In the American Parents pit thread of which I was the OP, and which I am still “watching” so I get sent email notices for all the posts, the emails for one poster all have an apparently unrelated title: “Not censoring Nazis is not a neutral stance, it is actively pr…” which is as much of it as will show. Everyone else says " via Straight Dope…"
Since the identify of the poster may matter to figuring this out, it is Mr. Dibble. Nothing against him, I’m sure, but I’d like to understand what is happening for future reference. Is it possibly his sig line (do we still have those)? It doesn’t show in the post itself, but I thought maybe the email is picking it up somehow.
On your profile, you have your Username and you also have a field that was not present on the old system, which is titled “Name”. On MrDibble’s profile, the Name field has been changed to the phrase you reference.
For most folks, the Name field contains your user name from vBulletin, which may be different from your name on Discourse if your user name contained any special characters that Discourse does not allow.
Moderators and Admins can edit the Username field, but I believe users can edit their own Name fields. If you can’t change it and you want it changed, contact me. I can definitely change it for you.
Whatever you put there shows up as a sort-of motto on your user profile when somebody else clicks your avatar. I don’t want to lose my “Charter Member” title, so I dumped my sorta-motto into the [Name] box.
I think it’d be fun if more of us did the same. Whether TPTB would think that fun may vary.
It could be fun, indeed, but there might be a learning curve for folks like me who didn’t recognize what it is, and might also generates lots of questions like mine when they get emails marked this way. I suppose it could be added to the FAQs, wherever they are.