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vowelless · 2014-01-11 23:19:45

You can't delete old comments and submissions

sp332 | karma 55607 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2017-01-19 18:20:21

You can't delete comments that have been replied to.

layer8 | karma 23301 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2023-01-30 17:43:11

You can’t delete anymore once there are comments, I believe.

sp332 | karma 55607 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2018-08-17 16:58:18

You can't delete comments that have been replied to though.

the_duke | karma 16666 | avg karma 6.89 · | 2020-08-27 11:20:43+00:00

You can't delete comments once they have responses.

ChuckMcM | karma 107741 | avg karma 5.96 · | 2020-06-24 02:15:22

Odd you used to be able to delete comments.

hgsgm | karma 1743 | avg karma 0.72 · | 2023-02-10 07:14:56

You can use alts and delete old comments.

roflyear | karma 1861 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2023-01-24 22:58:37

Lots of stuff isn't. They don't let you delete your account or delete old comments.

rocky1138 | karma 7524 | avg karma 3.47 · | 2017-02-11 15:53:26+00:00

You can delete comments but only up until a certain amount of time has passed, I think. I've been able to do it.

mlrtime | karma 2079 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2024-04-02 12:01:27

I'm late to the discussion here, but I use shreddit. It edits and deletes all my past comments.

However I found recently there are websites that have every single one of my old comments accessible and I'm sure reddit itself does to. Once you comment it's there forever.

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cwan | karma 45871 | avg karma 6.12 · | 2010-01-14 08:04:03+00:00

If your submission/comment is older than 2 hours old, your ability to delete it expires. I'm also pretty sure you can't delete your account so that your comments that you don't delete within 2 hours or that admins don't delete remain on the record.

j_s | karma 6986 | avg karma 2.22 · | 2017-09-12 10:59:22

I believe comments can't be deleted after they've been replied to.

ItsMe000001 | karma 1190 | avg karma 2.99 · | 2018-06-02 08:41:20+00:00

> And I can delete them all.

How? I can only delete for a small amount of time after posting. I cannot delete any of my past comments. If there is an option to remove old(er) comments I would sure like to know about it, seems to be hidden pretty well.

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wicked | karma 15 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2007-02-21 15:53:29

Possibility to delete comments and submissions.

amelius | karma 42902 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2022-07-20 05:55:56

Ok. But now I can't delete my comment :(

asdff | karma 12593 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2023-06-09 15:28:41

All your comments are probably crawled anyhow. You can't delete anything from the internet.

pretext-1 | karma 205 | avg karma 2.77 · | 2023-06-12 12:52:15

Don’t know if this is still the case but back when Reddit was open source they would keep the comment in the database on deletion, but using the edit feature you could actually remove the content from the db.

thinkingemote | karma 7909 | avg karma 3.27 · | 2021-07-13 05:52:01

theres a limit for time (6 months?) for these via the website, and via the API theres a limit of 2000 or so latest comments, with no way to get the list of latest comments re-populated from older ones when your comments do get deleted. (They basically have a cassandra db for all the latest stuff, and an read only db for the old stuff. So the live db never gets updated from the old db.)

What this means is that your a lot of old comments and submissions are unable to be deleted.

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Viliam1234 | karma 2407 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2022-02-28 07:29:10

Cool, I didn't even know comments could be deleted! I appreciate your reaction.

colejohnson66 | karma 9319 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2018-10-27 23:02:30

You can’t delete comments once there’s a reply