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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
I'm thinking it's a cue for *some kind* of conversation, but mostly things like "I can see you're online! Why aren't you replying to me you coward!"
This setting makes the platform worse for me, and should be opt-in either way.
Comment by Blagbycoercion at 03/03/2021 at 20:42 UTC
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Pretty much this. It'll just be used for ammo in ARGUMENTS...
"I SEE THEY ARE ONLINE BUT THEY AREN'T COMMENTING! WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THEM? THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO REBUTTAL!"
This will be used against users by other users. Does Reddit care? Most likely not, but they'll pretend to care about harassment while implementing new avenues for users to be harassed.