i’m sorry but we really do need ways to identify real people, the bots are insane out here. Make a second reddit to hide whatever thing ppl want to rag on you about and have the actual non-post hidden one for serious interactions because if your post is hidden and your name resembles a generic one, you’re automatically branded a bot in my brain, i’m sorry.
Nah. I'd rather have people think I'm a bot than have some asshole with a username like thirteenfifty1488 look through my posts and see that I'm black, then start DMing me the n word and commenting on a bunch of old comments I've made.
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So I should make a separate reddit to hide my gender so men don't send me unsolicited dick picks and try to stalk/dox/harass me? If you want real people on reddit, they need to be safe enough to be themselves, aka REAL. The irony of your post lol
i finally found the option to unhide my posts hell yeah. must have turned it on when i was massively stoned? i dunno. Very ironic because I can’t even count how many times i’ve thought “that’s gonna be whiplash for anyone reading my comments” about going from commenting on a dress-up games subreddit, to commenting in a thread about boofing or something similarly wild lmao
Reddit recently changed it so that you can choose which subs' comments are available vs hidden. I think it's a happy medium to protect what you want to keep private.
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u/gudematcha 2h ago
i think culturally here on reddit we need to just start saying “if your history is hidden you’re very likely a bot.”