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		Glench on June 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage It doesn't yet, but that's not how deleting on Reddit works. When you delete a comment it isn't still publicly visible.

pretext-1 on June 12, 2023 [–]

Don’t know if this is still the case but back when Reddit was open source they would keep the comment in the database on deletion, but using the edit feature you could actually remove the content from the db.

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