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If you're overwriting your comments on Reddit: (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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If you're using a script to do so, make sure it's handling API limits specifically for "edit" calls. I realized after I tried overwriting mine that it was quietly skipping a bunch of comments, presumably because there is (allegedly) a 1 edit call per 5 second rate limit. Since adding a 5 second delay between each re-write, it seems to be working for me.

I ran into this issue with u/j0be's Power Delete Suite, I ended up writing my own script to do the job.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This is what I did. I also added some stats about the account: account age, total karma, # of comments, ect. Otherwise it's not clear how much value is being lost if you just come across the comment in the wild.