51 upvotes, 11 direct replies (showing 11)
View submission: How to keep your Reddit account safe
No, this isn't in response to anything. We have been planning to get a post like this out for a little while now.
Comment by GraharG at 06/05/2019 at 20:18 UTC
24 upvotes, 4 direct replies
hi kinda tangential but during the April fool event there was a member of your staff giving out life advice. If you know who I mean could you let them know they are a cool person?
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I know that's not much to go on, but I figure if you call the wrong member of staff a cool person its not the end of the world
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p.s. i also appreciate you looking out for security
Comment by jonloovox at 06/05/2019 at 17:23 UTC
36 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Since you are an admin, am I allowed to kiss you for EMOTIONAL security?
Comment by Taste_the__Rainbow at 06/05/2019 at 17:27 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is just as comforting as NASA being all “ASTEROIDS HIT PLANETS GUYS” all week.
Comment by Okichah at 06/05/2019 at 20:16 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I have gotten multiple fishing attempts in my dm. Is there a way to report these accounts on mobile?
Comment by [deleted] at 07/05/2019 at 04:06 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Since you guys still permanently store the IP address during account creation, can you please consider hashing it instead? That should still play nicely with your anti-spam controls.
I'm guessing the other reason you store our IP addresses during account creation is because you want to gather geolocation statistics, but that can still be done with any given IP before you hash it right?
Reddit is one of the most popular websites globally. I feel this extra security measure would take a lot of weight off our shoulders.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/05/2019 at 21:02 UTC
1 upvotes, 7 direct replies
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Comment by IBiteYou at 06/05/2019 at 23:43 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
So have you had issues or have you been just rolling through accounts telling people to redo things?
Because...
A couple of weeks ago, I think, I got the ..."there's suspicious activity on your account so redo everything..." message.
Only, there was no suspicious activity on my account.
So, of course, I went to my established email... which I use and you have and I reset my password and all that jazz.
And then a week later...boom..."please relog into reddit"...and so I got my NEW password and relogged into reddit.
But it was rather out of the blue that I got locked out of my account for suspicious activity. I was in the middle of submitting some things.
And when I looked at the account activity link you gave me, no suspicious activity.
Do you just do this once in awhile...(every six years) to keep people on their feet?
Comment by kyiami_ at 07/05/2019 at 03:39 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I was force-logged out before I saw this post, and got pretty scared.
Comment by TqRaUnMoPn at 06/05/2019 at 20:50 UTC
0 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Lies. Why bullshit us?
It's not like any big media outlets are gonna call you out. You'd threaten a blacklist and none of their bots would be able to astroturf anymore.
Comment by kju at 06/05/2019 at 19:21 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
i really like the feature you guys put in where if you type in your password in a comment it shows up with asterisks instead of showing the password
'*******'
works perfectly!
Comment by redditadminsaregay1 at 07/05/2019 at 13:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
hi