IIRC, a patch was made (in late July?) to automagically create scratchpads when users were created. Previously, users had to specifically click on a link to create their pad. (So I believe that users created prior to a certain date who did not explicitly create a pad will display as Xaositect does, at least as of the time of this writing.)

And IIDRC, I am sure another pmdevil will correct me. ;-)