MRW I realized that not only does Reddit keep posts and comments active even after a sitewide ban, several of mine are still the top on quite a few subs

They want your content to make their site worth visiting, they just don't want you

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philpo@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Claim that you live within the EU now and demand fully deletion of your account. Problem solved thanks to the gdpr

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Does that get rid of the comment history?

philpo@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y

They legally have to delete basically all content you provided unless they want to filter it manually and are open to legislation

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

you can use powersuite, delete to change or delete your comments. reddit doesnt delete comments, if you deleted your account in most cases, unless you get shadowbanned.

psud@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y

It deletes your name from the content

Doom@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Edit them

Crankenstein@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Can't. Perma bans prevent you from editing your comments. You cannot interact with the site at all outside of scrolling.

BingoBongo1942@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

It's perfect, Reddit gets to ban you and doom you to infinitely scrolling the site, while simultaneously milking engagement from your old posts!

Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y (7 replies)
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mmddmm@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Well, the OP didn't know.

And since it's banning people from posting new content, it would make sense to delete the old content too. Well, not on reddit devs minds, but it would be a perfectly coherent idea.

Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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dil@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

A ban is usually for a reason related to content so they typically remove all content? At least outside of reddit.

Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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dil@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

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mmddmm@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

I dunno. A shadow-ban normally is retroactive, but I actually don't know the policy on plain bans from most places. I know that here it would be a huge technical challenge to delete everything a user created, but lemmy is very different from most platforms.

HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I do not believe reddit ever claimed not to.

Encountering enough u/deleted with [removed by reddit] would certainly lead people to believe that they are definitely capable of removing any trace of a user from the site

Just from a basic technical perspective it seems like it would be pretty easy to delete everything from any one particular originator

Doesn't even seem to be a particularly difficult thing to do in general

Not entirely sure why theat seems so odd

What did I expect?

If a user did something so egregious that a sitewide ban for cause is warranted then it makes perfect sense that their content would be ejected as well

In my case I did absolutely nothing to warrant a sitewide ban. As a user of 10+ years I was well aware of the rules and conducted myself as such.

If they're just randomly purgining users then it would make even more sense to remove their content as well as to not leave a lasting reminder of what they did

I was genuinely surprised to find my content still up and available since they can't seem to even bother responding to my appeal request. Certainly made their action feel permanent