# Guest names not showing up
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-names-not-showing-up/236208
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**Created:** [March 24, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-names-not-showing-up/236208 "2004-03-24T22:24:02Z")
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-names-not-showing-up/236208/1 "2004-03-24T22:24:02Z")
But only in this thread: [Abraham Lincoln was gay?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=5147)
In the event it’s just my medication wearing off, [here is a screen shot](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/attrayant/screenshot.GIF) of what I see. As you can see, it says “guest” but does not display the guest’s name. Guest names show up just fine in a few other theads I’ve checked.
I’m not going to lose any sleep over it, just thought the powers that be might want to know.
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### Author:  [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-names-not-showing-up/236208/2 "2004-03-24T23:05:01Z")
Note the date of the OP. Somebody replied to a very old thread. As you’ll probably remember now, the missing names happened during one of the previous conversions. I don’t recall the exact reason.
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### Author:  [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2004, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guest-names-not-showing-up/236208/3 "2004-03-25T09:04:31Z")
Check it out: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=246963](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=246963)