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Now this is taking the piss

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

When I was overwriting all my posts with the Power delete suite script, i got many error 503 errors

Btw, as it's written in the fine print, if you delete your reddit account, all your posts and comments aren't deleted and they will keep them forever with no option to delete them anymore

Need to overwrite before deleting

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you overwrite before deleting, I would assume reddit will keep the original message.

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

Yes but they can't use it or show

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't think that is compatible with GDPR, or?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GDPR is wrapped around personal information specifically related to identifying someone. Well it's possible to have posts that can demanded to be taken down by GDPR the vast majority of the stuff on Reddit is not applicable.

There's a post on this link specifically talking about the part of the legal code that considers this

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/28276/are-internet-forum-posts-considered-personal-data-under-gdpr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see, unfortunate

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

I did it not even half an hour ago and didn't get any errors. I have only my main account left. One last account before I leave for good. I'm also new to that script/tool so maybe I made a mistake? But then again it's pretty straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can that script overwrite comments or posts older than the last 1000?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes. I used it to purge my history. 13 years worth of comments and posts gone in a few minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks like, at the end the counter said it overwrote 3500 comments