[sebtron]

It could be worse, at least it is not 19.90€ per month

[napolux]

don't give them ideas...

19.90€/month to keep being deleted. Otherwise we will restore your account

[sen]

The Reddit method of deletion. “It’s deleted… for now”

[andrewinardeer]

I 'deleted' one of my Reddit accounts today.

Turns out is is 'deactivated' which is certainly different from deleted.

[napolux]

don't give reddit ideas.

[malfist]

I mean they literally undeleted content deleted during the third party app protest

[DaSHacka]

Do you have a source for this? I remember people talking about it being possibile for them to do (and now redact.dev even replaces old comments with randomly-generated sentences) but I don't recall them being caught actually doing it.

[NikkiA]

It's a 'misunderstanding' of how reddit works. It turns out that you can't delete comments from subreddits that are private without the required posting permission flag.

So when subreddits went 'dark' during the protest, and then people deleted their comment history, the messages on the dark subreddits came back when the protest ended and the subreddit became public again. At that point you can just delete the comments again of course, unless you deleted your account, in which case those necromanced comments stay undead forever.

[Huppie]

I can confirm it happened to me. I edited + deleted all my comments and checked my comment history before deleting my account a few days later.

A week later (after my account was deleted and inaccessible) my full comment history was restored.

Reddit's official response is that it was 'an unfortunate bug' and there's nothing they could do.

[exikyut]

Now I'm imagining mortality actually being successfully solved, and people having to pay a subscription to stay dead

:/