I don’t know if Reddit is just trying to be a dick or what, but as I started to delete some comments, I’m not able to see any comments in my profile “hasn’t commented on anything”, but if I visit actual posts where I’ve commented, I can clearly see my comments there.
Does anyone know what’s going on? Not even Redact or Power Delete Suite can see those comments, either :/
This is a known problem: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/47320/PSA-If-you-have-more-than-1000-posts-more-than
Also, you won’t be able to delete anything in private subreddits.
Ask Reddit for your data. Until then, this might still work: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/59451/Finally-Managed-to-erase-all-1477-of-my-comments#comments
and after you get your GDPR files from Reddit, you can do this: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/164034/Automated-ways-of-removing-reddit-content
TL;DR: you’ll need the permalinks for older comments if you want to delete them using a script. Otherwise, you’ll have to google them and manually delete everything.
Also, if anyone’s wondering, the format for an extracted comments.csv from the GDPR files you’ll get from reddit is just a flat text file. The first line is (explicitly)
id,permalink,date,ip,subreddit,gildings,link,parent,body,media
and every entry that follows is the id, permalink, etc. so it might be possible to dummy up a comments.csv file by extracting stuff from an archive (as described in the second link above) and use the shreddit program from the third link if you wanted to delete things while waiting for Reddit to fulfill your data request.
Well, shit. Thank you for the explanation. Sounds like Reddit is actually being a dick! I’ll figure this out one way or another.