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DaSHacka
on June 12, 2023
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Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
Does it overwrite the content of each comment before deleting it? Otherwise it's still publicly visible and would have less of an effect
Glench
on June 12, 2023
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It doesn't yet, but that's not how deleting on Reddit works. When you delete a comment it isn't still publicly visible.
pretext-1
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Don’t know if this is still the case but back when Reddit was open source they would keep the comment in the database on deletion, but using the edit feature you could actually remove the content from the db.
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