Missing tie in signatures of comments

Question

There is something a bit wrong with the comment formatting; it seems to be like this now:

\interpretCommentMarkdown{#1} - \userLink{#2}

But it should be more like this:

\interpretCommentMarkdown{#1} -~\userLink{#2}

That is, there should be a "tie" between the hyphen and the link to the commenter's profile, so that we don't see things like this:

Answer 1

This question never received an official answer, but it seems clear from Anna Lear's revision that this is status-bydesign; that is, expected behavior.