I used redact.dev I wasn't interested in a backup but I believe that's an option.
I just used redact.dev to overwrite and delete 13 years worth of comments. I also manually deleted all of my posts. Kinda hurt me to do it but I think it's the right thing to do.
I feel the same... but now that it's done.... I'm okay with saying goodbye.
I got banned from r/news and talked down to by some mod shortly after editing all of my posts. The reason for the ban was protest bot. That took away any hard feelings I had about leaving reddit.
Is /news run by reddit admins or something? like what the heck?
I thought it might be an admin or a mod who really sides with them.
Hey, I just wanted to add that you'll always be a hero in my book! Thank you for taking a stand!
Use PowerDeleteSuite you can backup before delete and also overwrite with alternate text.
That's what I went with originally. However, even after using the versions that include the delay, the CSV file that I download from Chrome seems to be oddly truncated - it stops in the middle of the text of my comment (not even filling out the rest of the fields to make that line a valid CSV line.
Has anyone else seen this? Could it just be an issue with the chrome browser not being able to dump the full data contents? (I have no images or videos or anything it's all just text).
Same here, the powerdelete csv file was truncated and is not a reliable export. I requested a full export from Reddit a while ago, never got an answer or export file and now I don't really care about old comments, I would just prefer to have everything deleted.
I had a similar issue. It only saved partial text of like 12 posts/comments. I chose the delete option too, so it's basically all gone.
For the time being I've manually saved and edited my posts. There's one major sub, Animorphs, that I'm waiting for to go public so I can grab and remove those posts, then I'm deleting the account for good.
Still trying to work out what to do about the comments. Someone posted a different script for that, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/16226/Wrote-a-script-to-edit-all-my-posts so I might try editting this to skip my one post/comment and see if that works well. But still open if others have other good solutions.
I ran a modified version of that script and it worked. AFAICT all my comments got edited out.
Alas, my comment history stopped at 869, which was mid May 2018. I checked from the website and that comment shows up as my first comment under the comments tab, which I know is wrong because I have older comments I made in some of my posts. My account is from Dec 2017.
Next, I'm going to re-run this script having delete most of my comments (except the handful I want to keep up to let folks know what's going on). Hopefully this will do the job and the older comments will start showing up.
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