For a while I had an account with the name .  I asked to delete that account, because my English was too broad for understanding. Now it is a little bit better and I made a new account   The notifications go to my old account. Is it possible to fix it?  No, I don't want merge the two accounts. Deleting something means for me it's gone. But if there is no other way, I'll try to merge it.
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I accidentally posted a question without being logged in. Is there a way to associate that question with my account?   For more information, visit &quot;&quot; in the .   a.k.a. How can you link a registered account to a cookie-based account? a.k.a. How do I merge an unregistered account with a registered account a.k.a. Merging users a.k.a. How do I associate anonymous questions I’ve asked with my registered account? a.k.a. Is there a way to claim an unregistered user? (in case anyone searches with those terms)
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If you use an @notification in chat messages it will notify the corresponding user with a small circle (or snowman) on their gravatar and (if enabled) a sound effect.   Now, when you have notified a user that way they will be notified again if you edit the message containing the @notification. I don't think this behaviour is optimal. In most cases I don't really want to ping the user again; I just want to correct some small typo.  I suggest to change the behaviour to not repeat the ping when posts are edited.
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I posted a bug just now () and then I guess I encountered another one.  Usually, after someone else answered my question, the SE would send me a notification.  about 8 mins ago, a nice guy answered one of my questions on ELL (). I haven't received that notation since.   On the other hand, I did receive other notifications, which are for some comments on the bugged question and another question.
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This may seem really trivial, but somehow it really annoys me.  I'm somewhat OCD, so I can't bear to have any unread notifications. Sometimes, when I'm reading a post, and I see a notification, I'll click it, see what it is, then quickly return. However, the notification icon is still there, and I have to refresh to get rid of it.  Also, if I write a comment, then click a link on the page, then click the back button, I have to refresh to see the comment I made.  Yup. I know, first world problem... but it really bothers me. Besides, it's all in the details.  Is this due to the way that the browser caches pages, or a bug in stackexchange?
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The fact that a user can change their name at will can lead to some confusion in the comments.  For instance, suppose a user named "foo" changes his name to "bar", all those comments signed by "foo" are now signed by "bar", but responses to "bar"'s comments still start with "@foo".  Could those "@foo" references in comments be changed to "@bar"?    A brief discussion on this has set me straight.  I didn't think it through.  Request withdrawn.
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I have three accounts among the multiple accounts I have for Google's products. One of them belongs to a friend who accidentally made his account one of mine when he was using my PC.  How do I remove his account from my Google multiple accounts? Logging out from his account doesn't work. His account still displays under the user dropdown even though I can't log in to it.
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There a  who has no valid parent user. It is indicated that his chat account is associated to a Maths.SE account, which does not appear to exist. The user was still able to chat. Is it normal? If it's a bug, could someone look into it?  Edit: if you browse the Google cache for users named Skullpatrol, it turns out a single series of associated accounts. The user is now named . I don't know what went wrong, maybe an account merge or something like that, but it needs someone from staff looking into it with some superpowers. I also tried to update the parent user of the chat account to this &quot;Rob&quot; profile, but the interface goes all buggy on me (works for other users, fails only for this one):
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At the moment, I have the latest notification in the global inbox, content of which does not correspond either to the comment itself or the copy of it on "recent responses" page. This seems like the comment was edited and the updated version was not copied to the global inbox.    ETA: OK, now this looks more coherent.
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On the  are two categories: "Reputation &amp; Privileges" and the seemingly redundant "Privileges". Both have a small entry count and were likely intended to be merged.  They probably should be merged or the first should be renamed to "Reputation".  Showing the word "Privileges" twice looks like a mistake.
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How can I delete my Stack Exchange account(s)? Also,  What happens to my content? Can I request it be deleted as well? What if I'm suspended, rate-limited, or banned from posting questions or answers? What will happen to my votes? Will other users be impacted? Why wasn't my account deleted immediately after the timer expiring? What will happen to my pending bounties and close, reopen, delete, or undelete votes? I want my account deleted on all Stack Exchange sites. How do I do this? Will my profile on chat be removed once I delete my site account?   For more information, see &quot;&quot; in the .
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The message that appears in the reputation tab of a user's profile when they gain or lose reputation due votes disappearing when another user is deleted is simply:     user was removed   This message is confusing and unhelpful. Below are comments that demonstrate this confusion, . I don't have any quotes from the users who could not find it and remained confused.  There is , and . However, the message has not been changed.  I know that in the past the developers have been reluctant to direct users to meta in some situations, such as question bans, because it may cause users to post here appropriately. That does not seem to apply to this case. This is not typically a case of ""; most of us have probably seen the message at some point.  Why is this message vague and unlinked? What negative behaviour does this confusion mitigate?       My first interpretation was that I was the user who was removed!        I just simply wished the explanation on the reputation page was better. Seems like I shouldn't have had to come to the meta section to figure this out.        It must be better to show "User  was removed". For a moment I just thought that I was removed :-(        the information should be better. I lost 10 points yesterday by "user removed" and assumed that I was the one being removed, leaving me wondering why and feeling somewhat embarrassed.         The recalc policy is fine. But the red mark and "user was removed" looks cryptic and unnecessarily negative--especially since the only user name mentioned on a profile is one's own. So the natural impulse is to bind "user" to the account you're looking at. (It was jarring to me and I could tell what it meant, but still this could be clearer.) I agree that orange is better than red and ideally all of these things would have hyperlinks to a help page (or at least a meta post) explaining what the deal is.        +1 (to HostileFork) for the idea of linking to an explanation of 'User was removed'. It just took me 10+ minutes to find this particular thread and read through, when I could have simply clicked through! I would also like a little more info on why user was removed (abuse, friend upvotes, rules, etc) , as that could help educate the community as a whole on what behaviors to report.        I could care less about the rep gain or loss, but when you have a loss it is a scary message without context. I honestly thought for a moment that my account had been inhibited in some way. No, it didn't say "Your account was removed." Still, there is that moment of "what did I do wrong?" which seems silly to cause simply by not posting a few extra words. A clearer "A user who voted on your posts was removed along with reputation changes they caused" would have gone a long way to not cause me to question my participation in the review queues as of late.         My problem is that the message "user has been removed" is not a clickable link like the other messages - so I had to search meta to discover this question to find out what it meant.
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When someone deletes an account, the upvotes they left on comments are not removed. When they create another account, they can upvote these comments once again.  This is a problem, as you can give a comment as many upvotes as you want by:   Upvoting the comment Deleting your account Repeating 1 and 2 ad infinitum   This can even be done very quickly, since upvoting a comment doesn't require you to contact SE to delete your account (the "Delete" button will remain in your profile settings).  Please wipe the comment votes when a user is deleted. Right now it is very easy for users with the +100 rep bonus to game the system and disrupt discussions.
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So the problem is that account 1 and account 2 bought a game together, but account 1 isn't used anymore. Can we transfer the game license from account 1 to account 3?   The game was bought on account 1 and account 2 activated account 1 as primary.
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My daughter's account has been taken over by an other person. It is the second time in four days, What to do?   She already asked twice for a new log in way, she logged in successfully, but the next day the account was again taken over.
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I deleted my AcademiaSE profile, and nearly had a heart attack  (do-not-reply@stackoverflow.email) with a subject line of "Your profile has been deleted".  Why is this notification sent from an email address that appears to be for another site on the network?
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Let's see if anyone can answer this in under 4 seconds. I know a notification is sent by using @user in a comment, but what about questions and answers?  I was going to make a fake user and message myself to try it, but I figured a question is the more acceptable way to find out the answer.
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I had one account through Google with email X and another account through myopenid.com. I happened to add the same email X to this myopenid.com account. My intention was to stop using the Google account in favor of the new myopenid.com account.   After some time asking and answering questions with my openid.com account I am astonished to find out that it is now merged into my Google account. That creates all kinds of privacy issues. I thought the email on my Stack Overflow account was private. Did I miss anything here?  To be clear, I wanted to preserve my privacy in the second account, but now since all my recent questions were transferred to the old account, my privacy is completely lost.  And it looks like there is no verification for the email field in my profile, so if Stack Overflow is using that info to merge, there is a very serious security bug. If it is merging based on something else, that's even worse. I think your account belongs to that user here. Let me merge it. Terrible!