[ed312]

There are multiple projects to actively crawl and preserve reddit posts/comments. I think the old adage still applies: once its on the internet, its there forever. In my view a better, more sustainable solution is to treat commenters as humans who are flawed but grow and change over time. I don't think it is reasonable e.g. to take the comments a 13 year old makes during a Halo match as indicative of their views (or behaviors) as an adult.

[the_gipsy]

Since this is posted during the controversy, this is not about scrubbing your comments from the internet, but just from reddit, presumably to stop participating in reddit.

[ed312]

Very fair. I wanted to address a more general point. This is not the first reddit controversy, and likely won't be the last. If this is the "Digg" moment for reddit, I'll leave up to Manifold markets :)

[bmitc]

And just as a note, none of these tools can guarantee that they actually delete all of your comments. With Reddit's API, there's actually no way to get all comments. There's a limit to how far it will go back.