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Re:X begins rolling out 'About this account' location featur... by hbarka on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:59PM (#46025760)
Don’t wonder, it’s obvious. When you turn on the light you see the cockroaches. Any transparency changes incentives. Look how the dynamics have changed overnight. Next, Twitter has to do something about the rage engagement payola.

Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.

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Re:X begins rolling out 'About this account' location featur... by karlgkk on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:51PM (#46026710)
> Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.

This was a common-ish feature for a long time and major sites like 4chan have had it in one form or another I think for literally decades at this point.

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Re:X begins rolling out 'About this account' location featur... by Nextgrid on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:23PM (#46026468)
> Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.

All social platforms of the last decade rely on "engagement" and bots/trolls/fake accounts/etc contribute to that, both directly and in terms of posting inflammatory content that the masses then "engage" with.

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Re:X begins rolling out 'About this account' location featur... by IncreasePosts on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:50PM (#46027693)
Maybe because it is so easy to fake, that putting that signal on there lends undue credence to it.
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