Saw lately something strange, the user alanst moved and locked this topic from Development & Technical Discussion to Beginners & Help, but he is not the creator of the topic so I just wonder, is he a patroller? Can they move topics I know that they can delete posts.
Maybe you're just mistaking it badly, we can still conclude that he also owns the account that started the Thread, he may have a new account that has a Copper Membership and one that hasn't. So maybe he really is the one who moved the thread and locked that.
And as far as I know, there isn't such thing as patroller here, Only Mods/Staffs can do such things as deleting/moving/locking threads except for the owner of the Thread.
Edited:
Upon looking on the threads he started, I think he just did that for some reason like to remind the audience (that is looking for a certain thread in an old place where it has to be) that it wasn't there anymore.
No, I'm not mistaken here. You cannot lock or move someone's post if you don't have the permission and those who have the permission are the staff/mods and it looks like the patrollers too.
You're most certainly not mistaken here.
Accounts that move threads leave a redirection without increasing post count or activity count (like this one has done).
I reckon that use is theymos or cyrus having a go at fiddling with user permissions so that it looks like they're right all along about there being enough mods (by secretely adding some more).
The only other way this could possibly be done is if the redirection thread was created by that user and either theymos had a stroke, intentionally moved the topic over to be owned by anohter user, there was a database error, that user used some sort of sql injection in order to bypass a database security section and change the ownership of a thread temporarily to themselves and give it back after they had done the change or that account is theymos' account.
Whichever of these you think it most likeely is then maybe it is. I wouldn't be surprised if it was theymos but I also wouldn't be surprised ifit was SMF being its regular faulty self
.