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.
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.
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…
