[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] After self-deletion of a user, make the username random but still clickable (Issue #4194)

[Hungerburg]

For the general issue here, there exists a work-around. OSMCha can filter for uids. It is trivial to get at the uid from a changeset.

If having any public audit trail is against the GDPR, openstreetmap has to close down immediately or stop making committer uids public.

On the special circumstances behind this issue - an essay on social matters:

The person behind that plethora of user accounts is very well known in the Austrian community. A year or so ago a livetime ban was handed out to him by a DWG member. Rationale: His mappings aimed too much at how beautiful Austria looks in OSM-Carto, rather than what is on the ground. This was so obvious, that all his weasel words would not change the mind of the community, that looked at the facts. The local community as a whole did not agree with his take on what openstreetmap is about and the DWG obliged.

The person is addicted to mapping though. A while after the block he started again using various accounts, I guess to not show on top of Neis charts. (He was always leading there for years and very proud of that.) Some time this year he learned to delete his accounts to make his activity ever more unavailable to scrutiny. He became much bolder through this.

Of note: How to tell, it is the same person? The style is quite peculiar, especially the fervour. On the future: There is tiny evidence he changed habits, but likely not in a degree amenable to the community. With him "underground" and wrapped in GDPR Kevlar things certainly did not become easier.

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