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You're mostly right, but it wasn't just that they were pissed at Null. There was a hack that got info from DMs, and I think email addresses, and some users were afraid of their rl identities being exposed. Most of these were oldfag pre-2016 users from before when being a user of the site was a potential liability irl, so some people back then were a lot more loose with what they'd say about themselves in DMs, and were also more likely to use personal emails when signing up.It was a previous user account. There was some point in time a bunch of people were pissed at null about something so he briefly allowed people to delete accounts. Those people now show up as guest accounts. You can sometimes figure out who they were by looking at posts that quote their posts.
Also around this time, null only allowed account name changes if you paid him $20. After the data leak, he allowed anyone to change their name for free because of the above reasons and then just said fuck it and allowed anyone to change their name for free, with the catch being you can only do it once a month and give a valid reason as to why.
I just used it as an excuse to change usernames without paying.Imagine not just re-regging
All you have to do is find a post from the user that was quoted, the quoted posts show the original user name.LN 910 was 2odastream. When accounts got deleted, they were assigned these random strings as new usernames. So any time you see a post by LN 910, it was a 2odastream post.
It's pretty easy to match guests to old usernames if you know what to look for. The main things you can't do are see their old profile posts (they're completely gone as far as I know) or easily search post histories. Honestly it was kind of a pointless move, but whatever.
I've debated making a "match the guest account to the username" thread for the more prolific guest accounts, but that's a lot of effort for something that would probably just make me very unpopular.