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I think the only solution currently is to use something like Redact to mass edit your posts and comments to remove the data that you have input into the site. Reddit lives or dies on the information that users post/comment on it.
I personally believe that reddit is the type of company to save the orginal post and revert it just out of spite
They have been reverting them. I've been observing it in action my my Reddit account as I delete things. Even old posts that I recall deleting years ago (like random things on r/Hearthstone after I stopped playing Blizzard games) have been making a return over the past month. I've been going in and doing batches of edits to my post history every few days, and editing it differently. From ten years ago to now, I've had posts re-appearing and the edits getting un-edited.
Wild.
Are you absolutely certain? I just as well might not bother with the mass edit then.
The issue there isn't that Reddit stores the edit history (that would be too much storage space), but that it doesn't apply the edit at all and just pretends to if it you recently edited something else. You need to wait after each edit for your next edit to go through.
I had success with this Power Delete Suite fork, which waits for 5 seconds after each edit.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll give it a shot when I have time. (And edit results here if I remember.)