When creating a post, on the Authoring options tab, there's a option:

Authored by:
Leave blank for Anonymous.

If I leave the field blank, the author is not set to anonymous but to the current user.

The default behaviour for the node/add page should be that the current user is saved as author, unless specific action is done to alter the author. The best solution for this would be a new checkbox at the Authoring tab to be able to differentiate between
a) Do the normal stuff: save as current user
b) Select another user or leave empty for Anonymous.

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dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

This is a duplicate of #492186: Authoring information is never updated..

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nvanhove commented

I separated these issues for the following reason:
This issue is that the UI is wrong.
The other issue is that the code doesn't follow the UI.

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dave reid
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Yes, it's a code problem that would be fixed in 492186. It doesn't work for changing node authors to anonymous or other users, it's the same code at fault.