Questions tagged [merge-accounts]
For questions about how the account merge system works.
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Can I link my account to one that I deleted?
Say that I open two accounts by mistake on the same SE site. There's a procedure in place for linking them.
Is there a similar procedure in place if I accidentally deleted my account? Can I dig up ...
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Improve the user profile merge template when contacting community team
When I use the moderator tool to contact the community team, one of the templates is "user profile merge" (Thanks for adding that btw!)
The template is currently:
Hello,
I'm writing in reference to ...
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What would happen if someone who is suspended created a new account and tries to have it merged it later?
Let's say someone:
has his Stack Exchange account suspended for a year;
then created a new account;
tries to merge it with his previous account after the suspension is over.
What would happen then ...
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Zombie account was somehow created, and I am unable to submit a merge form (profiles already linked)
Update 1: scifi mod tells me a CM contacted me this morning, I haven't received any e-mail (I checked the spam too). Not sure if it's related.
Update 2: got a reply for the latest form submitted from ...
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Problem with merging accounts
I have this account under an email that I ask this question from right now AND I have an old account here:
https://math.stackexchange.com/users/18993/nikolajk
that I made under an old email address. ...
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Unable to update profile at Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I try to update my account at Stack Overflow, but see this error:
Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
This email address is already registered. If it belongs to you, log in above or ...
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What should I do in the case of an account merge if I don't have access to one of the emails?
I found this account (on which I am posting) and requested a merge via Stack Overflow support. I clicked the confirm ownership link from the email associated with the other account, but as it stands, ...
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Just found an older account of mine, can they be merged? [duplicate]
I joined stackoverflow the other day with the ID DevTravis. Could these two accounts be merged, preferably the newer one being preserved and the questions from this one being migrated?
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Would it have been possible to get both versions of "Where in the World" with an account-merger?
There are two different versions of the hat "Where in the World?", which, according to the list of hat-triggers, is awarded
[f]or participating on a site, when it's December 21 (the December ...
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My math.stackexchange profile showing 3 times my account and reputation problem
First of all in my first picture my math.stackexchange account is showing 3 times.
Second problem my today and previous reputations are not showing instead my stackoverflow reputation is visible. ...
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Can I merge only questions from another account?
I have two Stack Exchange accounts, but I want one for questions (this one), and one for answers (the second one). In this account I have no answers at all.
Can I ask a moderator to merge all the ...
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Reputation is not updated when merging chat accounts [duplicate]
I had 2 accounts, e.g:
Account 1 having : 1000 reputation.
Account 2 having : 50 reputation.
After merging these two: the reputation while on the Stack Overflow site shows the updated Reputation i....
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Why is my account suddenly merged with a totally different user's account?
My account has been merged with another user (previously named "moderator") on the suspicion that the latter was my sock puppet, but this is not the case.
Now, that user is using my account ...
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Merge entire network account
I currently have two stack exchange IDs, one linked to my old google ID with all my rep and accounts on multiple stackexchange sites. While another that is linked to my new gmail ID. I wanted to merge ...
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Error while updating Stack Overflow account
When I try to update my profile, I get this error:
Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:
This email address is already registered. If it belongs to you, log in
above or visit our ...
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I am trying to merge accounts. When It asks to put the stack exchange profile's link [duplicate]
I gave "network profile" link https://stackexchange.com/users/1552760/basam-nath
but it says that is not correct. where do I get profile link?
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Is it possible to merge two user profiles with different email ids? [duplicate]
I had created a Stack Overflow account 4-5 years back using an email id provided by the company for which I used to work back then.
I no longer work in that company and no longer have access to email ...
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Error when trying to merge accounts
Can anyone help me merge this old unregistered account of mine with my current official one? When I tried merging them, it says "e-mail address is invalid":
What could be the cause of this ...
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Chat not working after account merge
I have recently merged accounts.
However, it looks like the chats weren't been influenced by the merge, which makes me underprivileged to participate in chat. The screenshots of the problem are as ...
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How to find my StackExchange profile link
A bit lost sorry, can't find the answer.
Obviously, I've 2 SE accounts and I want to merge them. Problem is when I fill in the merge form, I need to provide the links of my profiles.
I thought those ...
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Data explorer site created new jon.doe account, instead of logging me to the old one
I've logged in to data explorer site, but it didn't recognise my old account and created a new one.
Is it possible to merge those accounts, as I can't logging to my old account anymore.
Related:
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Merge old Stack Overflow account with new one [duplicate]
I made this account a couple of years ago, however this email address is no longer in use (it exists, but I can't access it).
Is it possible to merge this Stack Overflow account with my new one?
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Can I merge an old account into a new one? [duplicate]
I just remembered that I made an old account 2 years and 5 months ago. For some reason, I stopped using that login, and now I have my main account (the one I'm using to post this question). I went ...
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Merging accounts after that one of the accounts was suspended for a week
If someone has two accounts and merges them, but one of the accounts was suspended for a week...
Will he get the reputation that he earned in the non suspended account?
Will the answers and ...
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Reputation when merging accounts?
If someone has two accounts and he is going to merge between them, will he get the reputation of both accounts?
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As a moderator, what should I do to merge users?
Sometimes an unregistered user lost their cookies and register with same email, then we get flags like... I can't comment to my posts!!!
In this case, what should I do as moderator?
Encourage them ...
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Should the profiles with same email be automatically merged?
The full order of event related to this problem was:
I asked a question on http://vi.stackexchange.com (not signed up)
Decided to respond to one of the comment
2a. System said that for the feedback ...
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Merging Accounts didn't merge number of questions on Network Profile
I while back I merged an old Lifehacks account with my main account. Before the merge, I asked one question using my old account.
The correct amount of questions are shown in my lifehacks account ...
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I keep getting an "Oops! Something Bad Happened" when I try to merge two accounts on Data Explorer
I logged in on the Data Explorer using my Stack Exchange account, the same I already use on other Stack Exchange sites, but I got logged in with a different user account. So, I tried to merge https://...
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Why do I keep receiving badge notifications from my old unused profile?
A moment ago, I noticed I got a gold badge related to this question. I clicked on it and I found it is related to another profile of mine I did not use for ages as I have no idea which email and ...
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Which profile details does an account merge preserve?
When one has to merge two accounts, they're prompted by something like this with input fields for each account link:
Account 1:
Account 1 link.
Account 2:
Account 2 link.
When the merge ...
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How to maintain company profile in SO careers among several users?
I have a problem regarding stackoverflow careers.
Think my company wants to create a job listing and I am telling it to my HR manager. So he creates an account in website and he put an ad. Then he ...
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If you've got Google, you don't seem to mean much anymore
Disclaimer: I'm writing this from my phone, so a lot of words may be misspelt, or changed due to auto-correct. I've got a cast on my wrist so that will definitely help too. Also, I'm not very happy, I'...
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Merge request profile link validation is fair to middling
Bungled an attempt to add a login to my account recently and created a sock instead. Decided not to give myself sweet sockpuppet rep, so I tried sending in a merge request.
You can see from the ...
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Account merge unsuccessful
I created a new account on Ask Different this morning. I want to merge it into my main account. I used the "I want to merge my profiles" option of the Contact Us form in the Help Center.
It sent ...
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Merge all accounts of these Stack Exchange-registered users together (not working)
NOTE: This is not a duplicate because the link this question duplicates does not solve my problem.
OK I've read this link, but I am getting an error when I try to merge the following accounts:
https:/...
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Can a user split their Stack Exchange network account into two independent ones? [duplicate]
This is basically a reverse of https://stackoverflow.com/help/merging-accounts.
Let's say a user has a single account on several SE sites that are linked (for example, Stack Overflow, Programmers, ...
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Account merge problem [duplicate]
I wrote this post instead of a comment:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/192694/132894
It doesn't let you comment because you are using a different account now from the one with which you asked ...
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Can we lose badges? Bug or not? [duplicate]
I changed my email on Stack Overflow. And after that, I received back a lot of badges but not all.
For example, I lost Quorum and Constituent.
And I had one more silver badge and one other bronze ...
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Delete Gmail account from 'my logins'
I am gradually moving all of my accounts from all services to my iCloud account. This includes all my accounts from Stack Exchange.
My question is how do I remove my Gmail login for SE? I have made a ...
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Stack Overflow account exists but cannot login
There is something weird going on with my Stack Overflow account.
Last week I logged out of my Stack Overflow account and then logged in again. When I logged in, it opened another account ...
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Are visits to permalinks by an account still attributed to it after it's merged?
Account 4145951 was merged into account 1333493. Instead of a permalink with trailing /4145951, the user will now be offered a trailing /1333493 by the "share" link / "share a link to this answer" ...
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Do links to an account work after it's merged to another?
I want to merge two accounts of mine but I worry about incoming links: what happens to them? Will I break the web?
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Should I let someone I know login to Stack Exchange from my machine?
So there's this girl I know.
She's kind and funny and sweet and basically kinda awesome, and as we've gotten to know each other better, my participation in Stack Exchange has come up as a topic of ...
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Give diamond moderators back the ability to merge users
The merge user interface was updated a while back according to Shog9 when this happened it broke the ability for Mods to request on the behalf of the user.
Can we get that back?
It's difficult for ...
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Merging accounts and selecting the retained account
While merging accounts using the Contact Us link on the bottom of the page, how do I select the account which must be retained; the one that won't get deleted?
If I login from the main account and ...
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How can I merge another Stack Exchange Account with my Stack Overflow Account
I already have an account on Stack Overflow, and have a guest account on Code Review.
I want to know if and how I can merge these two accounts. Any ideas?
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My Stack Overflow Careers profile disappeared after an account merge
I had two accounts on Stack Overflow. After they were merged, my Stack Overflow Careers profile disappeared.
Here is my landing page, but without profile: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/users/info/...
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Each login creates a new StackExchange account
I have a user on SharePoint StackExchange with some reputation. On this computer I am logged in and can work with this account.
If I use another browser or another computer, of course I am not logged ...
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When accounts are merged, are hats also?
If accounts get merged during WinterBash, do hats get transferred as well?
Just curious.
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