Question about anonymized usernames

[acesoftheace (Acesoftheace.kenwei)]

Is this user also anonymized since he has the “anon”

[ondrej]

… Yes users who begin with anon seem pretty anonymized to me. Its a genreral pattern

[Mittineague]

@acesoftheace

since he has the “anon”

I suppose there might be a remote possibility that a member gave themselves such a username, as unlikely as that would be.

If in doubt, look for an “@example.com” email address.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

@Mittineague

If in doubt, look for an “@example.com” email address.

Are you sure about that? Pretty sure anonymized users have a @anonymized.invalid email address.

[Mittineague]

@jomaxro

Are you sure about that?

Not 100% I’m going by what I know (obsolete or otherwise ) and have not recently retested this on localhost i.e. this account anonymized 2 years ago

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Yeah, that very likely changed with all the updates to anonymization. .invalid is a domain we use for emails that should never be emailed. Yes, no one will receive emails sent to example.com, but better to not send them at all.

[Mittineague]

Ah yes, this account was anonymized summer 2018

I’m assuming that running some type of (pseudo)
“UPDATE email SET email '/1@anonymized.invalid' WHERE email LIKE '%@example.com'”

query could be a good idea. If anyone has run such a command with success I would appreciate knowing what it was.