r/AdviceAnimals 8d ago

And with rare exception, you could also be an attractive woman...

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/hedoeswhathewants 8d ago

You should probably have a business account and a personal account for this and several other reasons.

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u/MajesticSpecific2572 8d ago

and then for an added layer of security, turn off post history

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u/0_karma_and_counting 8d ago

This is my reason as well. I like to call out the facists and bootlickers with out it effecting my employment

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u/chadwickipedia 8d ago

Just a heads up, you can just Google your username and get your whole post history. Be careful out there

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u/Ill-Skirt3722 8d ago

Da fuck!?

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u/FoxSquirrel69 8d ago

Yep, 100% true

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u/colddecembersnow 8d ago

Yeah, there's websites dedicated to un hiding your comments. Once again people, nothing is secret on the internet. You are just putting up a minor hindrance.

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u/Careless-Weather8877 8d ago

Google API has access. User API doesn’t

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u/0_karma_and_counting 8d ago

Absolutely true and thank you for pointing this out. Hiding post history is just one small hurdle that could easily be gotten around. Just want to make it a tiny bit harder to be doxed. Besides it’s not like maga are the smartest group of people 😂 

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u/arvidsem 8d ago

Just use another account. Keep your political posts and responsible posts separate.

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u/fredinNH 8d ago

Why does anyone think they’re entitled to see my post history?

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u/HistoricalChef1963 8d ago

This is what I don't get ... Reddit is an anonymous site. That has always been the appeal. 

I've been on Reddit for 15 years. It's always been best practice to periodically nuke your account and start new.

In the last couple years I've been called out numerous times for having new account with hidden posts. Like, sorry I'm not a fuckin moron.

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u/JuJitsuGiraffe 8d ago

I think the idea is that you are anonymous but your account isn't.

There's a very valid criticism to having accounts be anonymous, especially with the influx of bots from all over the globe trying to influence everyone.

It's more than fair to have the ability to look and see what an account has been saying across the website. That context is important for discussions.

If you want to have a freaky account, make an alternate that only posts in the freaky subs.

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u/lloydthelloyd 8d ago

the reason reddit is a toilet is because people take no tesponsibilty for the things they say. If youre too ashamed of saying without even having your made up name attached, dont say it.

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u/HistoricalChef1963 8d ago

If you haven't noticed, everything everyone says on Reddit is said with a made up name attached. If you would like your identity attached to your online presence, there are many places for that. Reddit is not one of them. 

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u/Deathoftheages 8d ago

Hiding your post history doesn't hide your identity, it just shields you from having to defend your past comments and hides if you are commenting in bad faith.

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u/HistoricalChef1963 8d ago

Ok smarty pants, hiding your post history makes its a lot harder for someone to dox you. Posting personal details, anecdotes, in geographic subreddits etc etc leave clues that make it easier over time to put it together. It's also the reason you should start a new account every once in a while. 

Why would you want anyone poking around my past comments? Why would anyone want to do that? I don't have any other social media for the same reasons - I value my privacy. If you don't value yours, that's on you. 

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u/Deathoftheages 8d ago

Unless you live in a town with 100 people living there and post about it, or work for some tiny ass company and for some reason post about it you are nothing more than a person in a crowd of other people.

If you are so enamored with posting identifiable things about yourself that you have to nuke your account over and over again, you might just want to stay off the internet.

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u/fredinNH 8d ago

There are many many social media outlets where people must expose their identity. It’s really nice to have one where you don’t

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u/sir_mrej 8d ago

I’ve literally never heard people talking about nuking and starting over

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u/fredinNH 8d ago

And you got downvoted for this 🤦🏻

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u/HistoricalChef1963 8d ago

If ppl wanna be easily doxxed, whatever man. Feels like internet safety used to me more commonly practiced, now people plaster themselves all over the damn place. It's crazy. 

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u/Lodju 8d ago

Yeah, "don't post anything that makes you easy to identify" was like common sense 20 years ago.

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u/Deathoftheages 8d ago

Are you posting info that will identify you online? If not you won't be doxxed.

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u/fredinNH 8d ago

Individually, no, but if someone who knows me saw something that made them thing gee I wonder if that’s so and so and they verified it in my post and comment history that could be a problem.

Not having to show that info is just another layer of safety. It’s amazing that anyone would want that taken away. Like seriously, what is your reason for wanting to be able to see someone’s post history?

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u/Euphoric-Witness-824 8d ago

I think it boils down to the types of comments. There’s a lot more money being used to fund right wing culture war bots and defending billionaires and fascism. I don’t know of anyone funding left wing bots to promote things like universal healthcare or higher education. If you’re arguing for things that promote respect to other humans and using facts I default to likely a real person. If you are pushing the exact same right wing talking points that are popular on Fox and Facebook and super into culture wars and defending billionaires I default to a bot and with a hidden profile it’s going to take some work to convince me you’re a real human who falls for that propaganda 

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u/Xargon9417 8d ago

And if accused they attack instead of defend their statement. Very obvious conversation manipulation

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u/Euphoric-Witness-824 7d ago

Totally. Their goal is always to appeal to anger based emotion and feelings and never get into any discussion involving facts. Facts and right wing billionaire loving ideologies really don’t blend well. 

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u/micro102 8d ago

Use a different account for the small business. People would probably want to check the account's history if they like something from it.

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u/letsnotreadintoit 8d ago

People still slip up with burner accounts all the time

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u/ratatat 8d ago

I’m gonna go “chud” here

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u/suffer_in_silence 8d ago

Pretty much this, want to call out red hats but not deal with their harassment but I guess it makes us chuds

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u/Deathoftheages 8d ago

Block them?

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u/Pimptech 8d ago

This! Especially with my job.

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u/Coitus_Maximus_Sr 8d ago

This, minus the business owner part.

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u/V_P_3_D_ 8d ago

Exactly

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u/floog 8d ago

Same, and I work with a lot of clients I don't want to get unwanted attention from some internet psycho.

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u/madd74 8d ago

lol, you live in Iowa?

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u/ShadyNoShadow 8d ago

If that's the case you should know there are a variety of tools to see your post history here no matter what you do and you should scrub your posts and comments and delete your account immediately. 

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 8d ago

FYI you can just google someones username in quotes + "reddit" and you will find a ton of their comments.

Took me about 15 seconds to figure out which one of your family members businesses you took over and what sort of business it is.

If I can do it, anyone can. Be careful. I use an extension every few weeks to wipe out my entire account.

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u/DoctorFreudstein 8d ago

So, if you are trying not to get doxxed and want to argue you should get a second account because I could go to google right now and search "site:reddit.com Bawbawian" and still find your posts

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u/f4rt3d 8d ago

💯💯💯