Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that it was extremely forward thinking and an attempt to give you a particular test-case; it would be a good exception-handling check, or at least something to play with once you automate things.
If it would be LoyceBot posting, it would have ended up with an empty post, without username. But it's not LoyceBot posting, so it's just me.
I'm more and more thinking of just generating 20,000 merit histories each week, where you can click usernames to go to their profile. That would solve all my manual work, and it's much easier to use that way.
Don't be so Hobbesian, Loyce!
Lol, I had to look that one up