Hello Lemmy!

How do you recommend dealing with your old reddit account/ posts? Should I delete my old posts or just leave them there? Or maybe replace everything with the same text?

I heard that reddit might be restoring deleted posts. Would editing the post and then deleting it or just editing it be the better alternative to just deleting it?

I’ve seen the post that recommends doing all that BEFORE the API shutdown but now it’s after so I figured maybe something had changed about the tactics?

How did you go about it?

  • @Skanky
    3•1 year ago

    Power Delete Suite, all the way

    Just go here

    Drag the button to your toolbar to create a shortcut

    Go to your profile page on Reddit

    Press the shortcut button you created on the toolbar

    Select options*

    Start deleting!

      • strongly recommend creating a “goodbye” message to edit your posts to before deleting. This makes it extremely difficult for Reddit to restore your data to what it was prior to deleting it.
    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      Seems like PDS is missing a lot of my comment (edits). Should I just keep running it or is Reddit blocking the edits?

      • @Skanky
        1•1 year ago

        Not sure. It got ever single one of mine and there were thousands.

        Keep in mind that if you edit any top of a post, some subreddits may have a bot that will reply to it if it contained anything that might trigger an automatic rule. For example, if you wanted to make your last message “Fuck /u/spez” on all your posts, the auto bot on some of the subs might disallow you from doing that. Ask me how i know 😏

        • @[email protected]
          1•1 year ago

          Yeah, I’ve just been banned from one. LOL I’m using a simple message and then gibberish. LOL

    • @Noiservoid
      1•1 year ago

      Thanks man. I was looking for this.