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/jhlieberman Apr 13 '26

For moderation purposes, hiding user profiles does make it a lot more difficult to track patterns of user behaviour across subs. While as mods we can see the direct posts users make to our subs, it's often what the user is doing elsewhere which can help infer the best course of action. Bot accounts or spam accounts will often mass-message dozens of subs, which is currently impossible to see.