I just got this email from Reddit, and I just realized it’s been a year now since I swapped over here, and I haven’t thought about awards once. I always thought they were gimmicky and a way for people to throw away money. It’s just really nice not worrying about them.
(I also have participated more in BuyMeACoffee and Patreon over here now, and I think my money is better spent that way)
Also, what is with that exponential scale, so screw you if you’re a big time user apparently? And the expiration? The whole thing has corpo stink on it
Do a “site:reddit.com your username” search & you’ll find that all your comments are still there.
Yep, they are. But they’re not on Reddit, just what Google scraped and indexed. Clicking one of those results (to a post I’ve since deleted) throws an error page on Reddit. Clicking on a result to where I’ve commented still shows the edit I made on my way out:
I’m under no illusion I’ve totally scrubbed my submissions from the internet; that was never the goal. I just didn’t want Reddit to have them anymore, and best I can tell, that was successful.
If you haven’t deleted your account, you can go to the Reddit app, search, “youruser -Deleted”, click on Messages, and it will show you all the lingering ones.
I had to run the shredder script with a couple GDPR exports until it stuck.