How in the… what the what? What is going on here?
Maybe a user who liked a post and then was later deleted (or self-deleted). The forum software may on purpose still want to show that the post had X number of likes, but some may be from former users. I’ve seen that on a lot of software, especially stuff used in the enterprise.
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I would agree with your initial guess, but whoever this is has been actively liking my posts all afternoon here. So, they’re definitely not deleted. Or… if they are, they’re still somehow able to interact with the forum? I’m not quite sure what to make of it…
For example, I just wrote this reply 26 minutes ago, and there is a fresh “like” from this user:
Maybe their username is “(unknown/deleted user)” 
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LOL 
If I look at that post, I can see it was liked by leebase, and he definitely still exists… seems like a bug? Time to throw more memory at the VM :D
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It was a reply to Lee, but it was only liked by @DissidentYinzer and the “unknown user”.
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Oh, yeah… now that I actually went and looked at the actual post, I see it as being liked by leebase as well. Its not us @gmgauthier, its you.
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Only The Shadow Gnows what users lurk in the dark woke ness of netherland! 
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Weird 
Maybe a user who liked a post and then was later deleted (or self-deleted). The forum software may on purpose still want to show that the post had X number of likes, but some may be from former users. I’ve seen that on a lot of software, especially stuff used in the enterprise.
Yes. Enterprise software is usually made with some web framework like Ruby on Rails or Meteor.
Discourse is made with Ruby on Rails:
Same bug is also in WeKan Open Source kanban, that is made with Meteor: