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.

There are two ways in, and they're not exclusive - you can switch or combine them. Pick whichever matches your reason for being here today.

1. Filters. Narrow your history by subreddit, karma score, date range, content type, or keyword. Best when you know roughly what you're after - "everything in r/AmItheAsshole", "anything below zero karma", "posts older than 2019".
2. Recipes. One-click presets for the common cases: Pre-Interview Clean, Wipe NSFW, Old Account Tidy. Each one just pre-fills the filters, and you can adjust from there before anything runs.

Whichever you start with, the dashboard shows a live count as you go, so you always know exactly how many items your current selection covers before you commit.

Before anything is deleted, Karmdit shows you a preview list - every item your filter matches, with its subreddit, score, and date. Nothing is touched until you confirm.

You can:

• Whitelist to keep. Protect any item and it's never touched - in this run, every future sweep, and every schedule.
• Refine the filter. Too broad or too narrow? Adjust the subreddit, score, or date bounds and the preview updates live.
• Export first. Take a full copy of your history - text and all - as CSV or JSON before you delete, if you want a record.

Take as long as you want here. Nothing runs until you say so.

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.

Reddit's "delete" doesn't always take on the first try - an item can succeed at the API level yet stay visible to logged-out users for a while. So Karmdit doesn't just trust the delete call.

On Pro, a verification pass runs seven days after each cleanup and re-fetches every removed item to confirm it's actually gone from public view. Each item ends up marked verified gone or, if Reddit let it resurface, returned - so you can see it and re-run.

You keep the metadata record of what was removed (subreddit, score, timestamp, permalink) for exactly this reason. The plaintext of deleted items is wiped within 24 hours; the receipt stays.

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.
• Protect what you want to keep. Add your best posts to the whitelist and they're untouchable - in this run, every future sweep, and every schedule.
• 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.