# Anonymize user quotes keeps username

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymize-user-quotes-keeps-username/60281>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 1, 2017, 12:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymize-user-quotes-keeps-username/60281 "2017-04-01T12:33:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymize-user-quotes-keeps-username/60281/2 "2017-04-01T19:57:50Z")

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It has always worked this way, the replace would be very expensive.

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