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This doesn't work: Anyone have experience with deleting comments to see older comments in your profile on Reddit? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by abff08f4813c@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Edit: confirmed with someone in the PSA thread that this doesn't work. See https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than#entry-comment-200913

Original post below:

I'm having the same problem as the commenter here: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/41129/Just-started-the-process-of-editing-all-of-my-Reddit#entry-comment-180921

In my case I can see my comment history much further, but still about six months short of when I created my reddit account.

My post history seems go to back to my very first post, but I have a lot fewer of those.

For now I just edited my comments, but I'm wondering if I should also do a delete. If I delete say 400 of my newest comments, will I see 400 more older comments show up in my profile? And if so, how long will it take to refresh?

I'm willing to experiment and try and find out for myself, but was just curious if others had already experienced this.

(Of course, if it actually doesn't help - deleting new comments won't bring back the older history for me to backup and edit and delete - then I'd rather not delete anything at all and just leave my farewell message everywhere.)

I adapted this script to do what I needed, including printing out a count of comments found, as well as the permalink of each comment (so I could double check the date).

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts

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[–] megane_kun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From my own experience, the comments (and posts) that have resurfaced are from those subreddits that have stayed in blackout, but are open at the time I checked.

Thus, and though this is me talking in hindsight, I've made a (bash) script that would execute Shreddit three times a day (via cron). I eventually would resort to manual deletion after June 29, but until then, I can rest easy that whatever resurfaces would get shredded.

Just to be sure though, I open Reddit on an incognito window (or even a separate browser I never used Rəddit on) and check things myself, usually by opening my profile page(s) and seeing if there's still any comments/posts left.

[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This is my plan as well, I think there's just one major sub left where I need to delete and they're going public (at least for a short time) next week. So I'll keep running.