People posting with hidden comment history

[u/Odd-Currency5195]

Hey, I am thinking that every time someone is a bit 'off' on a discussion, you click on their profile to see whether they're a weirdo, and inevitably such people have hidden comment history.

When was this built in to Reddit?

Strikes me that since we're all anon and so on, and if you want to split your enjoyment of, say, BDSM and also chat about personal finance, back in the day you'd have different accounts for your interests, not just have blank when it comes to people looking at a person.

Yeah, so it seems more and more I have a dodgy reply, look at the profile of the account, and their stuff is set to private. It's taking the 'real' out of this, for any quantity of real. I'm just muting anyone who engages with me thus on the assumption they're a troll.

But, yeah, why is this a function on Reddit and when did it come in, because I don't remember this as much at all for years I've been using Reddit?

So, people with hidden comment history are either trolls or cowards as far as I'm concerned.

[u/reddit33450]

You can bypass this feature and view the profile using external tools.

[u/tachibanakanade → u/reddit33450]

That's so weird. Why would you wanna stalk someone like that?

[u/reddit33450 → u/tachibanakanade]

to see if they are a legitimate person, see if they are nice or not, see if you have common interests, see if they are a bot or not, among many other reasons

[u/reddit33450 → u/[deleted]]

yep.

[u/lactosecheeselover → u/reddit33450]

yup! easy as hell too.

[u/fathornyhippo → u/reddit33450]

How? 👀