The second someone wastes their time in your post history you’ve already won
Sometimes you see a wild political take on Lemmy and you open their profile and see them praising Russia and China.
Whats wrong with chinese food? Is it not suculant and delicious?
You don’t even need to open their history – you just look at their instance. I love Lemmy.
I don’t know if I’d go that far. It’s one of the easiest ways to identify troll behavior. Sure going through and analyzing every post is insane, but being able to click on someone’s history and see that oh they say stupid stuff for reactions regularly is pretty helpful. I’d also argue that it’s helpful when people are making intellectually dishonest arguments when they have ulterior motives. Racist dog whistles for instance, when someone makes an argument that’s a pretty obvious dog whistle and then claims they’re just asking questions the Post history can sometimes help cut through that nonsense.
I feel like most of those accounts with hidden history are bots
Bots or nazis. It’s real convenient that we can’t see the posts they make on /r/GenZFourthReich or whatever
I had mine hidden because you say one controversial thing in the wrong community and they’re digging for dirt in comments from years ago.
The option to hide post history here would be nice, but the culture here isn’t one that encourages users to dig through each others post history anyway.
speak for yourself. been here two years and i have had multiple people stalk my history and quote me about shit i said in unrelated communities to prove how ‘evil’ i was. shit’s wild.
almost always out of context, but when you are a hammer everything looks like nails.
I don’t understand how that’s supposed to work, you’d have to have posted some bad takes, and even if you did, “hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled” isn’t going to turn anyone against you.
It really only affects people who don’t stand behind their words.
“hey I made the wrong call based off what I believed at the time, I now understand where I was misled”
This would never work. It actually would 100% lead to being mass downvoted. Not just reddit, but here too.
exactly. I wonder sometimes at comments. People seem to have limited experience with other people here, and are overly optimistic about how reasonable and kind people are… they are not. especially not in a social media setting.
Some of it too is differing audiences/communities. You might tell a joke in front of your poker bros that you wouldn’t tell in front of your kids … and there’s nothing wrong with that.
and for some folks the fact you pay poker or have kids make you irredeemably horrible person.
They did this to hide the bots in AI. It’s BS.
makes it ripe for scams and disinformation
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
You can search the username and their history will come up though.
History hidden from one’s Reddit profile is now hidden from
author:Reddit searches as well. This was not originally the case.
