Questions tagged [linked-accounts]
For questions about linked accounts
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Award account association bonus automatically upon reaching 200 rep
Currently if a user has more than 200 rep points on one of the Stack Exchange sites, and then associates his account with another SE site account, the linked-to account gains a one time bonus of 100 ...
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Allow users to hide connections between accounts
This feature request is inspired by the question on Programmers.SE on whether it is appropriate to ask an interview candidate for their Stack Overflow user.
Stack Overflow is a site aimed at ...
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Switch Stack Overflow account from Google login to Stack Exchange login [duplicate]
Right now I have an account on Stack Overflow that was created automatically when I logged in using my Google account.
The point is, what happens if I lose access to my Google account?
It seemed ...
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Just created an account on a new SE site, where's my +100 rep?
I just created an account at outdoors.SE (via MyOpenID) to answer a question migrated there, and noticed that I had 1 rep, despite having over 200 rep on several other StackExchange network sites, ...
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Association Bonus not removed upon account deletion [duplicate]
Recently a user asked a question on Meta asking about his deleted account (I won't draw attention to him or his question unless it is really necessary but shouldn't be hard to find - at least until ...
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Two accounts were merged, but they were used by different people
My business partner and I have separate accounts, separate email addresses, separate profiles, across several StackExchange sites. Mysteriously, we now see that his account was merged into mine.
What'...
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How can I disassociate an account?
I want to disassociate an account from the rest of my associated accounts. How can I do that?
The information in this answer by Jeff doesn't seem to be relevant anymore, since I can't find this thing
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Allow registered users to hide username when asking privacy-sensitive question
I think sometimes there is a need to post question as anonymous, reason being to avoid linking content of a question with the identity of the questioner. This may not be so evident or required on ...
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Why separate Stack Exchange accounts?
I understand the reason why Stack Exchange has different sites to separate Cooking from Programming or Gaming. I understand too why the reputation is associated on each site.
Why do I have to create ...
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See all my questions across all Stack Exchange sites?
Is there a way for me to see all my questions across all Stack Exchange sites?
If not, how about just to see which sites I have subscribed to?
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No association bonus for Area51?
My Area51 account crossed 200 rep today, but still other accounts don't reflect the change in reputation. When will the changes be applied? or is there no association bonus for Area51 account?
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Hide other SE accounts [duplicate]
I like to use my real name and photo on some Stack Exchange sites that are relevant to my career (e.g. Stack Overflow) but use a pseudonym on other Stack Exchange sites (such as Gaming). Partly, ...
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What are the possible alternatives to maintain separate accounts for the 'Workplace' and 'Personal Productivity' sites?
I would like to unlink my Workplace and Personal Productivity accounts from other Stack Exchange accounts. These accounts have some information to the incidents in my workplace and personal life ...
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Stop repeatedly auto-associating accounts on login!
I want my Meta profile kept unassociated with the others. Maybe that's swimming against the current, but that's what I want.
Feature: Don't automatically associate my account when I login.
Auto-...
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Answer draft is lost if you click to sign up
When writing an answer on a site where you don't have an account or are not logged in, below the answer entry textbox are options to create an account or continue as guest by providing a nickname and ...
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Sorting related accounts by reputation
More and more sites are coming into the SE family. As such, when going into the accounts tab of some users, there is sometimes quite a big number of associated accounts. Until now, they are displayed ...
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Schedule a Task to Check for Missing +100 Reputation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Award account association bonus automatically upon reaching 200 rep
As the number of Stack Exchange sites grow, we are likely to see a huge influx of users who have not ...
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The FAQ should add clarifying detail about the +100 account association bonus
I know we don't want bloated, off-putting FAQs that make the system seem too complex to new users, but we also want to ensure that they tend to answer any questions that are, well... frequently asked. ...
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Directly support cross-site queries in the Data Explorer [duplicate]
Often you want to query some statistic for a user across all sites. For example, you might write a query to find your rejected suggested edits across all Stack Exchange sites.
To implement this, you ...
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What is the point of the "Parent User" in Chat?
I've looked at the Chat FAQ and I'm still not sure what the point of having a "parent user" of the chat account is.
Why can't a Chat account be associated with multiple other Stack Exchange ...
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A message says "You have no other accounts on the Stack Exchange network", but I do
When I open my profile on Stackoverflow and my profile on meta,
It says You have no other accounts on the Stack Exchange network
I can browse stack and meta safely and I have account on superuser, ...
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Can an account be manually unassociated from my network profile?
I looked at similar questions and wanted to post a more specific one.
If I wanted one of my accounts on the network to no longer be associated to my global account, could an administrator do it ...
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Show user names (and maybe avatars) on "accounts" tab
The old "accounts" tab showed the flairs, hence included avatars and user names. Since March 25th, this now pulls the view from Stack Exchange.
I assume names and avatars are simply not shown on the ...
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Add Area 51 Link to Accounts Tab
Now that Area 51 is public, there should be an Area 51 link to my profile.
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Why am I being notified just now of comments that were posted six years ago?
I've recently got notifications from two comments from six years ago:
Some history:
It was posted by an account that I deleted years ago, and the post was later reattributed to my current account.
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Don't let the association bonus be given away as bounties
When a user with at least 200 rep on any Stack Exchange site registers a new account on another SE site, they immediately receive 100 rep on that site as an association bonus. This is a deliberate ...
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Should the Association Bonus be given to the account crossing 200 rep?
On Stack Overflow, I crossed 200 reputation and got the 100 rep association bonus on all my other accounts. I also got 100 rep on Stack Overflow. Giving an Association Bonus to my other Stack Exchange ...
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Impossible to unlink accounts
This answer states that it is possible to unlink accounts, but it seems to no longer be possible. I was advised to open a bug report, which is what I believe I am doing here. ;)
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Unlink account from Google [duplicate]
For some reason I have created my Stack Overflow account linked from my Google account. Can I create a Stack Exchange account and connect my existing Stack Overflow account to the new ...
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Why can't Area51 be associated?
My Area51 account can somehow not be associated with my other accounts. I'm almost 100% confident that it did work before, but now I only have a button "Clear All Associations". Pressing that one does ...
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Area 51 Associated Accounts Are Arranged Aimlessly
...I originally didn't plan to go that far but the "Are" kinda convinced me to.
As mentioned in this question, there was a recent update which has changed it to sort to a specific order which is ...
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Account summary not updating badges for sites with an ® in their title
I'm aware of the various caches that sit between the sites and the central database for user data - but I was under the impression that most of the issues around this had been cleared up (at least ...
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Other Stack Exchange accounts are not shown in my profile
It seems that my profile no longer shows other accounts that I have in Stack Exchange:
0 Accounts
You have no other accounts on the Stack Exchange network
I haven't checked all my accounts, but it's ...
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Moving a discussion to chat reloads all chatrooms and changes profile picture
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Today I had some extensive discussions in comments and was offered to take the discussion to a chatroom¹. When I clicked the link, the following happened (in addition the expected ...
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Creating accounts - What is this value?
I don't know whether I can express everything here because, this looks like a strange bug. But, I can respond to comments for sure...
I was involved in creating accounts. When I created my account in ...
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How can I write a cross-site Data Explorer query that joins databases on linked accounts? [duplicate]
The answer to this question implies that you can write cross-site Data Explorer queries, but the sample query doesn't appear to do what I think it should.
SELECT TOP 1 *
FROM [StackOverflow....
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Single location for SO/SF/SU user info
With the addition of Server Fault and the future addition of Super User, I can imagine it gets relatively hard to keep track of all that is going on without having three windows open at the same time ...
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Account association has given me a random username
I had a few problems in associating my account on Fitness & Nutrition, perhaps due to the order in which I did things:
Posted a question as an anonymous user.
Once it had got a few upvotes and I ...
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Associated users endpoint gives empty response for meta users
The /users/{ids}/associated endpoint of the Stack Exchange API has the option to set ?types=meta_site to get the child meta users of a network account. But when I try it now, I get an empty response ...
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How does automatic account association work?
I'm interested in some technical information on how you achieved the automatic account association as discussed on the blog. What is "the way to make it happen"? Do you have an (internal) ...
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Linking / creating account on other sites adds 2 "recent names" to your profile?
I was browsing around some of the other Stack Exchange sites I use and noticed that most of the ones I recently joined have two names listed under the recent names on my profile:
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Choose information when copying profile
Could there be a list of checkboxes to single out which information to update when copying profile info to linked accounts? For example, if you had moved and only wanted to update your location ...
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Associated account is empty and I have 2 meta accounts!
See the screenshot below. You can see 2 meta accounts and no SO or any other associated account of mine.
And this is snapshot of my StackoverFlow Account
Question: My account has undergone lot of ...
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How to apply multiple - email accounts to single Stack Overflow account
I have 3 regular gmail accounts. I may be logged in to any of it, but when ever I try to log in to Stack Overflow - It just follows single account.
I have tried Gravatar for that. I have added all ...
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Is there a new auto-login feature?
I just noticed something interesting: once I log in to any one Stack Exchange site, if I go to another Stack Exchange site where I have an account, I'll automatically get logged in without having to ...
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Association bonus not awarded when joining new site
Yesterday, I posted a question on AskUbuntu, and was surprised that I was unable to upvote the answer to it, as the SE account association bonus hadn't been applied.
I have ~1.7k reputation on ...
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Error when linking my account to biology.stackexchange.com beta
Sorry if this is not the correct meta forum for this, but I am unable to ask this in the biology meta because there seems to have been an error when linking (I have no rep and so cannot ask any ...
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Duplicate accounts in accounts tab
For this user, his accounts tab shows three entries for "Database Administrators". It's the same account listed three times:
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Linked Stack Exchange accounts all look the same in accounts tab
I notice that linked Stack Exchange 2.0 accounts all look the same in the accounts tab of a user's profile. I understand that all SE sites in beta look the same, but can anything be done to make the ...
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Lost question ownership after being migrated to other site's child meta
I'm a member of Gaming.SE, but I'm not able to be a member of Meta Gaming.SE. I asked a question on here and it's migrated to Meta Gaming.SE, but I cannot handle the question because it's not ...
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