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While I am reviewing some first posts and answers of new users in StackOverFlow, I came across with this strange answer. It is posted by a supposed to be a "new user" but with 1493 reputations with more than 20 badges. Is this possible or it is a bug?

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UPDATE:

I encountered this yesterday(on Philippine Standard Time), I am a bit busy at work yesterday so I couldn't post it. Here is the full screen shot.

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    And he's been a member for 3 years, 10 months.
    – Geobits
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:27
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    I suspect that the user merged accounts after having posted the answer. Not 100% on this though. It may also have been a review audit although without seeing the question, I can't say.
    – Ren
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:28
  • @Ren, if it was like that, then there should be two S.O. account listed here , but as it is showing only one, i dont think he has merge his account. A moderator can answer this better i think
    – Lucifer
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:32
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    Sometimes I think I encounter Late Answers appearing in the First Post review queue. Is it possible Patrick has never answered any questions before today? That would qualify it as a "First answer" as the screenshot dictates.
    – JoshDM
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:33
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    @Lucifer - we would never show multiple users in the list there (that doesn't exist at any point in time). That being said, this user has never been merged.
    – Nick Craver
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:34
  • @NickCraver , agree but sometimes that list shows it, i have seen it my self in past
    – Lucifer
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:35
  • @Lucifer - that's not possible...there's a unique constraints on account to site relations at 2 separate levels, in code and in the DB
    – Nick Craver
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:41
  • @NickCraver, few months back somebody has posted a question regarding this matter. The list was showing two s.o. accounts there because there was some merging problem created.
    – Lucifer
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:43
  • Most likely review audit; guess you clicked "Skip"? In such case, we can never know for sure. :/
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:52
  • @ShaWizDowArd No I didn't skipped, I pressed the "No Action Needed".
    – Ariel Magbanua
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:53
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    I cannot locate this post at all. Google certainly cannot find anything with those phrases on Stack Overflow. Was it deleted?
    – Martijn Pieters
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:53
  • I think it is deleted by the user. As I remember it has a lot of down votes I think.
    – Ariel Magbanua
    Mar 14, 2013 at 15:54
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    Strange, your screenshot is from 3/13 and says "2 hours ago", however the actual answer (10K only) was posted on 2/16 and deleted 2/17. Furthermore, the stats on the side are wrong. "other answers: 0" when a 2nd one was posted 12 minutes after the 1st one, "asked: 24 days ago" and "active: 24 days ago" by the question stats, but "answered: today" by the answer stats. It looks like it was a review audit
    – Rachel
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:14
  • @Rachel I encountered this one yesterday but I am too busy at that time that I couldn't post it.
    – Ariel Magbanua
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:15
  • @Rachel, agree, that answer was deleted by Will♦ Feb 17 at 5:21
    – Lucifer
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:24

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There's nothing wrong here, you can see the user by clicking their name and navigating to the badges tab in their profile. Most badges (ones awarded for a specific reason, not for doing n things) will show you when and what they were awarded for if you click them.

Additionally, this was an audit, so yes the user can not strictly fit the criteria in those cases (we wouldn't have much of an audit pool in most sites if that was the case). The point of audits is to see if you're paying attention, you were.

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  • but he made his first post 2 hours before the snapshot
    – Sam I am says Reinstate Monica
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:04
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    If this was his first answer, how did he get [Tenacious] last August? Also, he has 88 answers, according to the profile.
    – Geobits
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:04
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    That's not the reported issue... unless of course the screenshot is faked or taken long time ago which we can't prove. Can't you just see if this was an audit??
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:06
  • @SamIam - the bug reported is "can this user have this rep and this many badges", yes they sure can. Should his post be in the first answers queue is an entirely different issue.
    – Nick Craver
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:07
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    @NickCraver That's a terrible reading of the intent of the bug report. Almost everyone else read it as: "Can a user with X years on the site and Y badges be considered a 'new user'?"
    – Lorem Ipsum
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:08
  • I updated my post with much more information in it. Thanks.
    – Ariel Magbanua
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:13
  • @LoremIpsum - again there's nothing wrong, I added additional explanation to the answer if you're curious. We don't discuss audits in detail for good reason.
    – Nick Craver
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:17
  • @Geobits - it wasn't his real first answer - it was an audit in the queue.
    – Nick Craver
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:18
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    That would have been a simple answer: "It was an audit"
    – Geobits
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:19
  • Oh, so that clears the confusion. Thanks.
    – Ariel Magbanua
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:20
  • I think you guys need to fix your post-finding logic for the First Posts audits to only pull actual first posts. And fix the "Question" stats below it, like I pointed out here :)
    – Rachel
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:24
  • @Rachel - as I stated above we can't do that. It would either show an old post which would look immediately off, or we'd have a very small pool of posts to actually create an audit with, non-existent on smaller sites.
    – Nick Craver
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:25
  • Wasn't there a suggestion to fake the review time and user info? That would take care of this issue :)
    – Ren
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:26
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    @Ren - then we'd attribute content to the wrong person, which we just don't do...and whomever copies all the creative commons data is not allowed to do either.
    – Nick Craver
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:27
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    @NickCraver Can't you just fake their Rep and badges?
    – Rachel
    Mar 14, 2013 at 16:30

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