Reddit is actively restoring deleted comments and posts. Deleting your account won’t make any useful difference. Instead:
- Keep the account around but use some tool to delete all comments and posts everyday. I use Redact app on Android but there’re many others. Reddit would not be restoring comments and posts if they are not useful to them. By keeping your profile and keep deleting everything, you are denying Reddit any chance from making use of your data.
- Monitor when subreddit opens poll for re-opening and vote the “best” option.
Automate it with Power Delete Suite (one of the forks that respects Reddit’s “5-second between edits” limit.)
I did four passes to ensure it was all REALLY overwritten since we don’t have visibility into their retention. So far my overwritten posts are staying ovewritten.
- So long, and thanks for all the fish!