diff --git a/web/templates/memory.html b/web/templates/memory.html
index 0e54d1dbc37fc212dbe0a5b46d01d1d6cb5f6e9b..ed0feb48869ec7f721ea853e9148ddff8574cf8d 100644
--- a/web/templates/memory.html
+++ b/web/templates/memory.html
@@ -94,9 +94,16 @@   <header class="mem-head">
     <h3 class="mem-slug"><a href="/~{{$.Repo.OwnerName}}/{{$.Repo.Name}}/view/memory?key={{.Slug | urlquery}}">{{.Slug}}</a></h3>
     {{if .Stale}}<span class="mem-stale" title="Older than 60 days &mdash; worth a look. Some memories are meant to be permanent.">stale?</span>{{end}}
     <span class="mem-rev">
+      {{/* The revision's author is deliberately not shown. bd's embedded Dolt
+           commits are all authored "root <root@%>" — verified against the
+           sourcehut-artifacts tracker, where every one of the nine memories
+           rendered "· root" — and the human is recorded only in the commit
+           message ("bd: close (auto-commit) by Eugene Blikh"), and not even in
+           every message. A column that says "root" nine times out of nine is
+           noise; the commit page behind the hash carries whatever the message
+           does say. */}}
       {{with .Revision}}written <span title="{{.Date | abstime}}">{{.Date | agoDays}}</span>
       &middot; <a href="/~{{$.Repo.OwnerName}}/{{$.Repo.Name}}/commit/{{.Commit}}"><code>{{.Commit | shortsha}}</code></a>
-      {{- if .Author}} &middot; {{.Author}}{{end}}
       {{- else}}written before the last {{$.Data.WalkMax}} commits{{end}}
     </span>
   </header>