I used the Power Delete Suite fork by pkolyvas and it worked and my comments were redacted/deleted correctly for over a week.
Today I checked my account and sorted my comments by “Top” and to my surprise I see that many of my top rated comments have been forcibly brought back by Reddit. The curious thing is that it’s only top comments on technical subs like r/MachineLearning that were restored, they must have realized that being in the Google search results for technical questions is critical for them.
Is it because they detect “bot activity” and they simply revert it? Has anyone had success with doing that manually or semi-manually?
Thanks!
Remember this is a business issue for Reddit- by removing your content, you are making their database less valuable. You should assume the edit and delete system is actively hostile to this sort of activity.
To that end, I don’t suggest deleting at all. Deleting a lot of comments is a big red flag. As is any kind of automated activity like doing one every 5 seconds.
I would also suggest, if you want to devalue the database as quickly as possible, don’t bother doing all of your comments. Do the ones that are most popular. And don’t delete them, edit them. Whatever edits you put in should be coherent sentences so a spelling and grammar check would not flag them. And don’t do one every 5 seconds, do one every 5 minutes.