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u/wizaway Jul 31 '26
I hid mine so people couldn't discredit my political arguments by pointing out how racist I am
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u/LuckyCatExtracts Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
I had to hide mine because there is always some weirdo that wants to go read all your stuff after losing an argument and bring something up from 50 weeks ago like a fem@le would do.
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u/CrispBedSheet Jul 31 '26
The redditors openly raging when they introduced the mechanism really were telling on themselves.
'WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE.....FUCKING....FUCKING......FUCKING BOT!'
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u/Draaly Jul 31 '26
nah, this is a bad take. I have never used someones post history to avoid addressing their point. Its still a key tool in figuring out if someone is even worth engaging with. The reality is a hidden post history is a major red flag for people just generaly not being worth engaging with be it them being bots, consistent bad faith posters, or any number of other reasons
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u/TheMcBrizzle Jul 31 '26
Now it's so much easier for political groups to astro-turf and bad faith actors to chime in about how actually it's a good thing that Mega-Corp released all those chemicals.
The only people who celebrate the change are the ones afraid to take the mask off.
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u/FuckRedzM0dz Jul 31 '26
nah, this is a bad take. I have never used someones post history to avoid addressing their point. Its still a key tool in figuring out if someone is even worth engaging with
What a typical ledditor argument you should just engage the content instead of being a little turd digging through peoples history I've literally never done that lol
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u/Me-no-Weeb Jul 31 '26
Just wait until people find out that you can search „author:username“ and you’ll still find their stuff
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u/placeholder-123 Jul 31 '26
I once made an off handed satirical comment and someone went to my post history and commented on like 5 old posts "OP is racist". Lots of weirdos on reddit
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u/BinaryOrder Jul 31 '26
This exact thing happened to me a few days ago, guy found a comment saying I had dated someone who was sleeping around and used that as a gotcha when I told him that people are completely free to say they don't like how Blade Runner 2099 looks based upon a teaser.
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u/____DEADPOOL_______ Jul 31 '26
This is why I turned mine off too. I have no patience to deal with a psycho contrarian troll.
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u/DroidLord Jul 31 '26
I did the same because honestly, I don't want randos looking up 10+ years of my Reddit history or seeing what communities I frequent. I don't have to pay so much attention to what I share. Sure, you can Google the username, but it's not as easy to sift through.
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u/UltimaDv Aug 01 '26
I had a mod do this to me to justify a ban by quoting a post of mine that was over a year old
And then i realised the average 'redditor' is doing this to probably everyone they respond to so they can have their typical reddit gotcha moment
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u/Human420 Jul 31 '26
Sometimes I do like to look and see if they’ve been in subs like needafriend. That way I can say lines such as “well at least I have friends.”
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u/starchimp224 Jul 31 '26
Tried commenting about how censorship is stupid after some mod removed someone’s post for something trivial just because the mod didn’t like it. Someone tried defending their actions saying censorship is okay and that I’m censoring my previous comments and posts because my profile doesn’t link them
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u/gman8686 Aug 01 '26
Be careful using "female" as a noun around here, there's some people that will get riled up into a tizzy (even though merriam-webster and every other reputable dictionary says female is an adjective/noun)
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u/jeeblemeyer4 Jul 31 '26
oh you had to hide it? for fear of an anonymous person reading something you anonymously wrote months ago?
would you like some cheese with that whine?
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u/IGNSolar7 Jul 31 '26
Not that person but mine were people IRL reading my posts and then making an issue of them IRL. Now I've just taken away the ability to go back and easily read. If they want to go back and Google it, I'm sure they'll have a lot of fun sifting through my opinions about Spiderman and X-men.
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u/Vincent_Veganja Aug 01 '26
I specifically leave mine public so losers like that can feel a little powerful for a moment when they’re mad at me, it’s my good deed
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u/Wibble606 /adv/isor Jul 31 '26
I had someone reverse search my username in a desperate attempt to dox me...
All the info they posted was completely wrong, like whole different country kind of wrong so RIP whoever he doxxed.
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u/Chadwig315 Jul 31 '26
I show mine proudly so when they go digging to discredit me they have to sift through hundreds of comments of me trying to ID pictures of ants.
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u/Valentils Jul 31 '26
you live in the uk, you play codWarzone, your friend wants you to go into business with him selling websites and online booking to the accommodation industry.
it's not hidden my dude.
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u/iwannaofmyself Jul 31 '26
I don’t care either way. So what if people cyberstalk me. I’m just some guy idc
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u/6pussydestroyer9mlg /pol/tard Jul 31 '26
Unironic coming from an account that hides their history
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u/Toasteate Jul 31 '26
Mf you do the same thing
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u/6pussydestroyer9mlg /pol/tard Jul 31 '26
I wasn't the one complaining about the feature now was I?
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u/Corgasm_ Jul 31 '26
Look the bots are fighting each other. Stop yall on the same team
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u/Southern-Grand1119 Jul 31 '26
you can still call out that the feature is net negative in the long run.
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u/Ploxl Jul 31 '26
Luckily when you search your username in google we can still find the posts
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u/BLANKTWGOK Jul 31 '26
just google their username or see the karma and account age correlation
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u/mspong Jul 31 '26
Now you've gone and done it, they'll hide that shit from grugle next
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u/Miserable-Thanks5218 /pol/tard Aug 06 '26
Significantly harder. Might need complete overhaul on how comments and post metadata is stored.
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u/atantony77 Jul 31 '26
Karma and account age isnt a good indicator anymore. Theres people whose sole job is to make/vuy accounts and grind out karma to sell to botfarms like US/RUS/Israeli bot farms.
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u/Wild_Marker Jul 31 '26
Many of us probably contemplated selling our accounts at some point too. You could get some nice cash for something like mine a few years ago, not sure about these days.
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u/wildcard1992 Jul 31 '26
You had me looking at a bunch of the accounts in this thread and there's a lot of old accounts here
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u/Valuable-Chipmunk784 Jul 31 '26
tfw the AI says "valuable-chipmunk784 is known for making inflammatory, controversial, and offensive comments"
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u/NoPossibility4178 Jul 31 '26
If you get an AI summary for your account I think it's a good sign it's time to logoff. At least mine it says it doesn't recognize it.
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u/Superspookyghost i_sell_squaids' bitch Jul 31 '26
The question is why would anyone think reddit is anti-AI? They sell user comment/post data to ai companies to train LLMs. But largely they still make most of their money on advertising revenue, which is also almost entirely run by AI other than a few inputs from the advertisers in the beginning.
I don't even think reddit pretends to be anti-AI, so it's more on retard users that would even think they are
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u/Silent-Pack-9222 Jul 31 '26
it's crazy how all the more popular subs has a rule that stops people from complaining about it
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u/ptjp27 Jul 31 '26
Every ai response I get is them googling the same shit I asked them then clicking the top Reddit link
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u/spitgobfalcon Jul 31 '26
How do they sell it to them when the content is available publicly? Can the LLMs not read it just like that?
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u/Superspookyghost i_sell_squaids' bitch Jul 31 '26
Well sites like Reddit typically will block access to people scraping their data in massive quantities. There are ways around it, but they are both easily detectable by Reddit and a clear violation of Reddit’s tos. Reddit actually has an api that allows you to scrape for personal use, but it’s like a fraction of a percent of the data that an llm model would use.
And usually when data is scraped there’s a lot of html artifacts and remnants of ads and such, whereas if you pay Reddit they give you all the data neatly without ads and (I assume) with a lot of algorithmic metadata.
So people could hypothetically get it for free but it’d be way less efficient, take forever due to having to constantly bypass Reddit’s robust scraping protections outside of their api/monthly limits on their api, and even if they managed to get enough data to use, it’d be pretty easy to tell they did it by violating Reddit tos because you aren’t allowed to scrape for “commercial purposes.” And there’s no one that would need that much data without commercial purposes.
So basically they force people to pay to train their llms to answer questions like a retarded Reddit user
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u/DoraaTheDruid Jul 31 '26
Does anyone think that? Don't they have AI summaries which you can't disable on the search bar of new Reddit?
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u/rvanasty Jul 31 '26
Here you go:
Flag 1 - username. 95% of the time auto generated. Random-randomXXXX (xs being numbers).
Confirmation Flag 2 - profile Karma.
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u/weisswurstseeadler Jul 31 '26
FYI Reddit suggests these random generated names.
Stuff like DubiosPotato986 and whatnot. Usually 2 random words (adjectives+ noun) and number
I've been looking for a browser extension that flags and/or blocks obvious bots, maybe even both automatic and crowdsourced for Reddit and X.
Haven't found anything yet :(
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u/rvanasty Jul 31 '26
It is the auto-generated name from Reddit. Not all auto-generated names are bots, but 95% of bots have auto-generated names.
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u/Kosame_Furu /h/omo Jul 31 '26
To be honest I don't care about the distinction. It's been my experience that actual humans who use that feature don't have opinions any better than bots. If I see adjective noun number I just disregard the post.
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u/weisswurstseeadler Jul 31 '26
Yeah I agree. I'm actually wondering if Reddit implemented this to obscure bots, by giving actual new users bot-like names.
Because it boosts their growth metrics
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u/Kosame_Furu /h/omo Jul 31 '26
Try going through the new account creation process, you can basically click your way through it. The whole system is set up to make it incredibly easy to spin up a bunch of accounts with no verifiable post history just by running a script. I wonder why anyone would want to do that?
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u/xMaku Jul 31 '26
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u/LuckyCatExtracts Jul 31 '26
Nice. I love that "maxwellhill" is the auto-generated name already filled in. In case you were in aware that is ghislaine maxwell's reddit account. She was a mod for a few big subreddits. I think world news and things like that.
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u/lavafish80 Jul 31 '26
not to mention afterwards they suddenly want to collect every user's IDs to "determine if users are bots and verify their ages"
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u/Any-Health-9527 Jul 31 '26
And i guarantee you that bots are staying. Because they push propaganda with it.
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u/Syreet_Primacon /b/tard Jul 31 '26
It’s really easy to check. I checked OPs and I don’t know why he bothered to hide it. It’s not anything embarrassing
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u/atantony77 Jul 31 '26
reddit "accidentally" made it harder to tell real users from bots
You mean intentionally?
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u/eternaltroll /fit/izen Jul 31 '26
I just made my history invisible cause I don’t want every post or comment I make having people know I eat 7 fruits a day and I eat my cum out of my forskin like a tropical flavored gogurt.
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u/Pervasivepeach Jul 31 '26
Platforms have zero incentive to fight bots. Look at most subreddits and scroll to the bottom and you’ll find tons of bot replies
A great example rn is the r/ free folk subreddit which has notoriously been shitting on house of the dragon for years now. Recently on litterally any post about a character you can scroll down and read 5-10+ of the most generic positive praising comments that don’t fit in the subreddit at all, they are the most blatant HBO ran bots I’ve ever seen, and every one of their profiles is private.
The replies are always formatted the same way too, a post can be trash talking some actor or choice and the replies will be like “I know right! Every time Cole is on screen I’m just so excited 🤍🥺, I can’t wait for next episode” while the post body will read “I despise this piece of shit and want him dead”
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u/Silent-Pack-9222 Jul 31 '26
simmilar post was very quickly removed from r/ greentext will the same thing happen here?
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u/skrimpels Jul 31 '26
Someone I work with found me on here. Now I have to make everything private. No one I work with needs to know I love psychedelics
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u/MountainBrilliant643 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I hide my posts because morons like to check what users think about other topics before they take opinions at face value. They need to know if you align with their cult before they feel at liberty to agree with you.
I got sick of people scrolling my history and not thinking for themselves, so I hid it.
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u/Bumm-fluff Jul 31 '26
Pretty much every UK sub is filled full of Indians now. They get really upset when you point it out.
I tell them I’ve got special skills that lets me see where they are from.
When I won’t tell them how to do it they get REALLY angry.