Reddit users can now hide posts, comments, and NSFW history

Reddit has a caller privateness diagnostic that gives users much power implicit the contented that appears connected their idiosyncratic profiles. The update announced by Reddit connected Tuesday present allows users to selectively fell posts and comments from subreddits they enactment successful alternatively of having each their activities exposed to anyone who clicks connected their profiles.

That setting, which has helped thrust Reddit’s estimation for being an unfastened platform, volition stay the default option, leaving each nationalist posting and remark past disposable connected profiles unless the idiosyncratic decides to curate it. Many users often make “throwaway” accounts to debar being identified, fixed however easy different radical could exposure delicate accusation and embarrassing behaviour wrong their station and remark past — with sometimes viral attention.

A fistful of caller customization options are rolling retired and tin beryllium accessed nether the “curate your profile” tab successful the settings menu. These see “content and activities” settings that fell each nationalist posts and comments, including those made straight connected idiosyncratic profiles, oregon selectively fell posts and comments made successful circumstantial subreddit communities. There’s besides a “NSFW” toggle that hides posts and comments successful subreddits that are flagged arsenic NSFW.

Users cannot prime idiosyncratic comments oregon posts to fell from their profiles. These settings besides won’t fell comments oregon posts successful the subreddits successful which they were published.

The privateness settings see immoderate carveouts for assemblage moderators, who often request to reappraisal idiosyncratic profiles earlier taking enactment against accounts. Mods volition person afloat entree to a user’s illustration for 28 days aft they post, comment, nonstop modmail, petition to beryllium an approved poster, oregon petition to articulation a backstage subreddit. A user’s chosen visibility mounting volition beryllium honored aft 28 days, but that timer volition beryllium reset if they interact with the subreddit again.

Reddit is apt introducing these changes to promote radical to prosecute with the level without utilizing throwaway accounts — thing that makes it harder to cod engagement and involvement information for idiosyncratic users, fixed its post-IPO absorption connected ads and AI training. Judging by the comments connected Reddit’s FAQ thread, however, immoderate radical are apprehensive astir the privateness features.

“This seems similar it’s going to pb to atrocious actors being capable to much easy fell their behaviour from the mean user,” one idiosyncratic commented. “Unless you’re a mod, you won’t beryllium capable to spot that they’re posting inflammatory misinformation crossed a twelve antithetic subs, for instance. Less transparency isn’t good.”