Yup, poor information. The key to understanding reptiles is, humid and dry. Which is what they prefer in nature.
Oddly that is a hard concept for people to understand.
Oddly again, people do not want to understand it.
Even water snakes and gardersnakes, get water blisters if kept wet. Which is not humid, its wet.

If folks wanted to understand it, they would ask questions instead of believing a simple out of context statement.
The fact is, its not about humidity or high humidity, its about water loss. As in, how much is evaporating and leaving the cage. This varies with temps, type of cage and if its heated or not. and to what degree its heated.
Simple put, if you put a container of water in your cage, a lid with lots of small holes in it, and measure how much water is lost daily, weekly, monthly, it will in many cases scare you.
If you have very little loss, then theres no problem, but if your losing amounts equal to the volume of the snake, its a real problem. If you take that container and make the sides in once levels, you will get a great idea as to how much water is being evaporated. Then consider, that is happening to your snake.
The reality and what Dan dismisses is, Snakes control water loss in nature to a very small degree, the reason is, water is precious in most cases. Particularly for hogs which occur in super draining soils(doesn't puddle) Anything more then what is within their natural limits, causes long tern chronic issues, Extreme dehydration causes immediate destructive health issues. In the middle is easy, in the middle. Build up of uric acid crystals in the kidneys and urethra.

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