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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
At this point in time, you cannot see other people's online status (we wanted to give users a week long opportunity to opt-out before making this public). This is why you cannot see my online indicator.
Comment by BigGayBlackMan at 03/03/2021 at 19:36 UTC
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
No matter how many times you say this, that is NOT opting out. Making it so I have a week to change my status to: "Hiding" (Great name by the way, automatically has a negative connotation to it) still has me in the pool of presence status for everyone. This is not a good feature at all.
This makes it so much easier to harass people. To watch people's browsing habits. To annoy mods. If I can't make it that you can't even see a dot next to my name ever, I'm still opt-ed IN.
If this is to help small communities, they can all opt-in to make their small community better, not FORCE every user to hide if they don't want to show their status.
And finally, **this should be on r/announcements.** I only found this post because I didnt know what that random green dot was that said online when I moused over it and searched for it on r/blog and /r/announcements and tried /r/changelog as a last effort.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/03/2021 at 19:31 UTC
12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
You are giving the tiny, tiny subset of users that subscribe to this subreddit a week long opportunity to opt-out. If you want to give users, broadly, a week to opt-out, the literal least you could do is crosspost this to r/announcements to reach a wider audience.
Comment by MSJDCAK at 03/03/2021 at 19:28 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Right right, my mistake. Still a horrible idea though.
Comment by stesch at 03/03/2021 at 22:50 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This smells a bit like the Google Buzz disaster[1].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy
You cannot predict how certain users will get affected by this change.
Comment by LarryBeard at 04/03/2021 at 08:21 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
(we wanted to give users a week long opportunity to opt-out before making this public).
Nah you don't... You NEVER force that king of crap on people. NEVER.
Comment by shiverdog99 at 04/03/2021 at 14:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Haha, good one. If you wanted to announce it publicly, you'd post this in the announcements subreddit. That's what it's for. I only found this post because of a post on r/OutOfTheLoop. This is pretending to announce it so you have somewhere to refer to when people call you out on it.
Also, why the heck is it on by default? I can't think of a single person who wants that. Moderators don't want it. Admins certainly won't want it.
I don't want people to know when I'm online. I don't want people to know when I'm offline. I don't want people to know when I'm "hiding" (which is such a loaded statement and definitely intended to make people not want to use the feature) my online status.
This is hurting smaller communities. If a subreddit only has one or two moderators that are probably less active, people can just see when they're offline and break the rules then. Even if the moderators "hide" their status, it isn't hard for trolls to find random communities where the poor mods haven't yet *because* this feature wasn't announced.
I doubt that half the Reddit admins will have this feature enabled after the first month. After all, then people will know when they're offline and when they're just ignoring negative feedback.