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I work with the Stack Overflow API and found something strange. Following are the steps to reproduce:

Is this a bug or normal behavior whose condition to occur I don't know?

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  • FWIW, I don't think this belongs on meta, as it's a programming problem involving an API that happens to be hosted on SO.
    – user160254
    Oct 21, 2011 at 4:10

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That's because that answer doesn't have an owner anymore:

Showing the answer with grayed out author information

This can have the following reasons:

  • The account was deleted for some reason.
  • The answer was disassociated from the account for some reason.
  • The question was migrated from another site and the user doesn't have an account on the target site (obviously not in this case).
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  • Does this not break the Attribution part of the license?
    – Rawling
    Oct 21, 2011 at 11:21
  • @Rawling: Interesting question. Maybe you want to ask that as separate question, because this raises very interesting thoughts. Oct 21, 2011 at 11:28
  • I'll give it a shot.
    – Rawling
    Oct 21, 2011 at 11:44

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