Self-deleted posts by deleted users don't show "deleted by owner"

Question

I just stumbled upon this post^{10k on Gaming}, which confused me a bit, at first.

So, who is this mysterious fellow with the unlinked name? A ninja? A community moderator who fell from grace somehow?

As it turns out, that was just the poster's display name before they had their account deleted.

Having a denormalized display name, but not for deletions, seems a bit weird. Shouldn't it say

here?

Another example for those with 10k on Stack Overflow.

Flagging to reopen since the dupe was deleted for some reason, anyway one important thing it cause is privacy issue: sometimes when user choose to delete his account he does not want any trace to the old display name to remain. — Shadow Wizard, Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 13:52
So, if it's a privacy issue, then it should say 'deleted by owner'. Both problems solved! — RobH, Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 16:55

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:30:28Z

8

+100

Fixed in the 2013.7.17.854 release. This post:

state before update

has the same issue and can be used for verification as soon as the build rolls out to meta sites:

CommunityBot

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answered Jul 16, 2013 at 17:21

m0saMod

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So, status-completed?
– ben is uǝq backwards
Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 18:00
I'll retag after we push it out
– m0sa Mod
Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 18:05
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Close, but no cigar - still showing in the revisions list. :-/
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 20:34
Fixed that one too
– m0sa Mod
Commented Jul 17, 2013 at 8:38
Nice, thanks a bunch! :)
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Jul 17, 2013 at 8:48
Seems broken (again?)
– Daniel Beck
Commented Dec 25, 2013 at 23:56

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