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Let's take a moment to appreciate all the advice that u/[deleted] has given us throughout the years.
Reminds me, I ran a script to edit all my comments before deleting them all when I left years ago.
Run it again. Those scripts take a few rounds and still my not get it all, because reddit doesn't always show your full comment history, even to a script.
They can still recover it. There was some guy here in lemmy who was a huge answer man on some tech community. During the appocalypse he scrubbed his account 3 times before deleting his account. Went to check like a week later and all his answers had been restored.
Not sure why anyone really expect companies to allow then to use their own tools to screw them. All that data is backed up several times even if the delete actually deletes the comment and edit actually replaces the comment. But it can even be better for performance reasons to just remove the reference or point the comment content at a new comment while the old remains somewhere. Writing a script to undo the mass deletions/edits might have been trivial if they also keep a record of the previous data in the comment's db entry.
Even the legally required ones only really matter if an audit catches them and the consequences are steep. And the auditor isn't willing to look away because of some sort of kickbacks or job offers after their time auditing.
It’s all gone now and the account was deleted. This was a few years back. But I do remember getting a bunch of auto mod messages about modifying my comments and them being removed for doing so. Probably because the edit was to “fuck /u/spez”