Never been more glad to have left that sinking ship early
Absolutely horrid feature. Supposedly it’s to protect vulnerable people’s privacy if they post in certain communities, but if they truly wanted that to be how it’s used, they’d have limited the ability to apply the feature only to subreddits where mods have specifically coordinated with the admins to get approved as places where vulnerable people are posting. Or, and here’s a shocker, they could just rely on the tried-and-tested method of using alt accounts. Instead, bots and trolls just hide their entire post history from people.
Now, supposedly, mods can see the full, unhidden history of any user who has recently posted in their subreddits. Which is good. But the number of other good-faith users being obstructed by this change is huge. It’s overall a massive failure from Reddit.
Besides, you can still see their post history simply by searching
"u/username" site:reddit.comIt gives people a false sense of security
Yeah, but it’s an extra step many won’t take.
If someone had a dedicated stalker, that stalker would definitely take extra steps to keep going.
Yeah, won’t keep away the stalkers, but will keep away the regular people.
which defeats the whole point…
You can still see post history.
I still pepper my Reddit profile with a cohesive fake backstory, alluded to through random posts.
Randomly have chud redditors reach out to me after I upset them, making vague jokes/threats about my non-existent family or non-existent health issues.
Feels good.
Have you hidden your profile? It’s not automatic afaik, but it’s an option that’s available.
Yes, I toggled the setting over recently on Reddit - makes it a bit more fun to be weird in certain subs with very curious users.
Reddit did WHAT?
huge number of people who make controversial statements (particularly those who are pro-russia) have their profiles set to hidden so you can’t see what else they have posted
That is very much the first people I would expect making use of that feature, yes.
Mfw putting “author:username” into the Reddit search bypasses this
Bots only upvote their own bot circle or content which makes their owners $$$$.
Real human concerns will only be heard if they align with $$$$.
We are remaking the whole world for bots.
Most of Reddit was bots interacting with bots a while ago already.
Reddit has been dead since the late 2010s, which is when it grew from mostly just college networks and hobbyists to everyone (old people, etc.) so it was pretty much facebook.
There used to be a site called Reddit, where you were your post history. Now that site is dead - the URL still works, I guess, but it links to some weird Twitter with an alien logo.
Congrats for the moderator of /r/Jailbait for becoming a billionaire! /s
Wasn’t that shown to be just a similar account but no proof that it was actually the reddit ceo?
