• max
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    The random usernames apparently come from when you sign up using other social media accounts, like Twitter, google, Facebook. For the longest time I thought it was the indicator for a bot account. Turns out it’s an indicator for bots and new-ish users.

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      A favorite hobby of mine back in the day (i.e. before June) was to look up the post history of a poster with a randomized username which was recently created and reply “Welcome to Reddit! How has your first week/days/hours here been?” For some reason, simply noticing they had a new account was enough to get them to delete it.

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          1 year ago

          Some do that, but I was curious enough to open a few of those in a separate browser that is not logged in, and they still show up as deleted

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        Oh, that’s neat haha. Little bit evil maybe, unless they were spammers though ;)