Questions tagged [merge-accounts]
For questions about how the account merge system works.
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I log in and I find out I am another user. What are the privacy implications?
I just logged in after being off for a week and I found out I was in the profile of another user. I understood what happened because some notifications pointed me to this and this question.
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Regressed Issue: some Stack Exchange sites that are not registered by me but shown in “my community” and can be accessed by me
I know this thing has happened to me before, see Why are there some Stack Exchange sites that are not registered by me, but shown in “my community” and can be accessed by me?.
See my Stack Exchange ...
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Account (un)merge glitch
Two days ago, a particular user was causing a lot of trouble on Meta and Mathematics. They were merged with Eggs McLaren probably due to a mistake, then merged with another account, before being ...
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Why is accounts merging only possible by staff? [duplicate]
To merge several accounts into single one the actions from staff side is needed. Regular user need to request it by contact page, moderators have another special page for this. But in both cases this ...
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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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After 2 accounts were merged, I didn't receive the reputation bonus on one site [duplicate]
I recently created a new account on the Parenting Stack Exchange site, and in the course of 3 days, earned ≈400 reputation. I later realized that my other accounts hadn't received the reputation bonus,...
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For rule-following sock puppets, is there a "guaranteed" way to request they be merged into a puppeteer account?
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I am musing on the idea of carrying out an elaborate joke where I create a puppeteer account named "Dio" and then create a rule-following sock puppet, using it to add value to the ...
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Is it OK to create a timetable to avoid getting merged when I have to share the same network with other people?
I stay in a dormitory and have a problem: I have to share the same network with four other people. We know each other's accounts and avoid interacting with each other. The problem is even though we ...
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Review suspensions are not carried over with account merges
The user who is the subject of this CM escalation (link only visible to Stack Overflow moderators and Stack Exchange staff members) was suspended from reviewing for 365 days on Aug 10, 2022:
Later, ...
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Why did my account get merged with several others? What do I have to do to reverse it? [duplicate]
I just logged in and found that my account was merged with many other accounts with no reason. My account has many questions that don't belong to my account. I don't know why it happened. There are ...
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Why did this former staff member get all these badges at once?
I was browsing the list with recently awarded badges for popular questions, when I noticed former staff member Lisa Park getting 9 instances of this badge at the same time.
The description of this ...
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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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Questions about merging sock puppet accounts
Recently I created two accounts, and I must admit, I use them to sock puppet (not on meta), but now I want to merge them, because it's really hard to live with this lie, and I have several questions:
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How can you merge accounts when you've not got access to old email? [duplicate]
I have this old account and I can't log in to the email associated with it anymore:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/847047/avenas8808
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/171485/avenas8808
How can I ...
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My chat profiles were not merged when my accounts were merged [duplicate]
I recently merged my multiple accounts. All my reputations, badges, chat ping notifications, privilege notifications, etc. from my duplicate account were moved to my primary (original) account. But my ...
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