Your first Karmdit run, end to end.

Karmdit doesn't need much from you, but it does want a few things in place before the first run. Two minutes here saves twenty later.

• You're signed in to Reddit on the same browser. We don't ask for your password — Karmdit uses Reddit's official OAuth flow.
• You have a rough sense of what you're cleaning. The next step gives you three options if you don't.
• You're not on a public Wi-Fi you don't trust. Standard advice for anything involving identity.

A clean room before a clean account. Tidy desk, tidy run.

Click Start cleaning in the top-right of any Karmdit page. You'll be sent to Reddit for authentication.

Reddit will ask whether you want to grant Karmdit Cleaner the following:

• Read your account history. So we can show you what's there.
• Edit and delete your posts and comments. The actual cleaning. We never post anything new on your behalf.
• Read your private profile. So we can scan beyond the public-facing pages.

Approve, and you'll bounce back to a fresh Karmdit dashboard with your full history indexed. The first index typically finishes in under 90 seconds for accounts under 50,000 items.

The dashboard offers three modes. They're not exclusive — you can switch later — but pick whichever matches your reason for being here today.

1. Surgical. Find specific items by keyword, subreddit, or date range. Best when you know roughly what you're after.
2. Full sweep. Karmdit grades every item on a 0–10 risk score. You set a cutoff and approve a single batch.
3. Pre-Event. 21-day monitored run with a certification report. Choose this if there's a launch, interview, or press cycle on the horizon.

Most first-timers pick Full sweep with the default cutoff at 6.5. The cutoff slider has live counts so you can dial in exactly how aggressive you want to be.

Before anything is deleted, Karmdit shows you a preview list — every item that will be touched, with the score and the reason. Items are grouped by why they were flagged.

You can:

• Pin to keep. Right-click any item and pin it. Pinned items are never touched, in this run or any future one.
• Override the score. Bump or reduce a single item's score with a one-click thumbs-up/thumbs-down. The model learns from this.
• Save the list. Export to CSV if you want a record before deletion.

Take as long as you want here. The preview doesn't expire.

Confirm, and Karmdit begins the deletion. The progress is live but you don't need to watch it. You'll get an email when it's done — usually under four minutes for the standard sweep.

Karmdit edits items before deleting them. This is non-obvious but important: pure deletion doesn't always remove a comment from caches and archives. The overwrite-then-delete pattern wipes the actual content from the most common indexes.

Don't stand around watching. The first run takes four minutes. Make tea.

When the run finishes, you'll find a fresh report in Reports → Latest. It's a PDF you can hand to a comms team, a recruiter, or your future self.

The report includes:

• Counts: items reviewed, items removed, items kept.
• Karma before and after, and the residual exposure score.
• Cache and archive status for every removed item, with a re-check date 30 days out.
• A signature block with the run ID, so the report is cryptographically attestable.

Most people don't need to send this anywhere. But it's there if you do.

You're done. Three things you might consider from here:

• Set a monthly cadence. Once a month, Karmdit can re-run the sweep on whatever's accumulated since. Automatic, no email reminders.
• Add an alt account. Karmdit handles up to four accounts in the same dashboard without cross-correlating them.
• Read Guide 07: Pre-Event Mode. If you have anything coming up that involves your name in public, that's the next playbook.

That's the whole thing. Welcome to a slightly tidier internet.