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A while back, I accidentally asked a question on Super User that should have gone on Stack Overflow. It got moved, but my accounts weren't linked, so it didn't show me as the owner of my question.
I was able to upvote it, and I discovered that after I linked my accounts I got the 10 rep points from my question and was unable to remove my vote.
Has this been seen before and can it be fixed?
I'm really not sure it is worth worrying about; it is such an edge-case that you would get minimal rep. Arguably, posting on meta about some nuance of a question (with link) is a far more efficient rep exploit.
Actually, there is a known glitch at the moment when we merge two accounts for the same user; it is possible (in the nefarious cases) that those accounts have intentionally cross-voted each-other, and this doesn't currently get removed when merging.
My point (I'm getting there); I'm hopeful that Jeff/team will eventually fix the above to remove self-votes as a scheduled task; this would address the above (slightly-less-evil) case as a handy side-effect.
