Woops, that's not good. I suppose we always suspected this would come back to bite us, but perhaps not so spectacularly.

Showing fake users on audits is non-ideal, because it creates an easy way to quickly detect audits: Does the display name look fake? Even if not, does clicking the display name bring me to a real user profile?

We just pushed a change (that will go live shortly) that will hopefully alleviate the problem:

Once the audit is passed/failed, then we'll always show the edit as having been created by the Community User.

But while a suggested edit audit is still reviewable, the behavior is unchanged – an unsuspecting user is randomly selected and displayed as the proposer of the edit.

Woops, that's not good. I suppose we always suspected this would come back to bite us, but perhaps not so spectacularly.

Showing fake users on audits is non-ideal, because it creates an easy way to quickly detect audits: Does the display name look fake? Even if not, does clicking the display name bring me to a real user profile?

We just pushed a change (that will go live shortly) that will hopefully alleviate the problem:

Once the audit is passed/failed, then we'll always show the edit as having been created by the Community User.

But while a suggested edit audit is still reviewable, the behavior is unchanged – an unsuspecting user is randomly selected and displayed as the proposer of the edit.