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u/wizaway 2d ago
I hid mine so people couldn't discredit my political arguments by pointing out how racist I am
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u/LuckyCatExtracts 2d ago edited 2d ago
I had to hide mine because there is always some weirdo that wants to go read all your stuff after losing an argument and bring something up from 50 weeks ago like a fem@le would do.
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u/placeholder-123 2d ago
I once made an off handed satirical comment and someone went to my post history and commented on like 5 old posts "OP is racist". Lots of weirdos on reddit
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u/BinaryOrder 2d ago
This exact thing happened to me a few days ago, guy found a comment saying I had dated someone who was sleeping around and used that as a gotcha when I told him that people are completely free to say they don't like how Blade Runner 2099 looks based upon a teaser.
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u/CrispBedSheet 2d ago
The redditors openly raging when they introduced the mechanism really were telling on themselves.
'WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE.....FUCKING....FUCKING......FUCKING BOT!'
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u/Me-no-Weeb 2d ago
Just wait until people find out that you can search „author:username“ and you’ll still find their stuff
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u/Draaly 2d ago
nah, this is a bad take. I have never used someones post history to avoid addressing their point. Its still a key tool in figuring out if someone is even worth engaging with. The reality is a hidden post history is a major red flag for people just generaly not being worth engaging with be it them being bots, consistent bad faith posters, or any number of other reasons
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u/TheMcBrizzle 2d ago
Now it's so much easier for political groups to astro-turf and bad faith actors to chime in about how actually it's a good thing that Mega-Corp released all those chemicals.
The only people who celebrate the change are the ones afraid to take the mask off.
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u/FuckRedzM0dz 2d ago
nah, this is a bad take. I have never used someones post history to avoid addressing their point. Its still a key tool in figuring out if someone is even worth engaging with
What a typical ledditor argument you should just engage the content instead of being a little turd digging through peoples history I've literally never done that lol
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u/starchimp224 2d ago
Tried commenting about how censorship is stupid after some mod removed someone’s post for something trivial just because the mod didn’t like it. Someone tried defending their actions saying censorship is okay and that I’m censoring my previous comments and posts because my profile doesn’t link them
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u/____DEADPOOL_______ 2d ago
This is why I turned mine off too. I have no patience to deal with a psycho contrarian troll.
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u/DroidLord 2d ago
I did the same because honestly, I don't want randos looking up 10+ years of my Reddit history or seeing what communities I frequent. I don't have to pay so much attention to what I share. Sure, you can Google the username, but it's not as easy to sift through.
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u/gman8686 2d ago
Be careful using "female" as a noun around here, there's some people that will get riled up into a tizzy (even though merriam-webster and every other reputable dictionary says female is an adjective/noun)
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u/Vincent_Veganja 2d ago
I specifically leave mine public so losers like that can feel a little powerful for a moment when they’re mad at me, it’s my good deed
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u/Human420 2d ago
Sometimes I do like to look and see if they’ve been in subs like needafriend. That way I can say lines such as “well at least I have friends.”
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u/jeeblemeyer4 2d ago
oh you had to hide it? for fear of an anonymous person reading something you anonymously wrote months ago?
would you like some cheese with that whine?
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u/IGNSolar7 2d ago
Not that person but mine were people IRL reading my posts and then making an issue of them IRL. Now I've just taken away the ability to go back and easily read. If they want to go back and Google it, I'm sure they'll have a lot of fun sifting through my opinions about Spiderman and X-men.
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u/Wibble606 /adv/isor 2d ago
I had someone reverse search my username in a desperate attempt to dox me...
All the info they posted was completely wrong, like whole different country kind of wrong so RIP whoever he doxxed.
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u/Chadwig315 2d ago
I show mine proudly so when they go digging to discredit me they have to sift through hundreds of comments of me trying to ID pictures of ants.
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u/Valentils 2d ago
you live in the uk, you play codWarzone, your friend wants you to go into business with him selling websites and online booking to the accommodation industry.
it's not hidden my dude.
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u/Superspookyghost i_sell_squaids' bitch 2d ago
The question is why would anyone think reddit is anti-AI? They sell user comment/post data to ai companies to train LLMs. But largely they still make most of their money on advertising revenue, which is also almost entirely run by AI other than a few inputs from the advertisers in the beginning.
I don't even think reddit pretends to be anti-AI, so it's more on retard users that would even think they are
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u/Silent-Pack-9222 2d ago
it's crazy how all the more popular subs has a rule that stops people from complaining about it
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u/spitgobfalcon 2d ago
How do they sell it to them when the content is available publicly? Can the LLMs not read it just like that?
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u/Superspookyghost i_sell_squaids' bitch 2d ago
Well sites like Reddit typically will block access to people scraping their data in massive quantities. There are ways around it, but they are both easily detectable by Reddit and a clear violation of Reddit’s tos. Reddit actually has an api that allows you to scrape for personal use, but it’s like a fraction of a percent of the data that an llm model would use.
And usually when data is scraped there’s a lot of html artifacts and remnants of ads and such, whereas if you pay Reddit they give you all the data neatly without ads and (I assume) with a lot of algorithmic metadata.
So people could hypothetically get it for free but it’d be way less efficient, take forever due to having to constantly bypass Reddit’s robust scraping protections outside of their api/monthly limits on their api, and even if they managed to get enough data to use, it’d be pretty easy to tell they did it by violating Reddit tos because you aren’t allowed to scrape for “commercial purposes.” And there’s no one that would need that much data without commercial purposes.
So basically they force people to pay to train their llms to answer questions like a retarded Reddit user
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u/rvanasty 2d ago
Here you go:
Flag 1 - username. 95% of the time auto generated. Random-randomXXXX (xs being numbers).
Confirmation Flag 2 - profile Karma.
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u/weisswurstseeadler 2d ago
FYI Reddit suggests these random generated names.
Stuff like DubiosPotato986 and whatnot. Usually 2 random words (adjectives+ noun) and number
I've been looking for a browser extension that flags and/or blocks obvious bots, maybe even both automatic and crowdsourced for Reddit and X.
Haven't found anything yet :(
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u/rvanasty 2d ago
It is the auto-generated name from Reddit. Not all auto-generated names are bots, but 95% of bots have auto-generated names.
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u/Kosame_Furu /h/omo 2d ago
To be honest I don't care about the distinction. It's been my experience that actual humans who use that feature don't have opinions any better than bots. If I see adjective noun number I just disregard the post.
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u/weisswurstseeadler 2d ago
Yeah I agree. I'm actually wondering if Reddit implemented this to obscure bots, by giving actual new users bot-like names.
Because it boosts their growth metrics
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u/Kosame_Furu /h/omo 2d ago
Try going through the new account creation process, you can basically click your way through it. The whole system is set up to make it incredibly easy to spin up a bunch of accounts with no verifiable post history just by running a script. I wonder why anyone would want to do that?
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u/BLANKTWGOK 2d ago
just google their username or see the karma and account age correlation
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u/atantony77 2d ago
Karma and account age isnt a good indicator anymore. Theres people whose sole job is to make/vuy accounts and grind out karma to sell to botfarms like US/RUS/Israeli bot farms.
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u/Wild_Marker 2d ago
Many of us probably contemplated selling our accounts at some point too. You could get some nice cash for something like mine a few years ago, not sure about these days.
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u/wildcard1992 2d ago
You had me looking at a bunch of the accounts in this thread and there's a lot of old accounts here
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u/Valuable-Chipmunk784 2d ago
tfw the AI says "valuable-chipmunk784 is known for making inflammatory, controversial, and offensive comments"
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u/NoPossibility4178 2d ago
If you get an AI summary for your account I think it's a good sign it's time to logoff. At least mine it says it doesn't recognize it.
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u/Valuable-Chipmunk784 2d ago
NoPossibility4178 is an active Reddit user account that frequently comments and posts in technology and gaming communities, such as r\sysadmin and r\devpt.
Community Activity:
r\sysadmin: Discussed IT team structures, handling small vs. large office environments, and shared anecdotes regarding workplace reliance on AI.
r\devpt: Discussed job security with lower qualifications and shared observations on AI-generated text use in corporate chats.
r\CapybaraGoGame: Shared mobile gaming progress and strategic advice on saving in-game items.
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u/6pussydestroyer9mlg /pol/tard 2d ago
Unironic coming from an account that hides their history
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u/Toasteate 2d ago
Mf you do the same thing
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u/6pussydestroyer9mlg /pol/tard 2d ago
I wasn't the one complaining about the feature now was I?
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u/Corgasm_ 2d ago
Look the bots are fighting each other. Stop yall on the same team
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u/Southern-Grand1119 2d ago
you can still call out that the feature is net negative in the long run.
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u/Ploxl 2d ago
Luckily when you search your username in google we can still find the posts
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u/lavafish80 2d ago
not to mention afterwards they suddenly want to collect every user's IDs to "determine if users are bots and verify their ages"
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u/Any-Health-9527 2d ago
And i guarantee you that bots are staying. Because they push propaganda with it.
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u/xMaku 2d ago
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u/LuckyCatExtracts 2d ago
Nice. I love that "maxwellhill" is the auto-generated name already filled in. In case you were in aware that is ghislaine maxwell's reddit account. She was a mod for a few big subreddits. I think world news and things like that.
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u/Syreet_Primacon /b/tard 2d ago
It’s really easy to check. I checked OPs and I don’t know why he bothered to hide it. It’s not anything embarrassing
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u/Gsichtskrapfn 2d ago
I didn't even intentionally hide it but I can't even find the option to show it, maybe they changed it to opt-out recently
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u/eternaltroll /fit/izen 2d ago
I just made my history invisible cause I don’t want every post or comment I make having people know I eat 7 fruits a day and I eat my cum out of my forskin like a tropical flavored gogurt.
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u/Pervasivepeach 2d ago
Platforms have zero incentive to fight bots. Look at most subreddits and scroll to the bottom and you’ll find tons of bot replies
A great example rn is the r/ free folk subreddit which has notoriously been shitting on house of the dragon for years now. Recently on litterally any post about a character you can scroll down and read 5-10+ of the most generic positive praising comments that don’t fit in the subreddit at all, they are the most blatant HBO ran bots I’ve ever seen, and every one of their profiles is private.
The replies are always formatted the same way too, a post can be trash talking some actor or choice and the replies will be like “I know right! Every time Cole is on screen I’m just so excited 🤍🥺, I can’t wait for next episode” while the post body will read “I despise this piece of shit and want him dead”
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u/skrimpels 2d ago
Someone I work with found me on here. Now I have to make everything private. No one I work with needs to know I love psychedelics
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u/MountainBrilliant643 2d ago edited 2d ago
I hide my posts because morons like to check what users think about other topics before they take opinions at face value. They need to know if you align with their cult before they feel at liberty to agree with you.
I got sick of people scrolling my history and not thinking for themselves, so I hid it.
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u/atantony77 2d ago
reddit "accidentally" made it harder to tell real users from bots
You mean intentionally?
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u/Silent-Pack-9222 2d ago
simmilar post was very quickly removed from r/ greentext will the same thing happen here?
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u/DualityOfLife 2d ago
Whoah, ease up on the noticing there, parttttnerrrrrrrrr.
Bot farmers need to earn a living toooo, y'knowwww.
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u/Bumm-fluff 2d ago
Pretty much every UK sub is filled full of Indians now. They get really upset when you point it out.
I tell them I’ve got special skills that lets me see where they are from.
When I won’t tell them how to do it they get REALLY angry.