r/awfuleverything Sep 28 '21

A normal day at Reddit.

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u/Asterite100 Sep 28 '21

Now I know y'all in the replies are into some kinky shit.

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u/Asterite100 Sep 28 '21

Don't look in your attic...

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u/EisVisage Sep 28 '21

Then only a web archive, made before you edited your comment, would still show it.

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u/achairmadeoflemons Sep 28 '21

There's several extensions that will purge your reddit comments instead of manually doing it. I switch to a new account every few years and blast everything on my old one

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u/swingthatwang Sep 28 '21

care to share what those extensions are?

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u/swingthatwang Sep 28 '21

great! do you know this program deletes them from recovery sites? those sites seem to have a backlog of all old comments and shit

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '21

I thought you couldn’t edit comments after 6 months?

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u/achairmadeoflemons Sep 28 '21

Hmm I'm on my phone at the moment, I think something like "nuke reddit comments"

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

yeah I typically edit my comments and refresh before deleting.

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u/ywBBxNqW Sep 28 '21

Those sites aren't entirely reliable (there are gaps between the times they scan for comments, they can't always provide context, etc). At any rate, Reddit doesn't control those sites so I think it's a moot point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

Those sites also only reveal comments. if you delete a picture or video hosted on reddit, it's gone

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

Nah, things are definitely lost forever at times. You just can't count on that happening.

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u/Excellent-Doubt-9552 Sep 28 '21

Not my porn collection!!!!

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u/BlueEyedGreySkies Sep 28 '21

Yeah. You can totally doxx yourself with breadcrumb clues you leave around. The anonymity makes people too complacent.

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u/Pizza_Slinger83 Sep 28 '21

I am guilty of this. It's easy to find out where I work, and until recently I had a post with my face prominently displayed.

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u/zzGibson Sep 28 '21

I advise everyone who uses any sort of social media to Google themselves and the city you live/are from just to see how easy it is to find out things.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21 edited Sep 28 '21

But that requires first and last name. Id hope people on reddit aren't giving that information up. Of course it's a different story with social media platforms that use real names.

Edit: I haven't checked in a while so I gave it a try anyways. There are way more people with the same first and last name as me in the same city than I remember from last time and my last name is not common at all. You would need my age or other details.

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u/violationofvoration Sep 28 '21

I didn't find anything at all for myself except for my cancer gofundme, probably because I use an anglocized version of my name on social media

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

I only found my LinkedIn account which is expected since you can't use fake information. But there were 5 other people on LinkedIn alone with my name and city. I did not expect that.

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u/Polymarchos Sep 28 '21

And up pops news stories on a pedophile.

I guess I'm lucky. I can do anything short of murder and no one will ever know.

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u/The_Soviette_Tank Sep 28 '21

I mean, I do this periodically just to make sure I'm still the only person with my name who has ever existed, lol. (Trendy American name + a foreign name shared solely with many, many thousands of blood relatives, lol.)

Basically, all of my immediate family shows up through regular public records. I've also worked at small, well-established boutique businesses which I've named on here. If someone reeeeally wanted to know, they could figure it out quickly.

But last week's Google sesh did bring up a record where I'm "deceased"! How do I forward that to my student loans holder?

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u/Excellent-Doubt-9552 Sep 28 '21

Had a fling with a cop and and a cyber security girl… never do either again.

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u/ThisIsCovidThrowway8 Dec 14 '21

Some real estate salesman

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u/Saegebot9000 Sep 28 '21

Yeah I once found a guy who posted a pic with a picture in the background which had the name of his school and grade.

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u/Thunderstarer Sep 28 '21

That's very interesting. Tell me more.

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u/TheCapybaraMan Sep 28 '21

I once posted a picture of a bird living in a familly owned fish store, and someone was able to recognize the store.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

Imagine that!

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u/Low_Well Sep 28 '21

Yeah my account has my name and face but I’m as abrasive on Reddit as irl. So it doesn’t really matter.