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You'll want to destructively edit them, because apparently Reddit has recently started removing soft delete flags on some content, and it's not clear to people why besides possibly this blackout.

It's not clear if Reddit has post history to rollback destructive edits.

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A substantial portion of my destructive edits (that were followed by deletion) appear to have now been rolled back, so it appears they do have the ability. These were recently deleted, however; there may be a time limit based on edit time.

Thanks for sharing this.

Why were they rolled back? Your content was deemed important?

Spez doesn't want comments that say "this comment was removed"; it hurts the IPO.

I opted for "This space intentionally left blank".

I went with “Apollo didn’t kill itself”

Okay, that's quite funny. Thank you.

This is false. Feel free to link to your source which will inevitably turn out to be someone who doesn't understand that the problem was actually in their deletion script or their understanding of it.

They must so people can't just edit away ban-worthy content

same article says they're rolling back destructive edits

Anything stopping you from editing them again?

if you've deleted the account, you no longer have a "handle" onto the comment.

Depending on how they've done the restore, you may not have a handle on the comment even if you haven't deleted the account.

Also, nothing stopping them from doing any of it again.

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