I find it odd that in the list of Active Questions, the name of the person is the last one who replied/edited/commented on the question. However when you open the question, you see the real author + last editor:
However, the very same question in the “list” looks like this:
This is awful, because it gives the reader the impresion that I wrote that question, which in this case belongs to Mr. Sam Day.
As someone who has editing permission on the site, I am constantly fixing small typos and formatting errors, but this makes my name appear in the front page all the time. (note: the site is apple.se, but I’m sure this is the same for others).
update: Let me put it in another way. I go to apple.se.com and I see this:
In both cases it looks like I asked the questions mainly because the second one doesn’t have any answer yet has a “name”.
In my opinion, it’s not clear and it should say or show both names.