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If you're overwriting your comments on Reddit:
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I understand the protests but why are people deleting their comment history? Can't you just delete your account?
Deleting your account doesn't impact all the content you generated, meaning Reddit can still profit off of it.
This, and also it's far harder for them to revert if they decided too much of their content had been deleted by protesting users. Overwriting the content means it remains a persistent issue well into the future, rather than something they can easily ignore or undo.
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Your code is buggy bro
If you just delete your account your comments are still there and it'll say [deleted] instead of your user name.
I'm not fully aware and up-to-date, but I've seen a few posts suggesting that Reddit is keeping your data on their servers, a few users have said some of their stuff got undeleted.
Yes, they keep the comment history forever. The idea is that as long as content is not publicly visible nobody will find it via Google and visit Reddit to be exposed to their ads.