Re:YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private foru...
by asheroth on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:34PM
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At the very least on Reddit it would give me context on whether someone is asking a question in good faith or not. I live in a relatively liberal city, so there's regularly people who drop in to try to ask pointed questions in an attempt to bait people into responding a certain way, so I can know whether to ignore or try to respond in a helpful manner.
Why do you look through other people's profiles? I just don't understand the appeal in the first place. I like Hacker News' 14 day newbie green text, but even if it didn't exist I have never cared enough about someone's posts to try and gather any kind of intel on them, or see if they are fresh accounts, or what have you. The only time I've used people's profile info here is to find contact info to send them something, usually on request.
The whole <6 months thing just seems like old school SomethingAwful style behavior, where regdates operate on a punch-down style system.