"Former Member" bug or feature?

[Jelena]

Usually we see "Former Member" in the old content, so I didn't expect to see a question posted 6 hours ago with "Former Member" as an author:

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The first comment addresses the OP by name. OP's profile is a clickable link and leads to what looks like a valid profile but with Former Member name.

Did someone actually put "Former Member" as their profile name? (Should this be disallowed?) For the "formerized" folks there is not supposed to be a connection between the content and profile AFAIK.

[coleti]

I thought "Former Member" appear for those who didn´t allow the public profile to be displayed. It happens after they applied the EEA data protection laws: https://www.sap.com/about/legal/privacy.html. But now, I am not sure lol.

[patelyogesh · Accepted solution]

What I see is user selected name as Former Member!!!

See below

[Jelena · Accepted solution]

LOL. 🙂 I'm really curious what was their train of thought on this. But that's another question.

Thanks for a reply!

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

Just a form of protest for "formemberisation" 🙂