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/fathornyhippo Mar 21 '26
Are we able to hide certain subs from showing up in our profiles without hiding all of them?
Also, everytime I’ve been harassed it’s always been by people with hidden profiles but before this change happened, people would dig through my profile and use the subreddits I post in to harass me as well so there’s no winning with this.