User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: April 11, 2016/@comment-24258073-20160412053139/@comment-24258073-20160412081453

I know that. But this oddity doesn't occur to regular administrators, since the * does appear next to their name. Staff have actually been informed about it, and on at least one occasion, they did say that not having the * next to the Bureaucrat's name was not intentional.