Is there a bulk Reddit edit tool that DOESN'T overwrite all comments? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by pory@lemmy.world to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Since Reddit is restoring comments from deleted accounts, even if they were overwritten by a script instead of deleted, I was wondering if there were a tool similar to PowerDeleteSuite that allowed not deleting the original content of the comment.

For example, say I left a comment that said:

Great job with this!

I'd love an extension that would leave that as:

Consider leaving Reddit for Lemmy or kbin. Edit added 6/23/2023. Great job with this!

and do that to all of my prior comments on the site. I doubt that'd be rolled back by the admins the way that deleted comments and obvious script-edited comments are and also turns any comments I've left as tech support (that people might find via google searches) into an ad to migrate to a federated alternative.

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[-] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

None that I'm aware of, but it'd be really easy to modify https://github.com/luphoria/reddit-migration (which I mentioned in https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59451/Finally-Managed-to-erase-all-1477-of-my-comments ) to do it.

Here's a patch to the above with an untested change that should do what you want: https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/83479/no-overwrite-patch

I fear you are giving too much credit to reddit though - 100% they won't care about the difference. If it nets them more money they will 100% undo the edit and leave only the original content there.

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