I clicked a link that brought me to reddit yesterday, and you know ehat i noticed on the 5 month old thread? A bunch of deleted user names but the comments and info shared was still there under deleted
The way reddit has always worked is that if you delete your user account your comments become anonymous. To delete your post history you have to delete all your comments before deleting your account. And beyond that, you should edit your comments, then delete them, then delete your account.
The stated reason for this is so if someone delete their account, any useful information they may have provided (answers to questions, for example) doesn’t get lost as well. Otherwise deleting your account makes the old information useless, which hurts those looking for answers.
I clicked a link that brought me to reddit yesterday, and you know ehat i noticed on the 5 month old thread? A bunch of deleted user names but the comments and info shared was still there under deleted
They deleted their account without deleting the comment. It has always been this way in my experience.
This is illegal, at least under the GDPR, so Reddit could be sued about that.
Disclaimer: I’m no lawyer, so this is no legal advice and I could be wrong.
My understanding is that it is only illegal if the information is personally identifiable… and posting such was against the rules anyway.
It still pisses me off that they decided to rate limit comment edits/deletes just as everyone was making the exodus.
The way reddit has always worked is that if you delete your user account your comments become anonymous. To delete your post history you have to delete all your comments before deleting your account. And beyond that, you should edit your comments, then delete them, then delete your account.
The stated reason for this is so if someone delete their account, any useful information they may have provided (answers to questions, for example) doesn’t get lost as well. Otherwise deleting your account makes the old information useless, which hurts those looking for answers.