Comment by bakonydraco on 03/03/2021 at 21:00 UTC

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I would have significant worries for 2 groups in particular:

• Users who routinely get harassed by other users. This is a problem that plagues all social media but that affects Reddit in particular. I could see engagement going considerably down for people who get spammed the second they come online. I feel like there could be a very negative gendered aspect to this too.
• Mod teams. It completely changes the expectations on the team if there's a live status indicator next to every mod on the team, in a way that seems a significant negative. I don't see this as compatible with a volunteer mod team that Reddit depends on.

Overall, any feature that compromises privacy in any way should be 100% opt in, and I don't think this was thought through before pushing live.

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Comment by cyanocittaetprocyon at 03/03/2021 at 22:38 UTC

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I don't think this was thought through before pushing live.

This stuff is never thought through before they make it live. They activate something, then see how the community accepts it.

Comment by PoglaTheGrate at 04/03/2021 at 05:10 UTC

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I don't think this was thought through before pushing live.

As opposed to what other changes Reddit has done in the past three years?