• @Serinus@lemmy.ml
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    61 year ago

    They’ll just restore them. Comments from seven years ago from people who did not intentionally purge have been coming back.

    • Freeman
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      71 year ago

      This is true. I’m about to modify my script to just put in a “this person is no longer on Reddit” disclaimer instead of deleting them.

      • Ɀeus
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        11 year ago

        i don’t suppose you’d send it to me when you’re done?

        i’ve been looking for a script that adds to comments rather than overwriting them, so i can put “this user has moved to lemmy” without losing any information

        • @RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          PowerDeleteSuite might work for that, I’ve been using it for awhile to edit all and delete comments. I’ll try and see if I can edit all without deleting…

          EDIT: Yes you can edit all comments without deleting.

          Here’s the link to it: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

          EDIT again: There’s a new fork of that project that adds a 5s delay to help it work better. The original is now hampered by reddit’s bot detection stuff.

          newer fork: https://github.com/pkolyvas/PowerDeleteSuite/

          • Ɀeus
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            11 year ago

            oh nice, thank you. i could have sworn i checked reddact, shreddit and pds, but i guess not

            i think i’ll be doing this tonight

    • Botree
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      1 year ago

      I purged all of mine and since then every couple of days a few of them would magically reappearing in comment history again. I do feel bad for doing that though. I’ve found so many old gems (answers) on Reddit through Google searches that I wouldn’t have found anywhere else.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦OP
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      Mine haven’t yet. I think it depends on what you use to purge them. I used the Power Delete Suite fork by pkolyvas which adds a 5 seconds delay to comply with rate limits and so far it worked.

      EDIT: yeah I just checked again, I found like ~5 comments that were brought back. Going to do this again, fuck them.

      EDIT 2: actually many of my top comments were brought back, seems like they bring back only highly voted ones. Fuck them again.