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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They'll just restore them. Comments from seven years ago from people who did not intentionally purge have been coming back.

[–] AlmightySnoo 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mine haven't yet. I think it depends on what you use to purge them. I used the Power Delete Suite fork by pkolyvas which adds a 5 seconds delay to comply with rate limits and so far it worked.

EDIT: yeah I just checked again, I found like ~5 comments that were brought back. Going to do this again, fuck them.

EDIT 2: actually many of my top comments were brought back, seems like they bring back only highly voted ones. Fuck them again.

[–] Botree 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I purged all of mine and since then every couple of days a few of them would magically reappear in my comment history again. I do feel bad for doing that though. I've found so many old gems (answers) on Reddit through Google searches that I wouldn't have found anywhere else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is true. I’m about to modify my script to just put in a “this person is no longer on Reddit” disclaimer instead of deleting them.

[–] Zeus 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i don't suppose you'd send it to me when you're done?

i've been looking for a script that adds to comments rather than overwriting them, so i can put "this user has moved to lemmy" without losing any information

[–] RaoulDook 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

PowerDeleteSuite might work for that, I've been using it for awhile to edit all and delete comments. I'll try and see if I can edit all without deleting....

EDIT: Yes you can edit all comments without deleting.

Here's the link to it: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

EDIT again: There's a new fork of that project that adds a 5s delay to help it work better. The original is now hampered by reddit's bot detection stuff.

newer fork: https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite/

[–] Zeus 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh nice, thank you. i could have sworn i checked reddact, shreddit and pds, but i guess not

i think i'll be doing this tonight


edit; i may be dumb, but i can't figure out how to do this. for clarity, what i'm hoping to have is:

original comment text, something witty but too helpful/productive to permanently delete


due to recent actions by reddit, this user has moved to lеmmy. come join me at join-lemmy(dot)org, or try кbin, squаbbles, or tildеs

pds can edit comments on mass, but only by overwriting; not adding to