It looks like they’re undeleting posts which means you won’t be able to go back and delete them again if your account is gone. I checked today and about 30% of my deleted posts were back.

Reddit will profit off your past content if it stays up in its current form. As an alternative to deleting, I’ve seen people suggesting editing your old text posts to be gibberish so that it will screw with the AI models that scour Reddit.

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    It looks like people’s comments are coming back because they didn’t get deleted. From discussion in other threads and on HN, it looks like the comment deletion scripts can’t delete comments from subreddits while they are privated.

    If you tried deleting comments during the blackout and then some of those unprivated, you would expect to see those comments again.

    There is a lot to be upset with Reddit about, but this doesn’t seem to be one of them. (at least based on what I’ve seen)

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      I had some posts and comments come back twice already. They definitely were gone. I used redact. This morning I deleted 2 posts manually and they were back within 2 hours. I wouldn’t write Reddit off here. I’ll keep my account and will be watching this a little longer.

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          On stuff coming back? I just checked and I had one old comment pop back up. So wild. Seems quite random

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            Some people say it’s how the servers refresh or something when a bot is used. Just cross curious.

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    That’s gotta be a GDPR issue if you’re in the EU, right? I know California has some privacy laws along those lines too?