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> Reddit suspends accounts en mass, and when they do they nuke their entire history of comments on the site.

That's not quite true, if an account is permanently suspended, the user page is unavailable for viewing, but the comments still remain in their respective threads.

It's only if an account is shadowbanned site-wide that all the comments are automatically removed too. This is intended only for spammer accounts, but can hit genuine users who are both newly created and end up being downvoted below a certain threshold.

Pushshift only blocked such data from being queried via their API. All these users' posts and comments are still in their data dumps, which now have tens of thousands of copies after being released as torrents.

Am I the only one here who thinks it is actually quite reasonable to restore such comments?

It's equivalent to a librarian restoring some of their books that have been vandalised by a disgruntled author.