Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
There's a python script[1] (long abandoned) called shreddit that allows you to delete old comments. It first wipes out the comment (edits them and saves a blank string, or whatever string you choose), then deletes it. Reddit devs have said before that their backups don't keep previous versions of comments.<p>Someone rewrote shreddit in Rust[2]<p>I'm currently rewriting it in JS for Deno. Still in early stages so not worth posting the mess that it's in now.<p>As soon as I'm finished with mine I'm going to setup a cron job and have it delete any reply older than a year (with some exceptions you can set either by subreddit or by comment ids). I don't have any comments about pirating so I'm not worried about that, but I also don't think comments on social media need to last forever, especially with all of the data-mining being done on them (remember Cambridge Analytica). I think something similar exists for Twitter and Facebook but I don't remember their names at the moment, maybe someone here does.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/x89/Shreddit">https://github.com/x89/Shreddit</a><p>2. <a href="https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit">https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit</a>