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Tagged with users user-accounts
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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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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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Stack Exchange Security vs. Online Forums [closed]
How secure is Stack Exchange compared to online forums such as Reddit or Quora? Better? Worse? How difficult is it to hack and how secure is user information?
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How to know how many users already joined in a community of Stack exchange?
I am wondering whether there is a way to see the total number of users that have already joined in a community of Stack Exchange.
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Oops! Something Bad Happened! - Can't login
Created an account with my gmail and a random password on stackoverflow on 2012 and used a lot until 2013.
After a gap of a few years I'm back and since there was a more convenient "Login with Google"...
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What should I do about a user who wants to delete his account but doesn't know how?
Apparently, this user and this user both want to delete their accounts, but don't know how to do that. I would like to help them out in some way, but I'm not sure how I should help them. Should I ...
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How can we help non-malicious users oblivious to the fact that they have multiple accounts?
On Retrocomputing, I believe we have a user who has erroneously created multiple accounts.
Attempts to ask the user about this issue have been met with silence: 1 2 3.
I've mod flagged, but it looks ...
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Multiple accounts in the same household
I've been thinking about suggesting my wife makes a Stack Exchange account. I think she would benefit from and be a good contributor to at least a few different sites.
I know multiple accounts used ...
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Can I use Stack Overflow usernames in an academic paper?
I am writing a paper about Stack Overflow users, and I would like to mention some interesting findings about some users of the SO community. Is it OK to do so? Do I have to ask them personally or ...
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Expand content with user generated tutorials
After a brief discussion with @MonicaCellio (In the comment) - It has come to my attention that perhaps I chose the wrong words to describe my original idea (In the edit history). When I wrote "social ...
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Should I delete accounts I'm no longer active on?
I used to take part in the Earth Science SE actively, but now my focus has turned to StackOverflow and Arqade.
I could delete my account to show my inactivity. But I have over 200 reputation on that ...
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Why some superusers have Unicorn as profile pic? [duplicate]
Why some superusers(users with awesome reputation points) have Unicorn as profile pic?
I don't understand philosophy behind it.
You can check yourself ->
This account
And this account
And this ...
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Would you be so kind as to merge my accounts? [duplicate]
My long-standing account is 29328/theory. One I somehow created without meaning to is 2372825/david-e-wheeler. Would you either delete the second one or merge it into the first?
Thanks!
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I just answered a question from a removed user. And now?
I just answered this question. The name of the user who asked the question is gray, so I assume he/she is removed. Now what? Is anybody able to accept my answer (assuming it is correct for the moment, ...
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"User was removed" Rules
I was wondering if there are some rules of removing a user from a Stack Exchange website?
Can user be removed only due to violating the network's Terms of
Service or are there any other reasons of ...
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