Comment by firesteelrain
5 days ago
It’s not a bad thing. People on there, if you piss them off in a discussion, will go find your old posts and downvote them and in some rare cases harass you by replying or worse put two and two together to doxx you.
Not sure what you mean. They can still do all that even if the profile is set to private. It doesn't hide your posts and comments from Google. They are hoovered up just the same.
It’s slightly harder is what I mean. Takes more effort than clicking on profile and going thru comments
I see you've never accidentally really pissed someone off in a comments section about an inane topic.
I got e-mail blasted on my linked e-mail here for a user called u/Loughla on reddit (who has deleted their account now). It's not me. It was never me. But oooohhhh boy did they upset somebody in an anime subreddit.
In other words, angry people absolutely will go the extra mile just for some feeling of vindication or other nonsense.
Eh, for investigating scammers/bots it's a real pain in the ass.
Massive changes in posting history was a very good sign that an account was a farmed or stolen account.
Makes it a lot easier for reddit to deny their bot problem.