Because there’s a lot of jerks who will find out you are a woman and be a creep in your DMs, or find something vulnerable you revealed years ago and be cruel about it, or DOXX and stalk you.
Unfortunately, I believe that 1000 limit is deep in the structure or at least the assumptions of reddit. You can't view more than 1000 of anything. With a database as large as reddit, allowing users to generate unlimited sized queries could affect everyone. The 1000 limit has existed since the beginning of reddit.
"Fix that"? It probably would mean re-writing a lot of the software, and then possibly re-formatting a database with 100 billion or more records. And it would impact performance site-wide, slowing down EVERYONE and probably requiring reddit to buy more servers. I occasionally get involved in capacity planning in my $dayjob, I am not exaggerating. Reddit is a BIG site, 40+ million unique people use it every day. Database structure and performance is very important.
If someone has more than 1000 active blocks, then maybe they should re-evaluate how they use reddit. Because blocks don't stop someone from making an alternate account or just not being logged in, and looking at all your posts and comments. If all that account does is look, you don't know they are there. If someone wants, it isn't very difficult to create multiple accounts with no connections to each other and comment away without being blocked, at least until you notice them and block yet another.
I do it because I got tired of people crawling through my feed and using posts to be an asshole when they don't even know the context. Had a post titled "looking for a friend" in a fanfic sub. The body text was how I was trying to find a specific fic for a friend of mine. Some loser troll didn't like what I had to say in a comment, scrolled my feed at a glance and went off about how I was "a whiny loser crying and looking for friends". That's why I hide my profile.
I leave my profile public, but I also had PMs disabled because I don't feel like engaging with people who want a reason to be mad.
I also have no interest in digging through other people's profiles. Bringing up something from an unrelated thread just seems weird to me, and part of it is just a general preference to just treat people as they are in a thread and not who they are in general. Reddit's a big mall and I don't need to know which stores they shop at.
I basically just treat every thread like it's own thing and do my best to comment in a constructive manner.
I also don't feel like maintaining multiple accounts, or getting yelled at by admins because of accidental overlap or because of ban evasion or whatever.
If you search, you can find their posts/comments/media despite having everything hidden. You can even find and view “removed” comments, if you wanted to. Sub Mods can see everything for 28 days of interacting on their sub as well.
So whats “hidden” isnt really hidden. It just gives the user a (false) sense of security, in the hopes of deterring judgement, potential stalkers and/or downvoting brigades, etc. What it actually does is sacrifice any trust in their intent.
If you search, you can find their posts/comments/media despite having everything hidden. You can even find and view “removed” comments, if you wanted to.
How so? I admit that I've not looked that hard, but I haven't heard that that was possible outside of stuff like certain mod abilities.
The way I see users’ ‘hidden’ content is by searching within the user’s page (in the Reddit app), without entering anything into the search field—ie. just tap the field and hit ‘search’. And deleted/removed comments can be found with sites like undelete, reveddit, wayback machine, and likely others.
Firstly, why dont you explain why you feel entitled to see someone's entire reddit history if thryve chosen not to share it... you're not entitled to a freely accessible stroll through someone's profile just because you want it.
Actually my question to you is why do you want to probe? It is upto each person, and that includes YOU to choose what he/she wants to do. What are you going to gain by knowing someone's history.? if the reason is genuine we can always reach out to the person through DM.
while it's not 100% hidden. at least it's hidden enough for those that click and want to lurk your profile directly. i hate people that snoop at my profile especially those that want to attack you with whatever they find on your profile during a discussion/argument.
because i've had that happened in the past and that to me is honestly pathetic when people do that.
There were several groups that organised to extort and harass people away from using Reddit. This change makes it much harder for them to accomplish their goals without showing Reddit who is involved in the coordinated harassment.
These are the same people who, from 2015 to 2022, sought to Make Reddit Die, in vengeance for the site kicking them off for posting NCIM, CSEM, violent terrorism, threats, racism, etc
Sounds like a fight I missed, & wouldn't really want to be a part of.
If it keeps the scum out, it suits me though. if the balance is spammier or ruder users, I guess that's just the way the 'interwebz' is heading. Anonymity breeds contempt.
Moderators are able to view the entire post and comment history of any account that participates in a community they moderate, so having active and engaged moderators that have the time and energy to check the histories of people who antagonise their communities, or spam lots of posts, etc - that counters the efforts of spammers and trolls to hide their histories
I got banned in a sub I liked for being a part of another sub I liked, no way for them to know that but to check my history. Why don’t you share your Google history for all of us to see? Is privacy such a bad answer?
This is also why I hid mine, after it being public for 14 years. Reddit is doing ~nothing about the brigading and (down)voting rings (nor about subreddit mods banning you because you commented in another sub at some point, but that's a separate concern.)
I haven’t encountered that problem yet thankfully in my decade using the site.
I only seem to find them in my commens when somone is arguing in bad faith and I check to see their account is hidden. I don’t usually respond to them.
You can also block people if they are targeting you and you never see them again.
maybe scroll down instead of up... but there's less than a dozen comments here so it won't be hard to see which one's match my username unless you're being obtuse
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Because there’s a lot of jerks who will find out you are a woman and be a creep in your DMs, or find something vulnerable you revealed years ago and be cruel about it, or DOXX and stalk you.
Reddit could fix this by giving us unlimited block. 1000 blocks is not enough if you are a woman with Opinions.
Unfortunately, I believe that 1000 limit is deep in the structure or at least the assumptions of reddit. You can't view more than 1000 of anything. With a database as large as reddit, allowing users to generate unlimited sized queries could affect everyone. The 1000 limit has existed since the beginning of reddit.
Google "reddit 1000 limit".
Then they need to fix that. Even being able to buy an extra 1,000 blocks would improve things.
"Fix that"? It probably would mean re-writing a lot of the software, and then possibly re-formatting a database with 100 billion or more records. And it would impact performance site-wide, slowing down EVERYONE and probably requiring reddit to buy more servers. I occasionally get involved in capacity planning in my $dayjob, I am not exaggerating. Reddit is a BIG site, 40+ million unique people use it every day. Database structure and performance is very important.
If someone has more than 1000 active blocks, then maybe they should re-evaluate how they use reddit. Because blocks don't stop someone from making an alternate account or just not being logged in, and looking at all your posts and comments. If all that account does is look, you don't know they are there. If someone wants, it isn't very difficult to create multiple accounts with no connections to each other and comment away without being blocked, at least until you notice them and block yet another.
Not that thay wouldn’t be useful, but for it to replace the privacy feature it would require also knowing pre-emptively who to block
Oh I just go one by one
Cant fix with blocking when people can make throw-away accounts in like 3 seconds
If you feel the need to block 1,000 people, it's definitely a you problem.
If you can't say anything nice....
...then you probably need to block more than 1,000 people.
I'm sure it feels very good to block someone who has already doxxed you or shown up at your door.
wtf?
Blocking doesn't fix that problem. Hiding your history does. That's what this post is about.
Also this!
This!
I do it because I got tired of people crawling through my feed and using posts to be an asshole when they don't even know the context. Had a post titled "looking for a friend" in a fanfic sub. The body text was how I was trying to find a specific fic for a friend of mine. Some loser troll didn't like what I had to say in a comment, scrolled my feed at a glance and went off about how I was "a whiny loser crying and looking for friends". That's why I hide my profile.
I had some guy trying to insult me in a car sub because I played gran turismo.
Man, makes me wonder what insults people would throw at me.
People are ridiculous
Get enough pieces together and someone can totally pin down your life. Make that harder to do, and it’s much harder to identify you.
Not your call, OP, nor your business. Many people have reasons for needing anonymity.
The continuous flood of dms in my inbox, creeping on me. This is why I instantly ignore messages.
I leave my profile public, but I also had PMs disabled because I don't feel like engaging with people who want a reason to be mad.
I also have no interest in digging through other people's profiles. Bringing up something from an unrelated thread just seems weird to me, and part of it is just a general preference to just treat people as they are in a thread and not who they are in general. Reddit's a big mall and I don't need to know which stores they shop at.
I basically just treat every thread like it's own thing and do my best to comment in a constructive manner.
I also don't feel like maintaining multiple accounts, or getting yelled at by admins because of accidental overlap or because of ban evasion or whatever.
If you search, you can find their posts/comments/media despite having everything hidden. You can even find and view “removed” comments, if you wanted to. Sub Mods can see everything for 28 days of interacting on their sub as well.
So whats “hidden” isnt really hidden. It just gives the user a (false) sense of security, in the hopes of deterring judgement, potential stalkers and/or downvoting brigades, etc. What it actually does is sacrifice any trust in their intent.
How so? I admit that I've not looked that hard, but I haven't heard that that was possible outside of stuff like certain mod abilities.
The way I see users’ ‘hidden’ content is by searching within the user’s page (in the Reddit app), without entering anything into the search field—ie. just tap the field and hit ‘search’. And deleted/removed comments can be found with sites like undelete, reveddit, wayback machine, and likely others.
You can search Reddit for:
author:theirusernameTo see someone’s posts and comments who have hidden them from their profile.
Thank you. That now makes it doubly pointless. Just a few extra clicks.
Not as pointless as you'd think. The more steps involved in doing something the less likely someone will do it.
https://preview.redd.it/3bhyv0p05m6g1.jpeg?width=131&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38deff820b13da5fa573404dd881a18cdd728675
The image quality is like VHS, xd
https://preview.redd.it/7l6qt05mvm6g1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee94f9d15c3e645abb7413751bdff0efe3b686ef
That’s what makes it good
Search how?
Search Reddit for:
author:theirusernameOh I didn’t knew there were search keywords like that, cool
Yep! Here’s a list of them if you’re curious: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/19696541895316-Available-search-features
There’s also some unlisted ones.
Nice, thanks!
It interferes with stalkers.
Firstly, why dont you explain why you feel entitled to see someone's entire reddit history if thryve chosen not to share it... you're not entitled to a freely accessible stroll through someone's profile just because you want it.
Use https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/
You can find literally anything a user made, including removed or deleted posts/comments. I promise you, it’s worth using.
And why would I want something that's not even remotely useful...
It’s for people with no lives who care about what the people on the internet are saying.
You can easily view their history by clicking "search" then "best of" in their profile,at least on mobile
Actually my question to you is why do you want to probe? It is upto each person, and that includes YOU to choose what he/she wants to do. What are you going to gain by knowing someone's history.? if the reason is genuine we can always reach out to the person through DM.
while it's not 100% hidden. at least it's hidden enough for those that click and want to lurk your profile directly. i hate people that snoop at my profile especially those that want to attack you with whatever they find on your profile during a discussion/argument.
because i've had that happened in the past and that to me is honestly pathetic when people do that.
There were several groups that organised to extort and harass people away from using Reddit. This change makes it much harder for them to accomplish their goals without showing Reddit who is involved in the coordinated harassment.
These are the same people who, from 2015 to 2022, sought to Make Reddit Die, in vengeance for the site kicking them off for posting NCIM, CSEM, violent terrorism, threats, racism, etc
Sounds like a fight I missed, & wouldn't really want to be a part of.
If it keeps the scum out, it suits me though. if the balance is spammier or ruder users, I guess that's just the way the 'interwebz' is heading. Anonymity breeds contempt.
Moderators are able to view the entire post and comment history of any account that participates in a community they moderate, so having active and engaged moderators that have the time and energy to check the histories of people who antagonise their communities, or spam lots of posts, etc - that counters the efforts of spammers and trolls to hide their histories
You can search Reddit for:
author:theirusernameTo see someone’s posts and comments who have hidden them from their profile.
List of some additional search filters here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/19696541895316-Available-search-features
I have a crazy family member who likes to stalk me online
Thanks, can finally hide my history hehe
I got banned in a sub I liked for being a part of another sub I liked, no way for them to know that but to check my history. Why don’t you share your Google history for all of us to see? Is privacy such a bad answer?
It makes identifying easy. If they are hidden they’re are not a genuine person.
I don't like people replying on my other comments in irrelevant threads. I'm a genuine person.
This is also why I hid mine, after it being public for 14 years. Reddit is doing ~nothing about the brigading and (down)voting rings (nor about subreddit mods banning you because you commented in another sub at some point, but that's a separate concern.)
That’s unfortunate you don’t like that and need to hide your account.
Who likes people harassing you wherever you reply? Does anyone like this?
I haven’t encountered that problem yet thankfully in my decade using the site.
I only seem to find them in my commens when somone is arguing in bad faith and I check to see their account is hidden. I don’t usually respond to them.
You can also block people if they are targeting you and you never see them again.
That is very lucky for you
It’s been keeping my stalkers from following me to other subs.
You can make a new account?
And that's why the feature exists, Reddit doesn't want people splitting activity over multiple accounts and making the userdata less valuable.
there are tons of legitimate reasons for it. I listed some above.
I’m not seeing your other comments in this thread and your hidden account prevents me from easily finding it.
maybe scroll down instead of up... but there's less than a dozen comments here so it won't be hard to see which one's match my username unless you're being obtuse
Just not showing up on mobile for me.
I’ve looked at all of 19 comments.
https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1pk2mmc/comment/ntiovtx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
It does look like your comment got purged or shadow banned.
Would you mind saying it again?
Awesome thank you.
It got removed or filtered by automod
They're into folk punk, very understandable they would want to hide their history
(It's extremely trivial to bypass the hidden posts/comment feature)
haha!
Either a bot or a woman.
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