only helps bots and morons

Nope. I had to turn off my history recently. I mod for a few gaming related subs, and I’m also active in the new mods subreddit, which the Reddit admins are also somewhat active in.

Had to remove a guys comment for being belligerent, and he threw a fit over it, demanding it be reinstated or threatening to “take over” the sub. He eventually got himself banned, and switched to several alts and started making posts about how I was clueless because I was active in the new mods sub, and was trying to rally people against me and the other mods. He got all of his alts banned from the sub, too, and I think he got perma banned site wide for ban evasion.

Not the first time something like that has happened either. The playerbase for that game as a whole is toxic as hell, and will use the most minor difference to invalidate someone else’s comment. There were a few times I’ve tried to warn people, or at least inform them of possible repercussions for modifying the game, referencing the terms of service, and for some reason, people disagree with that fact as if it were a personal opinion. They’d look at post and comment history, and say shit like “you play X Y Z characters, of course you’d be wrong”.

Even outside of the subs I moderate for, but within similar gaming communities, or even science communities, I’ve had people get over the top butthurt because I disproved their claims with facts, bringing links and citing sources, and it bruises their ego to the point they check my post history and see I’m active in several groups for high iq or gifted individuals. they’ve followed me to those subs, even on alts, and tried to bash me for “thinking I was high iq” or some shit (despite me having taken multiple proctored tests. Oh well.)

The change doesn’t just help bots and morons, it prevents people from other forms of harassment. When you’re talking with people that refuse to argue in good faith, they will literally turn any information against you in whatever way they can. If they can’t engage with the comment or opinion on its own, and have to pull information from you personally from outside the conversation, they probably aren’t that confident in their own argument, but are too stubborn and egotistical to change their mind, so they resort to embarrassment to force the other part to disengage, so they’re left as the only person in the thread and win by default.

And the fact that you have such a problem with this change makes me wonder if you’re the kind of person who looks through history when you disagree with someone… shame.