Whose comment is this - messed up profile pictures, profile links, icons

[VeselinaPeykova]

Today I stumbled upon the following thread in Beta:

Can a question be closed ? - SAP Answers

Can you guess whose comments are these?

This is my profile picture, that is displayed in the comment, which is also a link to my profile, the Mentor's lemon is also from my profile.

The display name is Jeremy's, the link from the display name surprisingly leads me to a SAP Q&A page (the links from the other comments point correctly to member profiles).

These are not my comments, I haven't participated in the discussion at all.

If you are not logged on, this looks slightly different:

The icons are the right ones, the display link still leads to a wrong location, no profile picture to click on.

The same issue occurs in Firefox ESR 45.4.0, Pale Moon 26.5.0, IE 11.

[caroleighdeneen]

Hi Veselina, This had been reported and marked as fixed (SOC-3556). I just updated the ticket, referenced this tread, so it can be looked at again. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

[jcgood25]

Consider the visual imagery I provided earlier for whack a bug

[Steffi_Warnecke]

I noticed the same yesterday. The avatars where correct until I hit the "Show more comments" link and then they switched. See my comment here:

We noticed that you were previously working on a question - SAP Answers

[Johan_Hakkesteegt]

I have noticed a similar phenomenon on and off, where a profile picture will not match the name of the author. In all cases, leaving the page, and coming back, or a page refresh, fixed the issue.

However in this case I can reproduce the issue, except that it is now my picture in front of Jeremy Good's name:

Apparently this only happens to comments that are initially hidden, and that show up when pressing the "Show more Comments" button.

[jcgood25]

I think this is also not the first time the issue with random avatars getting confused (sometimes they don't even appear at all (like search results for a person's name - quite often you'll see the avatar next to a blog that they authored but not their actual profile).

[VeselinaPeykova]

Previously I encountered this only as a temporary issue (issue closed), which usually disappeared after page refresh, but not this one.

I am getting a bit confused lately when going through the known bugs list, because it is not always in sync with what was already reported and the bug reports are piling up.

I do my best to browse the recent discussions and check for something, but sometimes I either fail to search effectively, or, in the past few days, my discussions/comments appear with some delay.

[jcgood25]

Do they have this carnival game in your country? https://goo.gl/images/JWlmN7

I have often used this as an analogy for software development and bug fixes close to a release deadline.  Haste makes waste, but in most cases you can picture that no many how many moles (bugs) you fix (hammer), another one keeps popping up in a different area.

Your recent detailed screen captures and bug reporting efforts are amazing (in addition to the flood of table entries bearing your name in the and pages.

[engswee]

I reported something similar about incorrect avatars 4 months back but no idea if it's been fixed - haven't had time to retest it