The fact that reddit enabled hiding your posts is crazy to me. In a time where knowing who's engaging in a community is more important than ever (am I talking to a bot or a troll?) reddit removes even more options to validate.
replyI interpreted that as an attempt to mask the number of bots on the site so as to not scare paying advertisers into thinking their ads won't be seen by real humans.
replyThey also now hide the number of subscribers. Before you could see if a subreddit was popular or not. Now you really don't know. I think reddit does this so they can promote stuff to the front page for clicks even if it isn't popular.
replyThe problem is that it has become very popular to ban people from a sub based on what other subs they post to. It was turning Reddit into a two-party universe.
replyThe better fix would be to make the support for multiple accounts in the reddit app not so incredibly-shitty, where you're basically logging out and logging back in. Instead, just tell it "posts to this sub use this account, posts to that sub use that account", etc.
That two-party universe thing comes from the issue of having to moderate, and moderation is ideological by nature.
replyI enabled hiding my posts because I kept getting harrassed and even doxxed.
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replyThere's also a third category where the sub looks organic because the moderator deletes and bans anyone who doesn't post exactly what the moderator wants.
replyWait isn't that every sub? /s
replyPlenty of good subs they are just under the radar. Once something gets more than about 10k users the quality sinks.
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