> “I'm curious why you went into my posting history -- do you do that for every post?” Someone did that for one of my comments recently. It was a strange feeli

> “I'm curious why you went into my posting history -- do you do that for every post?” Someone did that for one of my comments recently. It was a strange feeling, having been raised in the ‘New Criticism’ tradition. I guess they had doubts of my motives, and believed the “shortcut” to answer their concern was to survey my past work to look for more examples of the negative pattern they feared.