Is there a voat script to use the API to overwrite your comment history and then delete the posts? (AskVoat)

submitted ago by bob3333

The news that voat has a new "partner" has me nervous. I'm making contingency plans in the event that the partner turns out to insist on some sort of "curation," or if it seems like they're here to use voat as some sort of honeypot. If that happens I would like to remove every trace of everything I've ever posted to voat, but before writing my own script I wanted to check and see if this is work that has already been done.

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

PuttItOut ago

Just delete your account.

We wipe all your data, including content replacement, when a user deletes their account (make sure you pay attention to the options as you can leave content or anonymize it too).

It makes me nervous that you are a janitor on a system sub and are posting submissions like this.

o0shad0o ago

Thanks Putt.

@bob3333, please note that deleting content from Voat itself won't wipe out archived content elsewhere on the net. Also, that if someone hasn't already associated your account with other info on the net (via clickthrus, etc) shortly after you posted it, it's unlikely they'll be able to later, so IMO deletion to hide yourself is excessively paranoid. If you're concerned about future associations made, just drop the account.

capnflummox ago

Sometimes it's not about protecting oneself. In this case, or in the case when I left reddit, I wanted to make sure all my contributions to the site went away. I did not want (((them))) to get one cent from someone clicking or reading one of my old posts.

If voat gets (((bought out))), I will definitely be deleting all my old contributions to the site.

wifblat ago

You're pretty concerned about someone buying the site, but haven't bothered to financially support it...

capnflummox ago

Says who? How do you know I have or have not supported the site? And another thing: don't count my money, Nigger. Whether I had or had not financially supported the site, it's of no fucking business of yours.

Kike.

wifblat ago

You should probably delete everything and leave now.

capnflummox ago

Why? Because you say so? Fuck off...