Reddit will let you hide posts, comments and NSFW activity from your public profile

Reddit will now allow its users to do something it never before has permitted: to selectively "curate" their public-facing profiles by hiding some of their posting and commenting activity from other users. Up to now, Reddit has included users' full commenting and posting activity in profiles. So while most users are anonymous, others could easily check out their post history and see what communities they're active in. The feature, which many users see as a key part of Reddit's openness, has helped Redditors ferret out trolling, lying and numerous other types of bad (or merely embarrassing ) behavior on the platform. With the update, however, Reddit users will be able to "curate" their profile. The additional control will allow people to hide all their public posts and comments from their profile or hide public posts and comments in specific subreddits from their profiles. There is also a "NSFW" toggle, which would hide posts and comments in NSFW subreddits. The setting won't hide a c ... Read full article.