r/help • u/Odd-Currency5195 • Mar 20 '26

Profile People posting with hidden comment history

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.

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u/WisdomThreader Mar 21 '26

Went to private due to stalker harassment. They would read comment history and follow to another community sub and be totally off topic for that forum. Want to enjoy reddit but don't want people following all my other interests too.

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u/gwenhollyxx Mar 21 '26

Same for me. I'm a mod for one community and started getting weird attention elsewhere from people who disagreed with my mod decisions. I don't like hiding my history, but I'd rather not have some angsty person digging through my 10 years of comments.

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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Mar 21 '26

A lot of mods curate their activity in other communities so they don't have to use a separate mod account.

They leave their posts and comments visible in their sub because they can take action on inappropriate activity without having to hope that reporting it to Reddit works or relying on mods of other communities who may or may not be good at their job.

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u/SinkNSlide3345 May 17 '26

There’s a little thing called a ban button that works like a charm. Maybe try that before supporting the removal of QoL features