Refers to user accounts either generically, or across the network.
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RSS feed of your favorite tags
It would be nice if we could subscribe to an RSS feed of all the questions that match your 'favorite' tags i.e. an RSS feed of the questions that get highlighted as yellow when viewing the question ...
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How can I delete my account?
How can I delete my Stack Exchange account(s) and what happens to content I've posted when my account gets deleted?
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Why does Neil Butterworth say “please delete me”?
What happened to Neil Butterworth's account? His about section says "please delete me". I have never seen him saying "please".
By the way what happened to his reputation score?
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Why would people want to purchase Stack Overflow accounts versus creating a new one?
I posted a new question on SO this afternoon and immediately after received an offer by e-mail to purchase my StackOverflow account. I'm confused as to why someone would even consider purchasing an ...
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Stack Exchange user page URL is frightening!
I'm pimping myself networking on other sites, and rather than linking to my stackoverflow profile, I'm considering linking to my Stack Exchange profile.
I didn't realize I had such a scary looking ...
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Lost 15,000 reputation, userid changed, but user still associated with 470 answers!
I'm not sure how but my userid on Stack Overflow changed from "progrmr" to "Gary A Morris" and my rep went from 15k+ to 21. My "new" userid on SO appears to be user154803. Questions that I've ...
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Implement Mozilla Persona for login?
Are there plans to implement the Mozilla Persona login system?
(imho) The Mozilla team are clearly a great presence on the web and the technologies that they look after are of great worth and have ...
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Super-pinging users by site account number creates duplicate users, causes confusion and gnashing of teeth
It's really convenient to use the moderator-ping (@@<userid>@<sitename>stackexchange.com) to summon users into a chat room.
Unfortunately, this tends to create duplicate chat users if ...
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Two accounts were merged, but they were used by different people
My business partner and I have separate accounts, separate email addresses, separate profiles, across several StackExchange sites. Mysteriously, we now see that his account was merged into mine.
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How should I flag a user account if it has no posts to flag?
It came up in chat that a spammer's account needed destroyed; their posts had been deleted but their name (which was offensive) still showed up on the front page as updates to posts and their user ...
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Can we report / do anything about a persistent troll?
First of all, please note the precedent: Dealing with persistent trolls: “see the newsgroups guy” - Jeff himself has posted about a similarly troublesome account. This is also tangentially related ...
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It's way too easy to spam the site. How can we make it harder without sacrificing usability to new (legit) users?
After the last (not so big thanks to Shog(\o/)) blast of spam a couple users and I (with a mod) decided to run some tests. We found that it's extremely easy to post a spam question. Ridiculously ...
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Can my less than 3 character username be grandfathered in when I edit my profile?
When trying to edit my SO profile, it will not let me save any changes to my profile, since my username (yc) is below the 3 character limit:
Now, when I created my username, it was of legal length. ...
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How can I leave just one site?
I have accounts on several stackexchange sites. I do not wish to be removed from all of them, just one or two that I never really use and am no longer interested in. Is this possible? If so, how? If ...
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Does Stack Exchange have a “Verified Account” feature?
Is there a "Verified Account" feature at Stack Exchange like the one used by twitter? If not, should there be?
I ask because I just saw this answer from new user "Jeffrey Richter," and I am not ...
