Google searching. How do you see your oldest comments in your own profile? Mine just disappear after the 2 month mark or so. There is nothing. But if I look under saved posts for example, there are old comments still hanging there. I specified to edit everything- gilded, saved, everything
old.reddit allows you to go further back than that. IIRC there’s a setting about how many links to show, that by default is 25 but you can also choose 100. After that, you go to your comments and manually go back and that should allow you to view much older comments.
So you just search “your username + reddit”? I’d like to check if any comments were left untouched!
reddit limits your profile menus (New, Top, Hot & Controversial) to 1,000 comments each. If you have older comments that aren’t popular nor controversial, then these won’t appear on your profile. In particular, if you have an old Top comment, you might find it deleted but low but positive karma replies left in.
You need to do a GDPR request and feed that into shreddit (the github version, the website charges for the feature). Alternatively, you can get the Pushshift backup of all of reddit from 2022 and run a script to filter out your comments, then feed that into another script. However, shreddit uses the API, so time is limited for that option, and I’ve also found it panics a lot so you have to keep cutting out the comments and running it again.
Hopefully someone will make a new version that works post 1 July.
The PowerDeleteSuit fork I used had no problems editing 2y old comments. I did a websearch for my username and chose a custom time for the results, which I set to between one day before I created my account and two weeks later. The oldest comment I found by doing so is from ten days after I created my account, and it is edited like I instructed the script to do. Wasn’t a popular comment either, with just 3 upvotes. I think I’m in the clear!
I just tried it for myself, it only made 63 requests to delete 12 comments. These were in my profile, they’re ones that have reappeared after being deleted previously.
Meanwhile, if I look in my GDPR files up to where I’ve got so far with shreddit, the comments are still there, completely untouched.
Maybe you don’t have too many comments, so you’re within the 1,000 comment limit across your different lists? It’s impossible to be sure without having the direct links, either from a GDPR request or the Pushshift backup.
Google searching. How do you see your oldest comments in your own profile? Mine just disappear after the 2 month mark or so. There is nothing. But if I look under saved posts for example, there are old comments still hanging there. I specified to edit everything- gilded, saved, everything
old.reddit allows you to go further back than that. IIRC there’s a setting about how many links to show, that by default is 25 but you can also choose 100. After that, you go to your comments and manually go back and that should allow you to view much older comments.
So you just search “your username + reddit”? I’d like to check if any comments were left untouched!
reddit limits your profile menus (New, Top, Hot & Controversial) to 1,000 comments each. If you have older comments that aren’t popular nor controversial, then these won’t appear on your profile. In particular, if you have an old Top comment, you might find it deleted but low but positive karma replies left in.
You need to do a GDPR request and feed that into shreddit (the github version, the website charges for the feature). Alternatively, you can get the Pushshift backup of all of reddit from 2022 and run a script to filter out your comments, then feed that into another script. However, shreddit uses the API, so time is limited for that option, and I’ve also found it panics a lot so you have to keep cutting out the comments and running it again.
Hopefully someone will make a new version that works post 1 July.
The PowerDeleteSuit fork I used had no problems editing 2y old comments. I did a websearch for my username and chose a custom time for the results, which I set to between one day before I created my account and two weeks later. The oldest comment I found by doing so is from ten days after I created my account, and it is edited like I instructed the script to do. Wasn’t a popular comment either, with just 3 upvotes. I think I’m in the clear!
Could you point me in the direction of your fork version please?
Sure, sorry for not linking it earlier. I used this
https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite
I just tried it for myself, it only made 63 requests to delete 12 comments. These were in my profile, they’re ones that have reappeared after being deleted previously.
Meanwhile, if I look in my GDPR files up to where I’ve got so far with shreddit, the comments are still there, completely untouched.
Maybe you don’t have too many comments, so you’re within the 1,000 comment limit across your different lists? It’s impossible to be sure without having the direct links, either from a GDPR request or the Pushshift backup.
No idea, to be honest! Could it be because I only edited my comments?
I doubt it, they’re still looking at the same comment lists.
You could always do a GDPR or CCPA request anyway. Then you should be able to check, even if it comes through after 1 July.