That’s how a lot of people handle deleted data in database, it’s literally just a flag. That’s why there’s a recommendation to edit Reddit posts before deleting them, to ensure they’re actually overwritten so they can’t just be restored.
Yes, that’s certainly possible, but it’s also out of my control. I have basically three options:
Delete account - we know this doesn’t delete comments
Delete comment - “seems” to delete comments, but we’ve seen comments get restored - so probably using a “deleted” flag
Edit comment with nonsense and when delete - should poison comment if they’re just using the deleted flag
That’s it. There’s no guarantee it works, but it has a much higher chance of working than the other two.
And there’s a good chance they delete old backups. Hosting every edit is expensive, so there’s a decent chance they clean up old data after some months.
That’s how a lot of people handle deleted data in database, it’s literally just a flag. That’s why there’s a recommendation to edit Reddit posts before deleting them, to ensure they’re actually overwritten so they can’t just be restored.
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Yes, that’s certainly possible, but it’s also out of my control. I have basically three options:
That’s it. There’s no guarantee it works, but it has a much higher chance of working than the other two.
And there’s a good chance they delete old backups. Hosting every edit is expensive, so there’s a decent chance they clean up old data after some months.
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Funny how you think an edit doesn’t write the old record to a comments_old table
Well, there’s a non-zero chance they were too lazy to implement that.