LW2 developer here. I consider it a bug that it’s possible to continue ot comment through a deactivated account. I don’t consider it a bug that comments made through a deactivated account can be associated with the account name, since (in the normal case where an account never posts again after it’s been deactivated) the same information is also easily retrieved from archive.org/.is/etc. (And I can think of a dozen easy ways to do it, some of which would be a pain to close off.)
(The officially supported mechanism for anonymous posting is to just make a new single-use account, and don’t attach a real email address to it. We do not enforce accounts having working emails, though new accounts will show up in moderator UI when they first post.)
LW2 developer here. I consider it a bug that it’s possible to continue ot comment through a deactivated account. I don’t consider it a bug that comments made through a deactivated account can be associated with the account name, since (in the normal case where an account never posts again after it’s been deactivated) the same information is also easily retrieved from archive.org/.is/etc. (And I can think of a dozen easy ways to do it, some of which would be a pain to close off.)
(The officially supported mechanism for anonymous posting is to just make a new single-use account, and don’t attach a real email address to it. We do not enforce accounts having working emails, though new accounts will show up in moderator UI when they first post.)