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2 years agoYeah, a big part of the appeal of reddit was being anonymous. I signed up without even using an email address, and being able to do that was a most of why I was willing to create my account in the first place.


Yeah, a big part of the appeal of reddit was being anonymous. I signed up without even using an email address, and being able to do that was a most of why I was willing to create my account in the first place.
Depends a lot on where you were posting.
/r/nfl was notorious for deleting posts from unknown users when new broke to repost it from a mod’s account. Had nothing to do with ban evasion or bots, just leveraging the control they had to make sure they had all the biggest posts.