Questions tagged [merge-accounts]
For questions about how the account merge system works.
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User merge page wording [duplicate]
On the user merge request page (for example, here), we read (emphasis mine):
If you have lost access to your duplicate account, please click here to fill out the form.
Clicking "here" gives three ...
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My account is Forked. [duplicate]
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How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I noticed that my account has been forked as:
https://...
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Author is changed for the same answer
I got stuck with this answer for one question.
Firstly it was this:
After 5 minutes it became this:
What is going on? How the author was changed? Was that moderated?
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Fairly minor bug on Stack Overflow edit profile page
When trying to save my profile on Stack Overflow, and the email is already taken, this is what happens:
The account recovery page bit is not linked, and the HTML code for the link is displayed. Yes, ...
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Help>Merge is asking for something impossible
From https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/user-merge:
If you have lost access to your duplicate account, please click here to fill out the form.
If you click, you see this:
If someone has lost ...
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How to avoid deletion and merging of accounts using the same network or computer?
My friends and I use the same network and sometimes the same computer due to scarcity of computer resources. My account got suspended due to irregular voting pattern. I am regretting that and serving ...
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Why have my user accounts not been merged?
I have requested merging my accounts twice. My first donation to Stack Overflow was without an active user. I have since connected with my Facebook ID, but lost the credit. I have then, as I said, ...
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Make it possible to merge user accounts in Data Explorer
This is my profile in Data Explorer. I logged in there with Gmail account which I am using in Stack Exchange. So my user id of any Stack Exchange site is automatically populated there. I have three ...
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Never received fez hat due to bad account linking - requesting proper account linking
For some reason my meta account hasn't been linked properly to my other accounts for quite some time now. It is sort of half-linked as some things work (such as Convention badge), but others don't.
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Make account merges propagate to chat
When two accounts are merged, all the posts/votes are moved over to the "primary" account, and the other account ("sock"?) is deleted. The merge is propagated network-wide, so a ...
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Recovering Stack Overflow for forgotten associated e-mail address [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I forgot my stack overflow account, so I create new account ...
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My account was incorrectly merged and then suspended
So I visited my Stack Overflow account and found this 7-day suspension. Then I checked my Questions Sections and found out question I never asked (It looks like a bug). So does anyone have an idea to ...
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Can not merge Stack Overflow accounts
I have two Stack Overflow accounts. Now I want to merge those two accounts. How can I do this?
I followed these steps:
Step 1 : Create Account
Step 2 : login with https://stackoverflow.com/users/...
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Deactivate Stack Overflow Account
I have a Stack Overflow account with name NeverHopeless. I mistakenly created another account with the same name when I was posting here.
These are the steps I followed and the account created:
When ...
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Provide explicit moderator tools to deal with sock puppets
Determining whether a specific user is a sock puppet is not an exact science. While many cases are clear-cut, the line can get a lot fuzzier when for example coworkers and friends are involved. So ...
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How to merge reputation of my old account to new account
I have an old account which is blocked on stack overflow which have 92 reputations. and i have created a new account on stack and now i want to merge my previous account reputations into my new ...
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User merge request [closed]
Please merge all accounts of user mat. The user requests this merge in the comment of this answer:
I noticed you finally registered an account. Congratulations. Would you like us to merge all of ...
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Can somebody merge my account? [closed]
I created account
https://academia.stackexchange.com/users/2741/billy
last night, but I want to be bobobobo on that site -- can someone merge my accounts?
(new account:)
https://academia....
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How can I prove ownership of an account? [closed]
After I followed the steps from the answer: My old SO account was registered with my previous work email I completed the form and received an email that said:
If you are unable to log into one of ...
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Recovering Stack Overflow for forgotten associated e-mail [duplicate]
I forgot my stack overflow account, so i create new account just to ask how i can recover or merge my old account..
I have tried this: https://stackoverflow.com/help/user-merge
but there are no ...
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Why can't I merge my two accounts?
This process is not working for me:
Go to profile page
Press "my logins". Empty list.
I press "add more logins..."
I press "log in with StackExchange"
It asks
Confirm
This login is new to Bitcoin - ...
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is it possible to merge my unregistered account with current one ? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I have asked some questions, before I create my existing ...
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Two logins from same openid
I was wondering if it was possible to change the Google account I have associated with my StackOverflow account.
The old email I have registered at google (and associated with my SO account) is no ...
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merging some accounts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I just created an account I can log into:
https://...
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Merging two accounts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to access SO with multiple openid accounts?
I use my facebook account to log in to stackoverflow. However I can not use this or yahoo or google account to log in from my ...
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Merged accounts don't show correct post count on network profile?
Not a big issue, but it seems the network profile counts might be off when accounts are merged.
Example: for some time (about a week, possibly longer), a merged account has been showing only 1 ...
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Registration fails - No email is sent to me
I tried to merge this account with my previous, unregistered one. So I clicked on the link to recover my account and entered my email address. But I haven't received an email yet. I tried to register ...
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Downvotes removed on account merger
After a user requested their duplicate accounts be merged on Bio, I'm a little puzzled by their reputation.
Account A posted a question which at the time of merger had 2 upvotes, 1 downvote. I ...
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does serial undownvote script kick in after duplicate accounts merge?
There is a user who managed to get sort of protection provided by the "serial" script so that their posts regularly get a portion of undownvotes when script kicks in (Reputation tab in the user ...
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Careers account refuses to link to stackoverflow account
I have >400 reputation on stack overflow, but my careers profile refuses to acknowledge that I have any stack overflow, programming, or server fault accounts. All of the stack overflow question sites ...
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I tried to login with Facebook and another account was created [duplicate]
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How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
How can I merge my two accounts?
This one making this post ...
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Is it possible to merge my accounts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I've been using this account for a while, but my OpenID ...
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I was about to merge my stackoverflow account...how to protect my points [duplicate]
I have somehow two accounts with my ID for stats.stackexchange.com
The account linked with Stackoverflow has reputation of 1 while that connected with crossvalidated has rep (31+2B).
I guess this ...
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Is there a way to merge non-moderator accounts into a moderator account? [closed]
It's not a huge deal but I was wondering if it is in some way possible to merge unregistered users with moderator accounts. I found a few old questions/answers (for example, this is mine) that I ...
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How to transfer (merge) account from former company, (Google Apps)
I appear to have created an account using my former employer's Google Apps email; I can no longer access that email account but I can still log in to SO using a linked Yahoo account. I would like to ...
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When merging user accounts, dialog allows for users from other SE sites to be entered, causing improper merges
When a mod is given the dialog to merge an account with another, they typically prompt for the "master" user.
Most of the time, we simply copy/paste the URL of the user into the box and all is well.
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account merge gone bad
Accidentally I've created two different accounts in the network: one with my main google openid and one with reserve one for some reason. The main account (with reserve openid) was pseudonymous but ...
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Request for an account merge [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
Can I have a question I asked before joining the site added ...
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How do I merge two accounts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I have created an account on Stack Overflow created with my ...
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How can I merge Stack Overflow account with my openID account [duplicate]
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How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I have an account in Stack Overflow ,later I came to know ...
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lost all points and bounties in account merge [duplicate]
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2 accounts de-merged. Many lost points. Top user status lost
I was the top contributor for the quarter on the beta site quant.stackexchange.com with ~3700 reputation, and also ...
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Two accounts de-merged; many points and top user status lost
Two accounts were de-merged per Two accounts were merged, but they were used by different people but in the process, both users lost many points, and some bounties were exchanged. For example:
Quant ...
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Transferring my reps from dormant account [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
I have had two accounts on stackoverflow, while one being now ...
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I would like to merge my two accounts
I had an account with AskUbuntu and another one with StackOverflow. I have been trying to merge the two of them. How do I go about it?
Thanks.
PS: I just realize I might have created a third account ...
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The case for merging, and not destroying spam users
The case for merging, and not destroying spam users has not been made in time, and thus the spam user at Gaming has been destroyed, and with it more than a year's worth of information about sites that ...
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How can I un-merge two accounts?
About a month ago, I was logged in to Stack Exchange on either Stack Overflow or Game Dev SE. Then my brother came along, jumped on the computer, and thought he logged me out. But he actually clicked ...
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On one page, same person, different reputation points
Matt asked this question.
Matt answered that question (which isn't an answer). Both were joined before a week, so I assumed he's one person. They both have the same gravatar.
http://phpcode.eu/...
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Account deleted for being a sock puppet, accounts merged
Today my account was suspended in SO for voting irregularities. I admit, I was abusing (though not necessarily for the rep points) and I deserve the suspension. However, I have a question. The "sock ...
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Merged accounts on multiple sites, but not all completed
I recently had two accounts merged (old, new); now my accounts on the following sites all use the same OpenID:
Stack Overflow
Meta Stack Overflow
English Language and Usage
Photography
Ask Ubuntu
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Multiple Accounts in Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered)
What's the SO policy about having multiple user accounts? ...
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