# Topic owner wrongly labeled

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-owner-wrongly-labeled/212876>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [December 22, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-owner-wrongly-labeled/212876 "2021-12-22T09:03:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![littleviolette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@littleviolette](https://meta.discourse.org/u/littleviolette)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-owner-wrongly-labeled/212876/1 "2021-12-22T09:03:59Z")

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I have only encountered this bug once and was wondering what the issue may be. This particular thread mis-applies the `topic-owner` class to the second poster, instead of the original poster.

> **[Wrangler 392 spin off - ordering, configs, flips, etc](https://forum.leasehackr.com/t/wrangler-392-spin-off-ordering-configs-flips-etc/396022)**
>
> Non 4XE topic then. Still worth it to get the 392 after the MSRP increases? The 35” Bronze wheels have me feeling a certain way haha.

Here is the code for the second post:

```plaintext
<div class="topic-post clearfix topic-owner group-brokers regular">
<article id="post_2"...>...</article>

```

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-owner-wrongly-labeled/212876/2 "2021-12-22T11:41:28Z")

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🤔 My guess would be it came from the result of a split. kellstar hasn’t really created the topic, [Matt has](https://forum.leasehackr.com/t/how-to-get-a-good-wrangler-4xe-deal-buckle-up-for-a-long-read-part-1/365962/9336).  
What puzzle me is why Mike the second poster became the topic owner…  
It might have been a transitory thing since I cannot repro this on latest. I tested a split of two posts from two different users (beside the third admin one), the first post landed as the owner of the topic.

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**Author:** ![littleviolette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@littleviolette](https://meta.discourse.org/u/littleviolette)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2021, 3:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-owner-wrongly-labeled/212876/3 "2021-12-24T03:32:23Z")

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Ah thank you for looking into this. This is a good guess! It’s no big deal but I thought I would flag this bug to the Discourse team.