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Subtle change to hide link to non-existent deleted user profiles [duplicate]
Closed as duplicate by Monica Cellio on Feb 26, 2024 at 13:38
This question has been addressed elsewhere. See: Link associated with a deleted username, in a comment thread, redirects to the top of the current page. #1089
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When?
When looking at search results, or list of posts in general - for e.g. viewing list of posts tagged [wikipedia].
Here's a screenshot of the mentioned example:
What?
The text displayed says
posted 2y ago by deleted user · edited 2y ago by deleted user
Even if the user is deleted, the "username" points to https://meta.codidact.com/categories/3/tags/6176#, which is just a # added to the URL.
If the user is deleted and there is no profile to be linked to, then why not just remove the hyperlink (When there isn't a profile to link to)?
Why?
Obviously, this is a very subtle change that would probably only save 0.1th of a second - in a situation where a real user decides to change their username to "deleted user" - and a person can just see whether that's a real user named like so or an actual deleted user by just looking if there's a link or not.
If this isn't a low-effort thing to implement then this may be declined. But I just wanted to put this idea for voting. What are your thoughts?
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