Comment by fede01_8 on 13/12/2019 at 13:36 UTC

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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta

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why would you do that? something to hide?

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Comment by ncnotebook at 28/12/2019 at 00:31 UTC

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something to hide?

My guess is to prevent their comments/posts from potentially linking to their real lives, even if /u/SausageTaxi does innocuous stuff. Given enough activity and time, you could probably learn a lot about redditors. You may even learn their first name, where they live, their age, their occupation, their income, their race, their hobbies, their living situations, actual real life events, their pet names, etc.

You can learn a lot from that whole picture. What if somebody recognizes certain details and want to confirm this person? etc etc etc

Comment by pylori at 13/12/2019 at 13:59 UTC

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So they have something to complain about.