Yeah, from a backend perspective it seems like it would be incredibly easy to detect and roll that back, and as far as I know their TOS would allow them to do it (GDPR notwithstanding)–but I don’t know that for sure, maybe I’m just being cynical.

Actually, I looked up my old account and I guess I didn’t delete it, but all my comments are syntactically correct nonsense, though. So that makes reddit that much less legible/attractive.