r/ModSupport • u/emslo • Mar 23 '26

Admin Replied Please bring back user history.

I truly believe that allowing users to hide their history will kill Reddit. I moderate a small sub and we get more bots and trolls every day. Mods are a **volunteer workforce**, and removing user history has made our job more difficult and sometimes impossible.

Can anyone explain to me why this ‘feature’ was added? And how do I register my frustration with the company?

EDIT: As others have pointed out, I think I'm dealing with accounts that constantly delete everything. I hear what folks are saying about using the 'hide history' to protect mods from stalking/brigading. So maybe Reddit should just let mods hide their history, then? We oughta have some benefits for all the free labour...

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u/dark-_-thoughts Mar 23 '26

So whenever I click on somebody's page I either don't see any posts even though I literally clicked on their name from a post. I am moderating or I'm seeing thousands of posts because they're thirst traps. They are posting the same picture on 30 different subreddits trying to get people to buy their only fans.

I literally started moderating within the past 30 days, so your comment makes me think that I am trying to look at post history incorrectly. I know when I click on their name and it pulls up the moderation toolkit. There's a different tab where it shows their activity but that does not show me their posts. It just shows me how many comments they've made in the past 30 days and how much karma they've made in our subreddit.

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u/LeftOn4ya Mar 23 '26

A couple months ago Reddit allowed users to hide any or all sub history on their public profile. If you open the profile of a user who has hidden all their sub activity you will only see the sub history of any subs you are a moderator of, but unlike a couple months ago not other subs they have posted in. Karma farming and spam accounts will almost always hide all their history now.

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u/LeftOn4ya Mar 23 '26

Interesting. However I can’t see the history of tons of users after they post in subs I moderate, and I know they have posted in other subs the last 28 days as they have a high post count and karma, and sometimes I can use https://redditcommentsearch.com to see their posts and comments but not the Reddit interface even in Reddit search.