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> I for one will try to undo my past contributions to accelerate its decline.

This is a great idea. I'm going to bulk edit then delete my old comments (I recall reading somewhere that editing them overwrites the original field in the database whereas deleting just sets a deleted flag).

Destroys the value that I've created for free for that shitheap, plus it's helpful to make doxxing me harder.

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Look into Shreddit [1] which does that for you. It needs API access though, so make sure to do it before June 30th...

[1]: https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

Can you edit posts and comments that are more than six months old?

Yes, I had to run the script several times, but it eventually edited and got rid of stuff that was super old. Basically every single comment made by me is gone (which I wanted). I ran it before the blackout though, not sure how it would work with Reddit in its current state.

I just bulk-edited them so I could leave a message about why the comment is gone.

Would you mind sharing how?

I used shreddit and wrote a message of my choice in the conf file. I commented out the line from the script that deleted the comment.

Thank you!

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