 year+), if you delete will simply re-appear. Then I tried editing old comments yesterday (using public domain filler text), but overnight my comments have been “restored”. Newer stuff you can certainly do this to.
Someone said it’s the caching or refreshing. Check again in a bit and let us know.
I checked it. They’re still reset to the old data. My edits meant nothing.
I believe only your most recent 1000 comments show up tied to your profile, so you cannot delete any but those. Deleting #1 doesn’t bump #1001 into slot #1000
The lists are a bit different for controversial/top/hot, which is why the deletion tools all check all three.
Older comments will still exist and be search-indexable, editable, and deletable, but you’ll have to find them… manually. I guess with 3P search engines? A nightmare.
Meaning Reddit is in violation of municipalities that have data deletion rules, but so far no one seems to care.