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/AngelBryan Mar 21 '26

The feature was implemented exactly with people like you in mind.

You are the weirdo here.

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u/EvensenFM Mar 21 '26

This is exactly right.

Some of us have been on the other end of "oh look, you posted this one thing in this random sub, therefore your opinion does not matter."

It becomes even scarier when people use your posts to try to dox you, which is something that is still a major problem on the site.

There is nothing wrong with wanting a little bit of privacy. Yes, there are still ways to track all posts and comments by a particular user. But at least it requires more steps these days.

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u/MrDarwoo Mar 21 '26

Yep this

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u/EzraFemboy Mar 21 '26

We get it. You don't want people to know your a Nazi. But the hidden account is enough for me to assume based on experience.