Weird Question About Something On My Alerts

Snarf Zagyg

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So I just saw something I haven't seen before here... and despite my vast knowledge (and good looks, razor-ship wit, and well-known humility) I can't figure it out.

I had an alert that someone liked my post. Which, cool cool!

I didn't recognize the person, but I did notice that they had their name crossed out. Uh oh.

So my first thought was that they probably posted something they shouldn't have. But I looked, and didn't see anything? And then I thought, maybe they are a new user, and did something else?

So I checked their pop up stats, and I saw that (1) they had never ever posted anything here before (so it couldn't have been something they posted) but also (2) they had joined enworld in 2017.


I got nothing. So I haven't seen anything like this before, and I am not going to name the user (of course), and I would never comment on something like this except it's really weird. If it's something you can answer, I'd appreciate it. If not, I understand.
 

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Does this site let banned users login? Some banned user who’s browser still auto logs in when they visit to read, maybe had a momentary glitch allowing them to like, and tested? Or, some old account woke up, liked a couple things, then said something stupid and got post deleted and banned w/o comment because was one of THOSE posts.
 

Does this site let banned users login? Some banned user who’s browser still auto logs in when they visit to read, maybe had a momentary glitch allowing them to like, and tested? Or, some old account woke up, liked a couple things, then said something stupid and got post deleted and banned w/o comment because was one of THOSE posts.

Well, I took this off the public meta, and I learned that ... yeah, it was some weird kind of sleeper account. Seven years old, no posts.
 

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