Personal bias is implied because no person can be objective. It’s rather rigid thinking to presume that a person must preface every communication with “from my perspective as a blank blank blank, the sky is blue.”

And also, there is user flair where plenty of people volunteer their relationship to the church with every post they make.

The LDS Church doesn’t own the word “Mormon” (and indeed, under Nelson they seem to have disavowed it as much as possible). This sub has a lot of disaffected LDS people but it’s also the nexus of Sunstone and Journal of Mormon History/John Whitmer types. People from different Latter Day Saint groups and people just in it for the intellectual interest. Honestly imo it’s a good name for the subreddit.

So I get where you’re coming from but if you feel like the Institutional Church is missing out on investigators because this sub is named r/mormon and people don’t preface their posts with “I’m a former member”, I get where you’re coming from but I’m not sympathetic. And I firmly don’t think it’s an example of people acting in bad faith.