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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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This sounds like it would hurt Reddit more than the users since a lot of value was in being able to search archived solutions to obscure problems.
It's just the chat though, not posts comments. I've probably used chat 3 times since it exists, I couldn't care less about the history. I'm sure most don't mind. Still, Reddit sucks.
If I understand correctly, this is only about private chats and private messages. Public comments you still have to blank/delete personally, and Reddit seems to be keeping restoring them.
I'm finding they are stealth restoring them. As in, I've deleted all my posts/comments, but every once and a while, I'm finding someone replying to a post I've most definitely deleted. And my profile shows no posts/comments associated with my account.
What is much more likely is that you didn't delete all your comments and posts. Reddit "listings" only go back 1000 items and if you delete an item from there older items don't pop into view. So if you deleted all comments visible from your profile and you had posted more than 1000 comments you effectively never deleted all your comments.
This might be relevant: https://tildes.net/~tech/16on/reddit_is_silently_restoring_deleted_edited_comments#comment-8o2b