Guides: cleaning up your Reddit history

Last updated: 2026-10-07

Practical, honest notes on deleting your own Reddit comments and posts, with or without a tool.

• How to delete all your Reddit commentsBy hand, with your data export, or with an extension, and how long it really takes.
• Reddit’s 1,000 comment limitWhy your profile stops at about 1,000 items and how to reach older history.
• Should you overwrite comments before deleting?What editing first changes, and what it can’t do about existing copies.
• How to request your Reddit data exportWhat you get, how long it takes, and how to use comments.csv and posts.csv.

One thing applies to all of them: deleting removes your content from Reddit’s pages, not from copies that already exist in archives, search engines, other people’s records or Reddit’s own backups.