Added the ability to toggle edit text with a static or random value, or user entered input

shreddit.py

@@ -161,13 +161,21 @@ def remove_things(things):
                 url=thing.url.encode('utf-8'))
             )
         elif isinstance(thing, Comment):
-            replacement_text = get_sentence()
+            rep_format = config.get('replacement_format')
+            if rep_format == 'random':
+                replacement_text = get_sentence()
+            elif rep_format == 'dot':
+                replacement_text = '.'
+            else:
+                replacement_text = rep_format
+
             msg = '/r/{3}/ #{0} with:\n\t"{1}" to\n\t"{2}"'.format(
                 thing.id,
                 sub(b'\n\r\t', ' ', thing.body[:78].encode('utf-8')),
                 replacement_text[:78],
                 thing.subreddit
             )
+                
             if config.get('edit_only'):
                 log.info('Editing (not removing) {msg}'.format(msg=msg))
             else:

shreddit.yml.example

@@ -61,4 +61,11 @@ nuke_hours: 720
 keep_a_copy: False
 save_directory: /tmp
 
+# Replacement text format
+# Defines what you want to edit deleted content with pre-deletion (to ensure
+# it's not saved in their database).
+# Default: Random string. But this can be detected as spam in some cases.
+# options: [random, dot, "user entered string"]
+replacement_format: random
+
 # vim: syntax=yaml ts=2