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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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[–] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just ran a delete run and got 108 comments deleted. So far no older comments are reappearing but I'll check in periodically to see if they come back.

Edit: doing another run, after realizing the script was using comments.new() but i was seeing some older ones in comments.controversial() - so now trying that to see if i get everything.

Edit2: after that I had to load each post and manually proof it, I found a lot more of my comments unedited and manually edited each one. (For new() I didn't have to do, I double-checked the last couple and it seems every comment I made on the post was edited on the relevant post). But then I ran with hot() and top() and found even more comments. Finally, I followed the advice that someone else on this magazine suggested, and used google to search for my own username on reddit, and found even more comments to manually delete!

I'm really not feeling confident that I got it all.

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

So I had 2 new comments from hot and 367 new comments from top.

Now reviewing the posts for the last 100 of these. Some posts will have a top comment from me (just 2 points!) and then I'll find more posts with just 1 point that got missed and have to manually clear those out.

Definitely this did not get everything. There must be some posts where I added only one or two comments and never got upvoted or downvoted, thus they wouldn't show up in any of the lists. And search engines aren't turning up all of these comments either (I found that only the search engine reported, but I'm finding a lot of my comments on these posts which only had one of mine upvoted or downvoted).

On the plus side, this meant that downvotes helped me find content I otherwise would have missed. Downvoting is helpful! Who knew?