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by pkulak 1109 days ago
Keeping a history is far more work (and cost!) than maintaining a deleted flag. I'm inclined to believe they don't keep a history.
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That’s my assumption too, keeping a history for every user increases complexity tenfold, while flagging deleted comments seems to be a common practice even in smaller companies because it’s so simple.

Another user said they tried the data dump GDPR request and the comments included deleted comments but only the edited version, so I guess this can be verified at least.

Actually being able to show history of edits would be a nice feature tbh.