18
votes
Accepted
Can a moderator apply to be a moderator on another SE site with another SE account?
TL;DR: There is no policy on this and we plan to handle any events on a per-case basis.
The best policies are based on studying and understanding situations fully so that the policy reflects actual ...
- 5,048
15
votes
Accepted
How can I make a new account when I am question banned?
As others have suggested in the comments, you have bumped up against an automatic block of new questions from your account. Your account has been blocked because of the ten questions you have posted, ...
- 266
13
votes
Accepted
Can you transfer some of your questions to your second account?
No You can't. Under most circumstances you cannot selectively change ownership of a post.
In theory you could merge accounts but not selectively split off accounts. The one situation where ...
- 193k
13
votes
Accepted
All my Stack Overflow history of answers and reputation disappeared
Looks like your account was deleted by a site moderator.
Since we (the ordinary users of Stack Exchange) can't see and know any details, and since you don't have account on Stack Overflow itself, I ...
- 175k
13
votes
Can a moderator apply to be a moderator on another SE site with another SE account?
There is no rule against this that I know of. But I do think that becoming a mod on separate accounts can potentially be problematic if you do not disclose it.
To become a mod you need to get ...
- 189k
11
votes
Can a moderator apply to be a moderator on another SE site with another SE account?
Well -there's literally no rule against it as far as I know as of now.
The one potential problem I see is if the user's other account(s) are ineligible, by means of suspension within the last year - ...
- 193k
10
votes
How are persistently disruptive users who continually create new accounts dealt with?
I talk a bit about the process in this feature request and this answer, but moderators have the ability to delete accounts such that they start building a network-wide IP address block. This kicks in ...
- 60.9k
8
votes
Allow moving an existing Stack Exchange account to a new user account if different from the main category in that user account
This feature request is to allow splitting up a collection of thematically different Stack Exchange accounts among multiple user accounts.
First off, why limit the feature request only to '...
- 41.2k
8
votes
Accepted
Merging Accounts Question Roundup
No, that is not remotely true, and we have never asked anyone for screenshots of the accounts before. Depending on what accounts need merged, what information you have, and which accounts you can ...
- 190k
7
votes
Accepted
Does "sock-puppet" always carry the meaning of abusive, non-main accounts? Is there such thing as a "benign sock-puppet"?
I have a test account that explicitly uses the term ‘sock’ and my name in the email address plus “… footwear is stinky” in a description field. It’s nice and descriptive, and fellow mods know who the ...
- 102k
7
votes
Accepted
How does Stack Overflow determine that a question was upvoted by the questioner's sock puppet?
Some of this stuff is done automatically, and some of it is done manually. There is a system that checks for voting fraud by looking at voting patterns and reverses suspicious sets of votes. (The ...
- 32.8k
7
votes
Accepted
Why is there no login option for site Y, if I already logged into site X?
When you log into one of our Q&A sites, you're logging into the whole network, not just that one site. Think of it as logging into, for example, Reddit - you log in once, but you can then "...
- 160k
6
votes
Accepted
"Join this community" button appears even though I've already joined
You had joined back in 2014. But you never did anything there, and your profile got automatically deleted as inactive (we've since disabled that feature). So you do need to join the community there, ...
- 190k
5
votes
Accepted
Is it tolerated to upvote one's own comments using a separate account?
Found the answer
There are a handful of legitimate reasons to maintain multiple accounts. A good rule of thumb for identifying abusive socks is: if the second account allows you to do something on ...
- 25.1k
3
votes
Accepted
How can I manage multiple work accounts with my personal Stack Exchange account?
Well, I've maintained a second account and haven't had them merged yet.
Aside from the 'obvious' - as per Shog's writeup from way back, my recommendation would be, unless you have an obvious reason ...
- 193k
3
votes
Is it tolerated to upvote one's own comments using a separate account?
That sounds sketchy.
Given you mention downvoting in the second paragraph, I'm assuming you're talking about voting on non-comments. In that case, no, I don't think people should be casting two votes ...
- 7,011
2
votes
How can we help non-malicious users oblivious to the fact that they have multiple accounts?
Unfortunately, there's not much more you can do beyond urging the user to request an account merge. There's a short topic in the Help Center that you can point the user toward. If the accounts are ...
- 183k
1
vote
Stack Exchange keeps creating new accounts
I too had the same confusion... but now I guess I know what's happening.
Stack exchange does create new accounts for each site, but does not delete the old accounts.
Try clicking on your profile ...
- 11
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible