That’s not entirely true. I edited and removed all my comments with nuke reddit during the API fiasco. Then I demanded my data every month until they started ignoring me - just to be annoying, of course. But I did get it and it had every comment, vote, etc.
The account info they have is, sadly, thorough. However I did successfully bork about 30% of my comments. Better than nothing.
Would it not have been smarter to subtly alter them, in order to not trigger database rollbacks? Plenty of ways to ruin intelligibility with minor changes.
When I requested my data a solid 30% of my comments had been successfully torched. Also, I highly doubt Reddit is going to do a full rollback based on my removal of my comment/post history. It also assumes that they are competent about their backups, which my professional career has taught me is never a given no matter how big the company or how big of aproblem it would be.
That’s not entirely true. I edited and removed all my comments with nuke reddit during the API fiasco. Then I demanded my data every month until they started ignoring me - just to be annoying, of course. But I did get it and it had every comment, vote, etc.
The account info they have is, sadly, thorough. However I did successfully bork about 30% of my comments. Better than nothing.
Would it not have been smarter to subtly alter them, in order to not trigger database rollbacks? Plenty of ways to ruin intelligibility with minor changes.
When I requested my data a solid 30% of my comments had been successfully torched. Also, I highly doubt Reddit is going to do a full rollback based on my removal of my comment/post history. It also assumes that they are competent about their backups, which my professional career has taught me is never a given no matter how big the company or how big of aproblem it would be.