A post made on a public forum is public information. I’ve used post history to figure out if someone was serious vs telling a joke that fell flat or for weird patterns.
So what? These are public comments. If you don’t want your comments to haunt you for a prior bad take, maybe don’t have bad takes or alternatively, explain them.
If you’re saying you put personal information there, one layer of obfuscation wouldn’t stop someone motivated from finding information. This only stops people using profiles as intended.
It’s not necessarily bad takes it can be someone with an obsession trawling your history for oblique personal details or whatever. may only be a deterrent to tech illiterate stalkers but better than nothing imo
Opt in or out makes no difference for its affects on being able to discern where someones opinions are coming from. “Just evaluate the arguments themselves” means trolls insta-win.
Idk people used my reddit post trails to be creepy little bitches back in the day.
But then how would you check if someone is a disingenuous troll, or a hypocrite, etc, it’s the usual privacy vs open information trade off
The only thing on the UX manager’s mind, when considering this decision, was “engagement.”
Nothing else is even in their same universe.
A post made on a public forum is public information. I’ve used post history to figure out if someone was serious vs telling a joke that fell flat or for weird patterns.
Eh. If a webcrawer took a snapshot, they could just be indexed anyways. Its false sense of security.
Just like upvote/downvotes on Lemmy. Btw its all public lemvotes.org
So what? These are public comments. If you don’t want your comments to haunt you for a prior bad take, maybe don’t have bad takes or alternatively, explain them.
If you’re saying you put personal information there, one layer of obfuscation wouldn’t stop someone motivated from finding information. This only stops people using profiles as intended.
I’ve got a take for you, drop dead cunt.
It’s not necessarily bad takes it can be someone with an obsession trawling your history for oblique personal details or whatever. may only be a deterrent to tech illiterate stalkers but better than nothing imo
This sounds an awful lot like “think of the [irrelevant group used for leverage such as terrorists or babies]” arguments.
This largely has not been a problem, and so to loose something much more important for it seems absurd to me.
I mean it’s also opt-in. If you’re feeling civic minded you can just leave it on
Opt in or out makes no difference for its affects on being able to discern where someones opinions are coming from. “Just evaluate the arguments themselves” means trolls insta-win.