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Blocking out the names but not the @s was certainly a choice. Or was the inanity part of a stealth advertising campaign where people point out the inanity and thus call attention to the @. The internet’s friggin weird.
Given how bad most name censoring is, I think most people doing it don't actually want to but also don't want to be accused of blatantly violating rules requiring it.
It's a pretty stupid rule to extend protections against doxxing to publicly visible usernames. They're already posting publicly with that name. Even with them blotted out, you can search for the text or reverse image search and find it in 2 seconds.
Yeah but 95% of people will be too lazy to do that and this will probably be enough to avert most brigading that might happen. I think this is about ad-hoc harassment campaigns more than doxxing which evokes more organized and focused harassment campaigns.
Typical default skin behavior
I've honestly never seen the point in blotting out people's handles unless they're saying some seriously incindiary stuff
Before I left Reddit it felt like almost every post that reached the front page had a typo or some dumb mistake or worst a title like "Which PC game is your favourite?!?".
It's not too bad here yet, but I have a feeling it's only a matter of time.
I just do it as a courtesy to the people as I'm usually making fun of them in forums they didn't originally post in. It's not like I'm thinking about it as being doxxing, more just that I'm poking fun at someone behind their back - if they're a public figure that's one thing - but the average Joe? Just feels impolite. That's why I do it anyway.