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They want your content to make their site worth visiting, they just don't want you
Claim that you live within the EU now and demand fully deletion of your account. Problem solved thanks to the gdpr
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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Does that get rid of che comment history?
They legally have to delete basically all content you provided unless they want to filter it manually and are open to legislation
It deletes your name from the content
It's perfect, Reddit gets to ban you and doom you to infinitely scrolling the site, while simultaneously milking engagement from your old posts!
Edit them
Did Reddit ever claim to remove threads and comments while banning someone? No. What did you expect? People are actually actively seeking for methods to remove all their messages and here you are: "People! Reddit doesn't remove your messages when ban you!" Yes, we know.
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
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.
Have you ever seen this behaviour anywhere? Ban is ban and has nothing to do with messages. At least I never saw or even heard about any forum/whatever to remove all messages while banning someone.