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Reddit keeps undeleting my account and posts. Is there anything I can do as an American Citizen? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by Rick@lemmy.world to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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This is pissing me off to no end. I went on reddit and signed in out of habbit as I have a couple times already and before my account was gone and it wouldnt let me sign in.

Now I did it again and realized that my account actually was undeleted and allowed me to login AND all the posts that I overwrited and deleted with Power Delete Suite where back. I am so pissed right now.

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[-] earthling@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

I think people may need to wait. Here's what I've read and seen myself so far:

You can only edit/delete so many comments as it seems reddit only indexes the last 1000. After editing/deleting everything you can, you can see you still have unedited/undeleted comments by searching your username like: site:reddit.com "usernameHere". I saw plenty of comments going back years (I have a 14yr old account) that I wasn't able to touch.

The strategy seems to be to be requesting your data from reddit and then use the comment ids contained in that export to target them for edits/deletes via the API, assuming it's still usable for small scripts like the ones we want to use.

We're tracking our requested/received dates in this thread if you're interested in adding yours to the list.

[-] dismalnow@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

@earthling

@Rick

The lack of indexing and privacy status of the subs likely contributes - but it's also API rate limiting for many of the automated tools like Power Delete Suite.

It will appear that your comments are gone, but the limiter prevents activity from being permanently written over X calls per minute.

[-] earthling@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I'm using PRAW/python and app credentials I made just for me and PRAW seems to have some good rate limit logic built in.

I also tried Power Delete Suite which seemed to work very quickly and that caused me to worry that I was running afoul of rate limits. My own python script utilizing PRAW works much more slowly but IMO that's a good thing.

I'm hoping that once I have a nice list of comment ids I can hit them all via my script/PRAW, however long it takes.

[-] dismalnow@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

@earthling

@Rick

j0be, the dev for PDS, was informed about the rate limit issue ~2 years ago. I think they recently updated the script to open the discussion page on reddit about it, but there is no limit logic currently.

My personal experience is that using PDS requires multiple attempts - however, the tool is working until it surpasses the call limit.

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