I have been increasingly having to re-run my purge scripts across multiple accounts, despite not being on reddit for a few weeks now. The longer i wait between logging in and purging comments, the more appear.
And they do appear quasi-random, as if they page/comments get restored when another user pulls/visits an older page.
How does this even square with privacy regulations anyhow. If a user wants to delete their comments, forcibly restoring them against their will is, at best, unseemly.
Yeah. wouldnt be shocked. Interesting part is they used to say they only kept a history of 1 edit. So overwriting your comments then saving and deleting was a sure way to purge your history.
My scripts do just that with javascript. But still the whole comment is restored. No way thats a bug to me.
Yeah, places that have “right to be forgotten” laws should be monitoring and logging proof of examples over a period of time where deleted comments and posts are restored.