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I use a subreddit as an anonymous random user where I keep up with what's going on, chime in with quips, and generally engaged in the community about a certain topic. The subreddit has invited me, the known person and influencer, to do a Q&A at this subreddit. They don't know that I use the subreddit as an anonymous random user - they just emailed me, the known person, and asked if I wanted to do a Q&A. Can I do this without them finding out about my anonymous username? I don't engage in the subreddit anonymously to promote myself or do anything unethical - it's just nice to discuss the subject I'm passionate about without it being attached to me, who is a known influencer/expert in that field with a curated brand.
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Reddit seems to say no, the mods cannot see IPs.
All I can tell you is that it is super common and expected to create a new user acccount for this: FamousPersonNameOfficial-AMA. Then you upload a photo to imgur of yourself holding the username written on a card.
Then everyone knows it’s you, and that account is either used rarely for official presence or abandoned.
I can’t think of why they would screen your official account IP against all users in the sub, even if they could. But for the hell of it you could do your official accout through a proxy and then it wouldn’t matter even if they can see all IPs.
posted by SaltySalticid at 9:02 AM on April 25, 2019 [2 favorites]
All I can tell you is that it is super common and expected to create a new user acccount for this: FamousPersonNameOfficial-AMA. Then you upload a photo to imgur of yourself holding the username written on a card.
Then everyone knows it’s you, and that account is either used rarely for official presence or abandoned.
I can’t think of why they would screen your official account IP against all users in the sub, even if they could. But for the hell of it you could do your official accout through a proxy and then it wouldn’t matter even if they can see all IPs.
posted by SaltySalticid at 9:02 AM on April 25, 2019 [2 favorites]
Subreddit mods can't see IP addresses, but the overall Reddit admins can, which they use to enforce the site-wide rules. In theory, they'd have no reason to look at your IPs unless one of your accounts got reported for something that subreddit mods can't handle.
If it bothers you a lot, you can use a free VPN just to participate in the AMA, which would obscure your 'known person' account's IP address.
posted by tobascodagama at 9:04 AM on April 25, 2019
If it bothers you a lot, you can use a free VPN just to participate in the AMA, which would obscure your 'known person' account's IP address.
posted by tobascodagama at 9:04 AM on April 25, 2019
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Ex-mod of a 600k user subreddit and we had no tools to do what you ask. Nothing.
In tracking trolls, shills and their many alt accounts what we did have was time to read over their posts/comments. If they always posted in response to certain other posts, that would stand out. Their use of language also revealed them - the same phrases, comment style.
Reddit mods have zero useful tools from the admins. While in our sub's case that was mildly annoying at times it makes perfect sense when you consider the toxic subs and their admins.
So you'll be fine.
(Oh yes - the image you upload to prove it's you? DO use imgur. Do NOT just upload it to some other place. Imgur will strip exif data, random other site might not and that will expose you).
posted by episodic at 9:24 AM on April 25, 2019 [10 favorites]
In tracking trolls, shills and their many alt accounts what we did have was time to read over their posts/comments. If they always posted in response to certain other posts, that would stand out. Their use of language also revealed them - the same phrases, comment style.
Reddit mods have zero useful tools from the admins. While in our sub's case that was mildly annoying at times it makes perfect sense when you consider the toxic subs and their admins.
So you'll be fine.
(Oh yes - the image you upload to prove it's you? DO use imgur. Do NOT just upload it to some other place. Imgur will strip exif data, random other site might not and that will expose you).
posted by episodic at 9:24 AM on April 25, 2019 [10 favorites]
The main unethical thing you could potentially be doing is using your anonymous account to upvote your main account, and/or vice versa. Doing so can be detected by admins and can result in an account ban.
Other don'ts:
* don't use one account to talk to the other in public comments; aside from being a circlejerk, it can be seen as an artificial attempt to get upvotes
* don't use your public-famous-person account to mention that you have an active private-anonymous-person account; you don't want to challenge a bunch of reddit nerds with the task of finding who that might be. At most, you may acknowledge, if it comes up, that you've used reddit in the past, which is a lie of omission but a true fact on its face.
* don't ask people to ask you questions about 'Rampart,' the 2011 Woody Harrelson movie. They didn't like it when Woody asked people to do that in his AMA, and they won't like it if you do it.
General advice: Be sure to sort by Controversial at some point, and by New at some point, to catch the odder questions and the late-comers. And be ready to face the big question, about horse-sized duck or duck-sized horses.
posted by Sunburnt at 12:18 PM on April 25, 2019 [3 favorites]
Other don'ts:
* don't use one account to talk to the other in public comments; aside from being a circlejerk, it can be seen as an artificial attempt to get upvotes
* don't use your public-famous-person account to mention that you have an active private-anonymous-person account; you don't want to challenge a bunch of reddit nerds with the task of finding who that might be. At most, you may acknowledge, if it comes up, that you've used reddit in the past, which is a lie of omission but a true fact on its face.
* don't ask people to ask you questions about 'Rampart,' the 2011 Woody Harrelson movie. They didn't like it when Woody asked people to do that in his AMA, and they won't like it if you do it.
General advice: Be sure to sort by Controversial at some point, and by New at some point, to catch the odder questions and the late-comers. And be ready to face the big question, about horse-sized duck or duck-sized horses.
posted by Sunburnt at 12:18 PM on April 25, 2019 [3 favorites]
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