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Question asked by anonymous reveal real identity after some time

Bug #1276997 reported by Stefano Maffulli
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
OpenStack Community Project
Fix Committed
Low
Evgeny Fadeev

Bug Description

While investigating bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1276392 I noticed that the author of question https://ask.openstack.org/en/question/11405/how-to-add-more-nodes-to-an-installation/ changed from Anonymous to Govardhan. I took a screenshot of the question before the author changed (see attachment).

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Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli) wrote :
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Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev) wrote :

Are we sure that the user did not himself opened his name on the post?

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Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli) wrote :

The question had no edits when I edited it. Could he change the authorship from Anonymous to not without editing the question?

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Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev) wrote :

I've found source of this issue - the anonymity is determined based on the anonymity of the original post - not based on the anonymity of the edit.

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Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev) wrote :

This specific post was added openly and then edited by Stef anonymosly and the anonymity of his edit was not displayed.

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Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli) wrote :

Evgeny: the question shows 2 revisions, the initial version and my 2. revision.

The issue is not that my name is shown after my edit. The issue is that the question was asked anonymously and *after* my edit, the name of the asker was revealed to the world.

I don't think this is good behavior: if someone wants to be anonymous, the question should stay anonymous even after it's edited by anyone but the original author.

Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)
Changed in openstack-community:
status: New → Confirmed
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Stefano Maffulli (smaffulli) wrote :

Just found out that others are seeing this on askbot.org http://askbot.org/en/question/12545/bug-anonymous-questions-are-revealed-by-administrator-edit-of-question/

Changed in openstack-community:
importance: Undecided → Low
Evgeny Fadeev (evgeny-fadeev)
Changed in openstack-community:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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