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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
The intent of this feature is to drive greater engagement amongst our users and encourage more posts and comments across the site. We believe Online Presence Indicators could be beneficial to some of our communities where we see more real-time discussions unfolding (r/CasualConversation or r/caps) and to our smaller communities where some users may be hesitant to post or comment because they’re unsure whether or not there are active users within the community.
Based on what? Who came to you and said *"I would post more if I could see an ocean of green dots next to usernames"*? Who came to you and said *"Our community is dying and if there were little green dots we think it'd come back to life?"* Did you do some kind of survey or research? What questions did you ask? What were the results?
Because in all honesty, the fact that you're going with opt-out instead of opt-in says very clearly to me that you are being disingenuous. If you really thought that users wanted this, I think you wouldn't be tricking them into having it enabled by default and hiding this announcement in a sub that almost nobody reads. And that makes me feel like your explanation of intent is just post hoc PR and not the real reason.
There's nothing here!