Reddit now lets users hide their post and comment history. The change was framed as a privacy upgrade. “Reddit on Tuesday announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what’s shared on their user profiles.” https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/reddit-now-lets-you-hide-content-like-posts-and-comments-from-your-user-profile/
But the rollout timing and feature design suggest something else. The new setting hides all public posts and comments, including those made directly on user profiles. https://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-now-hide-your-reddit-posts-and-comments-from-your-profile/
Moderators can still see full history for 28 days. After that, the trail goes cold. https://www.neowin.net/news/you-can-now-hide-your-reddit-posts-and-comments-from-your-profile/
Reddit also removed the exact account creation date from profiles. That detail isn’t in the press release. But users noticed it vanished. Bot accounts are often created in bulk, same day, same minute. Removing the timestamp makes batch detection harder.
Post vs comment karma was merged. No announcement and explanation. Bots tend to farm post karma. Real users rack up comment karma. The split made bot patterns obvious. Now it’s gone.