What is this weird practice of account anonymization? What's the purpose of this? Does it come from Danbooru?
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What is this weird practice of account anonymization? What's the purpose of this? Does it come from Danbooru?
maimaimai said:
What is this weird practice of account anonymization? What's the purpose of this? Does it come from Danbooru?
They're deleted users, not anonymous.
Lopi999 said:
They're deleted users, not anonymous.
More specifically, they're deactivated, which is as close to account deletion you can get in the modern day. I'm going to guess the account name is changed to relinquish the name in case another user wishes to claim it; while retaining information related to the original users' contributions to the site.