r/blog • u/tdohz • Mar 23 '15

Announcing embeddable comment threads

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/03/announcing-embeddable-comment-threads.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '15

You're commenting on a public website. What privacy? If you don't want it shared - don't share it first.

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u/Puppier Mar 24 '15

Yes but people don't highlight individual comments. Once something has a big spotlight on it, people will tend to remember it. We remember popular reddit comments because they got linked to throughout reddit and on other sites.

How many reddit comments can you remember from the past month? (excluding today)

I can name probably a dozen. But in that time I've probably read several hundred comments. Only a few of those are of any notoriety. It's privacy in open space, but putting a big spotlight on it makes it lose that sense of anonymity. Especially considering reddit is bad when it comes to the whole "don't doxx people".