alt Hacker NewsComment and post history is still trivial to find through a basic google query.
All that hiding them on Reddit does is pissing other users off because it breaks establish site's norms and expectations.
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firesteelrain • today at 8:33 AM
It’s not a bad thing. People on there, if you piss them off in a discussion, will go find your old posts and downvote them and in some rare cases harass you by replying or worse put two and two together to doxx you.
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True, the only option is to not use the site entirely.