Don’t wonder, it’s obvious. When you turn on the light you see the cockroaches. Any transparency changes incentives. Look how the dynamics have changed overnight. Next, Twitter has to do something about the rage engagement payola.

Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.

> Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.

All social platforms of the last decade rely on "engagement" and bots/trolls/fake accounts/etc contribute to that, both directly and in terms of posting inflammatory content that the masses then "engage" with.

> Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.

This was a common-ish feature for a long time and major sites like 4chan have had it in one form or another I think for literally decades at this point.

Maybe because it is so easy to fake, that putting that signal on there lends undue credence to it.

In six months they'll make hiding your location a feature of the paid subscription.

Well, a hidden location would be a signal too

Could become an in group signal, essential creating so much noise the signal is no longer valuable

one can imagine the influencers saying they X is lying or I fear for my safety and them the whole bandwagon joining in

I think it’s obvious these kinds of accounts were for engagement. Happy to see grifter accounts from two bit locales exposed for what they are.