Tagged Questions

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Is the ability to register 2 accounts with the same username a bug?

I registered 2 accounts with the exact same username at sf answers by mistake with 2 different emails. This is something we wouldn't want, wouldn't you agree? Thanks.
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Is there a multi-site purchase discount?

I'm interested in opening at least couple of accounts for two different websites. Is there a discount for multi-account purchases? Thanks.
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Allow deletion of account to free up OpenID to add to another account

Use case: I create my account with an OpenID http://www.google.com/profiles/myprofilename I go to login and click the Google icon for its OpenID It asks me if I want to create a …
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Is it possible to import accounts?

Would it be possible to import accounts into StackExchange? We would like to tie the accounts with the rest of our network, which revolves around vBulletin. Is this possible by a …
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How can I bring the authentication and authorization pieces of my StackExchange site under the administrative control of my existing main site?

I'm looking for a way to integrate a Q&A forum into my website, and stackexchange could be perfect for this. However, I want the user experience to be integrated into the rest …
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Allow unregistered users to retrieve orphaned cookie-based accounts

Amidst the ongoing discomfort with OpenID it seems many of us had forgotten about the 'cookie account' used by anonymous/unregistered users. These accounts are created when an unre …
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2answers
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Integrated login options?

Hi all - I run a commercial site with an existing user management / registration system. I want to avoid having my users create and maintain two separate accounts (one with my mai …
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Are spider scrapes counted in the million pageviews?

As Jeff has often pointed out on the StackOverflow podcast, Google racks up a lot of pageviews. Will hits from Google/Bing/Yahoo's spiders get counted against the "billable pagevi …
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Will there be account association between SE or meta-SE and the SO-family sites?

Will the StackExchange sites or the Meta-StackExchange site have the ability to associate accounts with other SE or SO sites?
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How can I associate my meta.stackexchange.com user with my stackoverflow.com user?

I have an Open ID and used it to create my user on stackoverflow.com. Then I came over to meta.stackexchange.com. When creating a user here, I was in too much of a hurry and didn't …
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How will pageview caps be enforced?

Scott's question on orphan communities got me thinking about a related question. I didn't ask earlier because it's an edge-condition problem that I imagine isn't likely to come up. …
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How is Fog Creek going to handle orphaned communities?

Let's say once StackExchange is out of beta, someone signs up for the 45 day trial, gets a small community going, and maybe runs it for 3 to 6 months and eventually decides that th …