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Removing this dot wouldn't make their lives any harder. A harasser can just send you nasty messages whether you are online or not. In which case you can block them. It's extra useless for a stalker, Reddit still has RSS remember?
The vast majority of people don't know about or use RSS, they use new reddit, and the indicator shows up to your name and comment when you're online now. So this is going to encourage ppl to harass others because they can see that they're online.
You don't deal with this by taking away features from people mate. You deal with this with A) Effective moderation B) Decentralization or C) Being picky about who you let in It's just a dot, it won't change anything. It takes more to remove a dot from profiles to deter stalkers and harassers. Harassers will just assume you are always online, and stalkers will figure out when you are online and when you are not by looking at your posts, comments and upvote/downvote history.
Help me understand, what are your reasons for having an online indicator?
Nothing, it's just a damn dot. It's worthless. I'm compeletely indifferent about it. There are a lot of things to hate on Reddit privacy wise, but this dot isn't one of these things.