Deleting messages and accounts doesn’t remove them, it merely marks them as Deleted. The content is still there. If your goal is to deprive reddit of the content you created, there are free tools that edit your comments, replacing them with gibberish, before deleting them. Reddit only keeps the most recent version, so all you leave behind is random text that occupies storage.
Deleting messages and accounts doesn’t remove them, it merely marks them as Deleted. The content is still there. If your goal is to deprive reddit of the content you created, there are free tools that edit your comments, replacing them with gibberish, before deleting them. Reddit only keeps the most recent version, so all you leave behind is random text that occupies storage.
Which, if you actually take the time to read the post, they did.
I read it, apparently I didn’t digest it. Rewriting my comment.
They likely started tracking comment deltas at some point for moderation and purposes like this.
Pretty much something like a git diff for every edit.
That being said, they might just straight up store every single edit to every single comment. This wouldn’t be an absurd amount of data by any means.