Someone explain this to me.

If you are so worried about it, buy vip or get gerry to buy it for you.

VIP gives you both the ability to see who visited your profile ... along with the ability to hide your own visits to anyone else's profile, if they also happen to have VIP ... which just cancels out half the feature, but I suppose does eliminate some pointless distraction and drama ... and puts everyone back onto the same level playing field they were on ... before getting VIP. VIP is a perverse SW construct, a grasping-at-straws attempt to monetize the site.

VIP is a strange SW blend of things that are free on any other social media, mixed with pointless distraction that can beget manufactured drama which in turn becomes fodder for a litany of posts in lieu of other more meaningful posts, which you do not see on any other social media (perhaps because it's pointless.

It's clear some people here are willing to pay for VIP, so the admins could just chuck the pretense of rolling added benefits to VIP and just make it more like a Wikipedia donor / supporter transaction, and eliminate the drama while putting the free features back on par with most other mainstream social media (as well as ditch the ads, particularly now that AI slop and phishing links are becoming more commonplace in the ads themselves, and this presents a danger).

Some people just enjoy being sneaky just for the sake of being sneaky, I guess.

some people with vip just like to lurk undetected i guess