Comment by Boston_Jason on 03/03/2021 at 19:26 UTC

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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators

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things like AMA’s, game day threads, or RPAN streaming

Reddit is nothing more than a forum. These are all asynchronous by definition.

Next lie?

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Comment by [deleted] at 03/03/2021 at 20:30 UTC

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I mean....... I don't like this new feature, and as a moderator, I've already opted out.

But I can see where it might be... very slightly nice on an AMA to see if the person is still online. Right now, I would typically look at the "last edited" time and see if there was a "well, this has been great" sort of edit.

If I wasn't a mod, this wouldn't bother me so much. But having to opt out - and as a mod, any mod is surely going to want to opt out to minimize harrassment and people thinking they're in the clear to shit up a subreddit - is probably the only truly annoying bit.

I might or might not opt out if I wasn't a mod.

I can understand why they want to do these things - to increase engagement and therefore value to investors and advertisers and therefore keep the doors open and make profits.

Still annoying.

But I'm not sure I'd call that list completely a *lie*, either. :shrug:

Comment by PoglaTheGrate at 04/03/2021 at 01:55 UTC

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Next lie?

This benefits users in any way?

This was a requested feature?