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Refers to user accounts either generically, or across the network.
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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 …
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Accepted
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 …
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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 …
0
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Accepted
How to leave from 4 networks out of 5 networks
You can delete your account on one site independently of all other accounts.
So if you want to delete all but your Stack Overflow account you can delete those without affecting the Stack Overflow one …
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Accepted
Use another profile other than the oldest when joining new community or site
The copying of the oldest profile is by design.
The only way would be to make your Tex/Latex profile read the same as your Math [sic] profile.
I'd suggest opening a feature-request to allow the user …
21
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Accepted
Why are people allowed to have multiple user accounts?
People are allowed to have multiple accounts as long as they don't use them to vote for themselves.
There are mechanisms in place to identify this sort of behaviour and steps taken - usually merging …
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)
8
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Accepted
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 …
6
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Accepted
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 …
11
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Accepted
Is it possible to have different profiles/usernames across community sites?
Each site's account is separate in that you can have a different name, profile information etc. However, by default all your other accounts will appear in the "Accounts" section.
However, you can hid …
3
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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 …
15
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Accepted
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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Each login creates a new StackExchange account
By using Google+, Facebook or some other 3rd party OpenID provider you will definitely avoid this problem as Stack Exchange will recognise you the next time you are logged on.
You can add additional …
6
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Mutli-accounts and own up-voting
Yes, but the tools are not available to ordinary users.
There are tools and processes in place that can detect this sort of behaviour and if we find it votes are invalidated and/or accounts deleted t …
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Hide other SE accounts
Why not create a second OpenID for gaming and use that instead of the one you used for your Stack Overflow account. There's no rule that states you have to use the same OpenID for all your accounts. T …