If someone make their profile hidden, all profiles should be hidden from them.

[Rockets]

If they are hiding in the dark, let them be in the dark imo.

Some guy with a hidden profile spent an hour posting cringy stuff on my screenshots.
My public content is for decent people not literally hiding wimpy trolls.

Maybe I don't understand why they hide their profiles.

[K13Cove]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

Maybe I don't understand why they hide their profiles.

Trolling, usually. Most private profiles are trolls, spammers, or sockpuppet accounts. They like to jump on other people's profiles and target them for whatever content is on it, but they're too spineless to show their own.

If there are any private profiles that aren't made for disruptive purposes, they're few and far between. Anyway, I'd just block whoever attacks your profile, because I can (in theory) see how a small amount of users may just make their profile private just because they don't want to socialise in any form.

[Aachen]

Private is the default.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Create alt account, make it public, profit.

[76561198407601200]

Ursprungligen skrivet av cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Create alt account, make it public, profit.

:qr:

This is the side effect of someone's logic going as far as their nose and failing to see the faults of their suggestion. As a side note it doesn't seem their suggestion is for what they are claiming and is mainly due to the fact that when debating someone they can't see their profile to attempt to disprove them.

Cases in point
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1361210/discussions/0/3761104049336218013/?ctp=3#c3761104049336603231

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3758852249518349190/?ctp=2#c3758852249518765075

[Gwarsbane]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

If they are hiding in the dark, let them be in the dark imo.

Some guy with a hidden profile spent an hour posting cringy stuff on my screenshots.
My public content is for decent people not literally hiding wimpy trolls.

Maybe I don't understand why they hide their profiles.

Well since you don't like people with private profiles you should kick anyone off your friends list that has a friends only or private profile because obviously they are up to no good right?

Make your profile friends only or private if you don't want people with friends only or private accounts commenting on your stuff.

Because there are lots of easy ways around what you want... sign in under another account in a browser and leave that account public. Or just not sign in on a browser and see if there is anything. Make their account public, post on it, and then make it private again....

So if you don't want people with private accounts from posting on your stuff... make your account friends only/private but as mentioned people will still be able to find your stuff easily.

[loppantorkel]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

If they are hiding in the dark, let them be in the dark imo.

Some guy with a hidden profile spent an hour posting cringy stuff on my screenshots.
My public content is for decent people not literally hiding wimpy trolls.

Maybe I don't understand why they hide their profiles.

You obviously have good point and a decent suggestion, but instead of 'penalizing' people with private profiles, imo a better solution would be to give the users a 'semi-friend' option in the privacy settings - "Public profile for public users" (Private for the private). No penalizing, just another privacy option.

[[N]ebsun]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

If they are hiding in the dark, let them be in the dark imo.

Some guy with a hidden profile spent an hour posting cringy stuff on my screenshots.
My public content is for decent people not literally hiding wimpy trolls.

Public content is for the public - for everyone. If you don't want everyone to see it, don't make it public....

If I have my profile set to private, anyone who wants to set theirs public or private is their own choice - my choice is to have mine private, so if you choose to have yours public, that's fine - but by definition everyone will be able to see it.

[Tito Shivan]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

If someone make their profile hidden, all profiles should be hidden from them

And they only need a incognito browser tab to render your restriction useless.

Welcome to realising the definition of making something PUBLIC

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

If they are hiding in the dark, let them be in the dark imo.

Ironically It's you the one in the dark, not them.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

My public content is for decent people not literally hiding wimpy trolls.

Your PUBLIC content is PUBLIC.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

Maybe I don't understand why they hide their profiles.

Maybe they think their content is for decent people only. And they actively restrict it to whoever they deem decent.

Or maybe because their profile is none of your business.

[Supafly]

Thats like saying if they close their curtains so people can't see in everyones curtains should be closed so they can't see in.

They may not like everything being visible but if YOU do thats fine. If you don't want them to see your profile hide it completely with private or make it friends only

[Lily McFluffy Butt]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Badass Rockets:

If they are hiding in the dark, let them be in the dark imo.

Some guy with a hidden profile spent an hour posting cringy stuff on my screenshots.
My public content is for decent people not literally hiding wimpy trolls.

Maybe I don't understand why they hide their profiles.

It's called blocking. You can block people from commenting. Your suggestion is completely nonsensical.