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Refers to user accounts either generically, or across the network.
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What is my user ID?
You can find it in several ways.
The link from your flair on the question contains your id - https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/164012/daniel - in this case it's 164012 here on meta.
Go to your pr …
8
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Remove account on a single Stack Exchange site
Deleting an account on one site has no effect on any of the other sites. Even if you delete the account that reached 200 rep and all the other accounts have less than 200 rep, you won't lose the assoc …
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Allow users to hide connections between accounts
You can already create a second account - using different login credentials - but that does require that you either use different browsers or continually log in and log out to post on the relevant sit …
6
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What is the procedure for having my spouse/significant other as a member of the same SE site?
Should we refrain from voting at all on each others' questions & answers?
Personally I'd do this. It's much easier than trying to remember how many you've voted on and worrying about whether you …
6
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Lost reputation when resetting my password
As hims056 points out in his comment, you ended up creating a new account.
You now have two accounts. Your old one:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/2375535/nomade
and your new one:
https://stackov …
6
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Account Merge Restrictions: Number of Accounts
There is no limit to the number of accounts that can be merged, or how frequently they can be merged.
However, the team require you to prove that you are the owner of any accounts you want merging, a …
16
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Staying anonymous with connected accounts
If you create an account on site B with the same OpenID/e-mail as you used for site A then the accounts will be linked.
If you wish to participate on some sites anonymously then either do so unregist …
2
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Accounts tab in SO
Click on your name at the top of the page to access your profile. The accounts tab is the one on the far right.
1
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Stack Overflow account - seek and recover request
If you register with the site you'll have a permanent account you can use from any computer.
Once you've done that if you can then find one of your previous questions you can "flag" it for moderator …
1
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How do you link questions you asked on a different computer after creating an open id?
Assuming you can find the question you can flag it for moderator attention and ask for the accounts to be merged.
There will probably be some e-mailing between the team and you to verify ownership, b …
10
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Would this two-account situation be appropriate?
Just to reiterate and emphasise what others have written. This:
Accounts may
Answer a question asked by another account
is not allowed on any Stack Exchange site.
There is nothing wrong with self …
8
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Accepted
Deleted user on Stack Overflow?
Yes.
That's a profile that was deleted a long time ago. Back then the names weren't anonymised like they are now.
Now you'd see
user123456
(or whatever their id was)
4
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Should a user have only one account on all SO/ServerFault/Meta sites
I agree.
Your ID should be global, but your reputation, badges and even bio should be unique to each site. The default would be to have the same bio as the first entered, but you should be allowed to …
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What does "block not encountered" mean in a user profile?
It means exactly what it says.
There is a block in place (for asking in this case but it could be for answering) but the user hasn't tried to post a question (or answer) since the block was applied.
…
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When a suggested edit is by a user with the same “user name” as the owner of the post, tell ...
The problem here is that the user name is not unique.
So how would you tell that /users/12345/chrisf is the same as /users/67890/chrisf when these could legitimately be separate people.
You could ha …