# 2026 Nonsuch Rendezvous - Pre-event Survey

**URL:** <https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2026-nonsuch-rendezvous-pre-event-survey/9898>\
**Category:** Newsgroups Archive Prior to 2025\
**Created:** [May 5, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2026-nonsuch-rendezvous-pre-event-survey/9898 "2025-05-05T01:37:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/n26_115_233/original/1X/39e3f8ffb93f4278d654ae38d831066e407d616b.jpeg) [@system](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2026-nonsuch-rendezvous-pre-event-survey/9898/1 "2025-05-05T01:37:37Z")

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Who is David Young and why is his name preceding most posts on Discourse Google mirror for Nonsuch posts?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/n26_115_233/original/1X/39e3f8ffb93f4278d654ae38d831066e407d616b.jpeg) [@system](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://nonsuch.discourse.group/t/2026-nonsuch-rendezvous-pre-event-survey/9898/2 "2025-05-05T03:29:19Z")

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Near as I can figure -

There is some programming in Discourse that kicks in when you say a user account “mirrors a mailing list” the way our Google Mirror does. That programming tries to untangle the stream of the conversation that makes up a post. It looks like it successfully pulls off the latest post (on top) but then at times something further down in the post screws things up. Background - Discourse creates “staged” usernames for the INA.Google users and attributes the post to them. Generally gets it right. David’s username (from a posting a couple of months ago) was in there as “\_David\_Young…etc.” and the leading underscore sorted his username to the top. When things got messed up, it ended up picking the first username. (my best guess at this point)

I have a hunch as to what is messing things up - but want to see if I can test it out.

Sorry about this. I corrected David’s staged username, but that might just mean the mistaken attribution will move to the next person. We will see.

Jon