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Those of you that had decade-old+ Reddit accounts that overwrote them, how long did it took? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by jherazob@beehaw.org to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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I mean, those of you who used to have 10+ years old accounts that then went and overwrote them using something like Shreddit or Power Delete, how long did it took for it to go through all that?

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[โ€“] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you guys think that when you edit your post/comment reddit would change this specific entry in the database? Anyone designing such a system would just store a new version and keep the old versions to have a paper trail. Same with deleting, you would only mark it as deleted, never delete anything.

And then it's very easy to roll back.

[โ€“] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's possible, but considering the storage cost of not just storing and caching every message on Reddit, but also every revision of it would likely be prohibitively costly, and probably not a priority, there's just no money on it. It's definitely a possibility, yeah, but at least with them doesn't seem likely. Besides, we cannot prove it one way or the other, so worrying about it seems like a waste of time.