Forum OpenACS Development: what is the purpose of automatically adding users to category tree?

I found a feature that has been in openacs since 5.1 or so, that inserts users into a category tree automatically and adds confusing information int he user-info page.

http://cvs.openacs.org/cvs/openacs-4/packages/acs-subsite/lib/user-info.tcl?rev=1.11.4.4&view=markup

I am not sure what this is for, but it shows up automatically if you have categories installed, whether or not you are interested in categorizing your users.This happens is a category tree is mapped to the subsite you are viewing.

I removed the code that shows the categories widget on the user-info page as it was showing a categorization for every group membership without any useful info.

I couldn't find a previous discussion on this feature.