Timeline for Dealing with unregistered users answering their own questions with another account
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| Mar 12, 2013 at 5:25 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | I think most users who request account merges for themselves don't do so primarily out of concern for the well-being of the site as a whole, but so that they can comment on their own posts and on answers to their questions, edit their posts more easily, and (though maybe this is not as much of a motivation) accept answers. Emphasizing these benefits may help encourage merges. Since I think the driving force behind users requesting merges is not concern for "organization and site-cleanliness," I wouldn't expect sysadmins or any other group to request them more or less often than other users. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 20:41 | history | edited | Chris SMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2013 at 13:50 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | It's only been necessary for users to contact the team for the last month. Before that moderators could handle it. I see unmerged accounts almost daily; but can't fix them anymore. I sincerely doubt that user request merges in any sort of frequency that could be characterized as "often" on Server Fault. And I have a hard time believing that users on other sites generally care about organization and site-cleanliness more than SysAdmins. Perhaps it is just SF users though. Perhaps I'm bitter that the mistakes of poorly-chosen moderators on other sites screws me over and over. | |
| Mar 11, 2013 at 10:25 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | In my experience, at least on some other SE sites, users who have created multiple accounts unintentionally often follow instructions to use the contact us link to merge them. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 14:14 | history | answered | Chris SMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |