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View submission: Announcing Online Presence Indicators
/u/spez /u/lift_ticket83 /u/KeyserSosa /u/Chtorrr /u/sodypop
I'm in this post and I **DON'T LIKE IT**.
Why are you adding more features for unscrupulous users to abuse and harass other users with? I echo what others have said below, this is not well thought out. This is a useless feature. I don't care who is online on reddit and I don't want people to know when I'm online on reddit. **If I want to engage with a user I'll leave them a comment**. Guess what, they get a PM (if they enabled it in options) about comment replies!
Do you see that? **OPT IN** feature for comment notifications, and **asynchronous communications**. It does not matter one iota to another redditor, or to me, that the person I am replying to is online right now, or not. It Does Not Matter.
You think this will 'drive engagement' or whatever the damn marketing term is, but you're wrong. You realize a lot of reddit users reddit at work? *(read as, slacking off not working , instead reading reddit)*. When this new presence icon, people will be able to see when I'm redditing. So I guess I'll have to stop keeping a reddit tab open and actually work occasionally. There goes the 'online user presence'.
Comment by [deleted] at 04/03/2021 at 16:47 UTC
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