I might have to look more into my state’s right to be forgotten law. I used PDS for about 2 weeks until no more zombie posts were in my profile (most resurrected by the opening of closed subs). I was cleaning out some gaming book marks and clicked on a reddit thread I’d kept and, lo and behold, I found myself in the comments. Except I’d purged all of those. And searching for myself yields no results. This is…disappointing.

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    The way listings work on reddit is very confusing to most users. I used to think that listings refilled once you removed things from them, but they don’t. If you have more than 1000 posts, comments, or whatever, you won’t ever see the 1001st thing.

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      Meaning that posts aren’t actually removed, just set to deleted in the database. Also means that they don’t use that deleted flag in the database query, instead filtering out the deleted posts after they have been retrieved, which in my mind would be a less efficient way to do it.

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        That’s why so many people tell you to edit your comments prior to deletion, I guess.