Questions tagged [user-accounts]
Refers to user accounts either generically, or across the network.
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Will you reconsider adding 2FA? For example, FIDO2 or TOTP codes?
I'm actually shocked to find that such a large site does not have 2FA. I saw mention of telling people to just rely on the 2FA of other sites such as Google or GitHub when signing in, but that short-...
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Some Users have an AccountId being Zero
We know account creation is finicky from answers to questions like Why is my profile messed up on a single site and how can I revert it? among others.
In some of these cases you end-up with a user-...
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Cannot create new account on Ask Ubuntu
I always get an error stating that I cannot create a new account on the Ask Ubuntu site. I am a member of several different Stack Exchange sites, but for some reason, I can't login to Ask Ubuntu. ...
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Will a user still be punished if their historical bad behaviour/sock-puppeting is later discovered? [duplicate]
Imagine a user has two accounts on the same site. But after a while, they remove one of the accounts.
I don't know if it's still discoverable that a user once had a second account on a site but if the ...
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How can I manage multiple work accounts with my personal Stack Exchange account?
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Recently I joined a charity organization which requires me to do some light coding.
I setup of my new account on Chrome which now has three accounts linked in it (Personal, 9-5 Work, and ...
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How do I change the email I use to log in to Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I want to change my Stack Exchange account email, because I cannot log in to that email. I rarely use that email, which was only used for registering with Stack Exchange in the very early days.
After ...
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Accounts and logins of the Stack Exchange sites family [duplicate]
I have an account on Stack Overflow, for the past many years. Over the time I used other Stack Exchange sites as well, like TeX - LaTeX, Unix & Linux and Artificial Intelligence.
Yesterday I ...
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Why has my account disappeared without any notifications or warnings?
I used to have an account with id user:12361700 with more than 12,000 points on Stack Overflow. Eight hours ago, I could log in without any problem, but this morning, without any prior warning nor ...
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Are these new accounts simply touting for business? [duplicate]
This is one of the newly opened accounts:
https://stackexchange.com/users/29091928/the-mike-hostilo-law-firm
There are at least two others from different locations. They represent a U.S. law firm and ...
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Are Meta accounts deleted along their "main" account?
As the title says, I wonder if scheduling for deletion of an account (say on The Workplace) will also delete the Meta account related to that Stack? (Meta The Workplace)
I checked How can I delete my ...
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Is it allowed to review others' suggested edits to make space in the edit queue for your alternate account to make suggested edits?
I wanted to create a new account on Stack Overflow to be a chat bot in their chat server, but to chat, an account would need at least 20 rep. So I started to make edits, but the edit queue kept ...
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Cannot log in to Area 51 (so cannot ask this in its Discussion Zone)
I have an Area 51 account1:
But I cannot log in:
The option to sign up does not work either:
The option to join this community starts off okay and picks up my email (which I have not screen-shot) ...
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Is it a good idea to delete and recreate my account if my first contributions are badly received? [duplicate]
If I ask a question, and it gets downvoted and closed, would it be a good idea to delete and recreate my account, to erase the question from my question record? Doing so effectively disassociates the ...
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Can't open a ticket for merging accounts; Error occurs even though all fields are included
I tried to follow the instruction in the link but I can't open a ticket for merging accounts. I get the following error:
We can't merge until we have links to both profiles; please add the missing ...
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My account was automatically unregistered after I completed my registration with Stack Exchange [duplicate]
As I was upvoting a comment, the UI said to complete registration. After completing registration, a new account was created, and my existing account was unregistered...
Now I can't upvote the answer ...
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Network login failing [duplicate]
I am unable to log in, for example, to Super User. Using the latest Firefox on Windows 10, I already tried disabling addons like NoScript and uBlock Origin. After clicking on Login on Super User, it ...
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Is the email address under "Edit email settings" different than the email address under "Your logins"?
Stack Exchange's login system is confusing me terribly.
I just want to change my account's email address; the one I use to log in to sites like Stack Overflow.
When I go to My Profile -> Settings, ...
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Linked Accounts Getting Confused?
I have two different email addresses linked to my Stack Exchange ID. I thought I had different passwords for them, and when I look at my profile, it appears to treat them as different, but linked.
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Difference between account age on network profile and the site itself
The Stack Overflow profile of this user says
Member for 10 months
However, their network profile says for that same account
Joined 10 days ago
What's going on here?
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Can't confirm new account when joining another site
I'm trying to have my sockpuppet join a new site, but whatever browser I use (in a private window, so cookies won't matter), I'm greeted with "Oops! Something Bad Happened!". It does not ...
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Is there a unified portal/dashboard to update/change user account details and login credentials for all Stack Exchange sites?
I have searched across portals and multiple pages Google search results, but I couldn't find any definitive way to update my account details uniformly for all the Stack Exchange sites.
Heck, there ...
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Unclear wording and missing screenshots in: "How do I delete my account?" Should be clearer that it is just one out of many accounts to be deleted
This came up after reading, commenting, and answering How can I delete a Stack Exchange account of mine?, with the hint of a user to make this an MSE feature request.
Unclear wording
Unclear wording ...
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I keep getting logged out of Stack Overflow
This has been reported quite a few times over the years, both with Chrome and Firefox (and maybe others, I did not read all the comments).
Since it is driving me crazy (but it's not like there is an ...
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Move achievements to the right on accounts block
On the activity page of profile achievements block needs to be moved to the right part for the items with long enough site names. When they don't fit on the single line. E.g.:
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Can't register for Area 51, nor use my existing SE account (doesn't match any existing meta.SE question I can find)
I just clicked to follow a proposal on Area 51, and then confirmed my email (the usual one I use for Stack Exchange), and then refreshed my area51.SE tab. I expected that somewhere along the line here,...
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Error in reputation points from Stack Exchange and main site account deleted [duplicate]
A few months ago I deleted my main Stack Overflow en español (SO.es) account with around 4.5K reputation.
I have created an account again and when I see my reputation in SO.es I have 250 points.
And ...
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Why cannot I join any Stack Exchange community as for now? [duplicate]
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/
I tried to join this astronomy community using the button on the top right. However, it tells me that "You cannot register at this time.
If you continue to ...
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Why doesn't my profile on a new site show my name?
I am an active user of Stack Overflow and several other Stack Exchange sites. Today I wanted to leave a comment on a question at matheducators.stackexchange.com, so I clicked through to make a linked ...
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Cannot cancel out of account creation from Winter Bash "Log in or Sign up" link
At the top of the Winter Bash 2022 page there's a link to "Log in or Sign up". I don't have an SO account, so if I click on it I'm prompted to create one, linked to my SE profile. Clicking ...
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How do I know if I have a "physical profile" on stackexchange.com?
The answer to How can I delete my account? states that
Your network profile on stackexchange.com will be automatically deleted within 24 hours (whenever it attempts to sync again), unless you have ...
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Impossible to reconnect with another Google account [duplicate]
I wanted to connect to a Stack Exchange site, but by mistake I chose my Google account from work.
I noticed it on the page that asks me to create my profile.
I clicked on Cancel to go back and use the ...
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Difference between changing password with Email and with Stack Exchange
I want to change my Stack Overflow (and as far as I know that will change it for all other Stack Exchange sites) profile. First, I really have to mention, that UI is very bad - I needed to google &...
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Closed Area 51 proposals show more to anonymous users than when logged in [closed]
This is what the What If proposal looks like when logged in:
That's fine, I can live with that.
However, this is when not logged in:
Same page, same browser (Firefox 107 x64). One in a normal window,...
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Error returned when trying to login to Stack Overflow Teams after adding another login [closed]
I was successfully logged in to our new company Stack Overflow Teams account using email + password. I then (foolishly) attempted to attach another login using GitHub, thinking I could have my ...
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Ask Question > Create new account? > Cancel > Cancel > Cancel > …
Apparently, this bug was reported before here and here and it was supposedly fixed, so it's either a regression or it was just partially fixed (see below).
The bug happens when clicking the "Ask ...
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Can't log in to other communities. Only on SO (GitHub account) [duplicate]
I'm able to log in with a GitHub account on SO (Stack Overflow). When I go to other communities I see this:
When I try to log in, I don't see an option to use GitHub:
I think this is a bug, because ...
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Why is my new account on an SE site only sort of attached? [duplicate]
I started a new biology SE account and used my Google information to log in. Now, I haven't used any SE site in perhaps two years, so I wouldn't be surprised if my old account from a deactivated email ...
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How to run a Stack Exchange data query with the Stack Exchange API
I'm trying to find out if there is a way to run a query/complex search on the Stack Exchange API.
I need to find all users that have a reputation greater than 250 and are from a certain location. I ...
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Remove an account promoting escort services [duplicate]
I just rejected a spam edit on MSO from a new user promoting an escort service.
Looking at the user's profile here on MSE, it seems to have no purpose other than (spammingly?) promoting an escort ...
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Can we please have consistent wording regarding "profile" and "account"?
The words "profile" and "account" have been used interchangeably in multiple places across the network, but I am not sure if it is the right thing to do. Also, I could not find any ...
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Is it possible to lose access to one of the Stack network's sites' memberships, while membership to other networks site's is still valid?
First, sorry that I do not know what is the correct word to use instead of membership.
What I mean by that word, is I joined the site and I could easily access my profile on that site by switching ...
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Entering some Stack Overflow pages, I am having a bad user experience (Corporate Network User)
Entering some Stack Overflow pages, I am having a bad user experience.
It happens that when entering the main pages where the questions are displayed, it usually takes me a long time to fully load the ...
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Do we need to do anything about the flood of bogus new users on various SE sites?
Arts & Crafts doesn't get a lot of traffic. I just noticed an unusual number of new users on the Users tab. There's 66 pages of new users. Starting with the last row of new users on the first ...
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Can't login to some sites after changing password
My password was remembered by a browser and I forgot to save it somewhere else too.
After accidentally erasing all saved logins, I now had to recreate mine. I did it successfully, and can access some ...
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Why doesn't Ask Ubuntu let me share my Stack Overflow login?
On any other site in the Stack Exchange network, if I try to sign up it offers to use my existing Stack Overflow login. I've used this feature many times; the upside is that you get an immediate 100 ...
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How to ensure that ownership of all my contributions on the Stack Exchange network is transferred to Community Wiki after my demise? [duplicate]
I wish my affairs to be settled when I'm dead. This includes avoiding the false impression that I am still alive and reachable when actually I am dead. This also means that internet accounts that I ...
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Merging an unregistered account [duplicate]
I realized, after many months, that I once asked a question on the aviation Stack Exchange site, not from this account. Apparently I reentered my email I guessed and created an account which was ...
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Area 51: Unable to log in: No user found [duplicate]
When I click the (tiny) button to log in to Area 51, it gives an error:
I obviously have to have a user account to ask a question here, so this is definitely a bug. Could this be fixed so I can ...
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"Change password" wants to change WRONG Stack Exchange account
I have two SE logins - an old one I'd prefer not to use, davidbak -at- gmail.com, and a new one that I want to switch to, david -at bakins-bits.com.
I can't log in with the new one. Perhaps it is a ...
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How do I view "Hot Network Question" history associated with a given account?
I have asked a lot of questions that made it to "Hot Network Question" list across multiple websites in the Stack Exchange Network, and I need a list of all questions posted by me that had ...
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