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I get the need for privacy given how many people have a habit of stalking or digging through post history for malicious purposes, but it also removes a lot of accountability. Accountability is equally as important, given that people turn into monsters without it.
Adding the ability to hide your post history is an awful feature.
Made spotting trolls a lot harder
and bad actors
Reddit is a shitty forum. American BS policies. The moderators can ban anyone they like on their own terms, being negligent or asocial. I had an account with tons of karma and I was critisising racism. I.was.critisising.racism. The moderater did not read careful, just thought I was racist and banned me. No response to any of my rightful appeal. Shitty forum.
I got banned for making fun of a nonexistent race, and I was doing it to mock the concept of racism itself.
Meh. It's a required feature at this point. Someone has stalked me on lemmy too.
At some point people started taking the internet beyond seriously. As if every random thing that's mashed into the keyboard is tantamount to sworn affidavit than must be held up to scientific peer review.
It creates far more issues than it benefits. Hiding enables bad actors much more so than not hiding does, as it allows them to more easily disguise their history of bad faith arguing.
I find most hidden profiles on redit have been religious fundies or libertarians.
There's a lot brigading state subreddits to influence elections right now :/
Yeah I've been stalked and death threatened myself, but only here. Hurray for .ml users, alienating the world one worker at a time!
Yeah I never got death threats on Reddit but I've had several on Lemmy. The last time I admitted this someone asked, "well what did you say?" As though death threats are okay if you hold the wrong political opinion.
"Well, did you sound like a nazi or not!?!?!? I'm waiting!"
I've had someone dig through my comment history as well, the funny thing was everyone else in the comments was pointing out they were wrong.
Once had a guy join a discord I was in, acted normally for a few minutes, interacted with the crowd, the whole jig. Then, out of nowhere, they start pinging me and posting my reddit history from like 7 years ago. Really weird. They got banned pretty quickly for doxxing.
The funniest part was that they were trying to shame me or something by posting comments I'd made on various NSFW subs and posts. Told them to keep digging, I was sure there was some good stuff in there. They got very upset over that lmao.
I had a guy suddenly start stalking me, following me around and posting rude comments in response to every post I made -- his username was even a slight modification of mine. I was starting to get pissed until he posted "Mom always did like me better" and I realized it was my brother who had discovered my username while hanging out in my room.
And thats why I keep accounts separate. I don't link anything to anything, I have different usernames on different services and whatnot. Even if someone somehow figures out my (now deleted) Discord and reddit usernames and starts spamming them to someone, I can just say "well thats not me lol" In that hypothetical scenario, I'd hope they people I spent time chatting with, would believe me and not the weirdo who started spamming someones reddit history.
But also, I don't care. I try to be myself all the time, so at worst, the creeps will just be spamming stuff that I normally do/say.
I had one guy who was a real fucking creep go through my post history. So I honestly understand wanting it to be private.
I never hid mine, I only deleted comments when I made a glaringly obvious mistake, such as commenting in the wrong post, or completely misreading the original post.
Comment, be honest, and let the chips fall where they may, is the rule I follow. If someone wants to call me out as a hypocrite, feel free. We're all hypocrites.
They did this to hide the bots in AI. It's BS.
makes it ripe for scams and disinformation
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
History hidden from one's Reddit profile is now hidden from author: Reddit searches as well. This was not originally the case.
I had mine hidden because you say one controversial thing in the wrong community and they're digging for dirt in comments from years ago.
But if I hide my history, I will not have the satisfaction of wasting the time of a belligerent no-lifer...
If they are particularly loathsome, that is when I google their username with "Site:reddit.com" and find their comment history and call them out for something such as being an unemployed veteran on federal assistance that is arguing against federal assistance for people that are different than them.
The second someone wastes their time in your post history you've already won
I would argue that the second you get into an argument online with strangers you've already lost
Wait....
Fuck.
This is the real answer
Sometimes you see a wild political take on Lemmy and you open their profile and see them praising Russia and China.
Sometimes? Often, lol.
Pretty sure some bingo cards have even been made.