Googling my username I discovered i was quoted in a PCgamer article. Nice of em to let me know...I guess?
Sadly those impertinent moochers never ever ask for permission or bother to even tell the people they stole content from. I only ever realized that it happened when regular reddittors congratulated me for being featured on websites that I didn't even know existed.
It happened so often with my submissions that I eventually even openly told all so-called "gaming journalists" to f[$%&] off in my user profile as a preemptive measure.
Can confirm: I've spent a week manually deleting everything I could until I got the "this user hasn't posted anything" message two days in a row, but shreddit found 981 (not a typo!) more comments to delete that reddit chose to not show me for whatever reason. And there are STILL a couple of comments I am able to google, but I am no longer able to delete them as I nuked the account in the meantime.
Filed a GDPR "right to erasure" request for mine - but I don't doubt that I'll be going to the ICO in 28 days because Spez has failed yet again.
Thanks for the thread, gave me a couple more tools to pursue...!
I wiped what I could with tools then manually purged all my top ranking stuff that was older. Did some Google searches and found tons of it ranking #1 that now goes to a deleted post. lol
I used Power Delete Suite on mine. Whatever that wiped is gone.
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