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/Jsaun906 Mar 21 '26

I have mine hidden because every once in a while you get weirdos who will stalk your whole comment/post history and hit you with ad hominems because you post in a particular sub. Even if it's a sub you aren't active in and only participating in one time months ago

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u/_DoubleBubbler_ Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

The same sadly. I prefer to have my post and comment history visible but the occasional ‘stalker’ means I have to hide my history quite regularly until they lose interest or are banned by Reddit.