Questions tagged [user-accounts]
Refers to user accounts either generically, or across the network.
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How can I destroy my profile? ("destroy", not "delete")
I read this post: 2023: a year in moderation. At the end of the array there is "Users destroyed".
I was curious to see in the settings but I only found "Delete profile", where is ...
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Club/Organization accounts
I just want to state for the record that this is something I am considering doing, not something that I have already done.
This site has a lot of interesting questions on it and I'm considering ...
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What can we do to deny bot-users a platform for their content?
I hardly ever visit Meta so forgive me if this has been addressed already. I just wanted to flag an issue:
The user Statistics Tutorial is a bot. So far I have deleted, along with other community ...
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Why: "Please Delete Account" name on a deleted user's card?
In this particular question, I saw the OP's deleted account written as "Please Delete Account":
But not like user11471113. Why?
The profile deletion ...
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About putting a -passed away- notice on some user’s profiles, but having prior approval from the close relatives
When a person passes away, usually a notice indicating this, is added on their profiles, or names (papers, etc).
For such users on the site, can the notice be implemented too? but having the prior ...
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Is this a new feature? Mentioning an user with @ becomes a link to their user ID.
In this post, the user @ mentioned a user and that became a link to his user ID. Usually, when we do this, it is not the case.
Is it a new feature?
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Alternate account to remind askers to accept answers when I am one of the answerers
There are many instances when a question receives satisfactory answers yet none of them is accepted. Specifically, in situations when the asker has explicitly commented below useful answers that their ...
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Disparity among users regarding question-posting ban
A few days ago, I lost the privilege of asking questions on MSE, because my questions are "not well-received" according to the system. Before losing this privilege, I had asked a total of $5$...
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Question on the Retaining or Forfeiture of Bounty Points When the Awarding User is Removed
My question is: If User A awards User B a bounty, say 500 points, and later on, User A either requests to be removed or is removed (i.e., ``User was removed''), does User B retain those 500 bounty ...
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Is it possible to view my account information while logged in?
I am currently logged in of course, but if some reason I get logged out I'll be in trouble since I don't remember my password. Is there any way to view my password and any other relevant account data ...
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Can I run a course project on Math.SE?
I'm an instructor at a North American university and I've been asked to teach an introductory group theory course online this summer. One of my learning goals emphasizes mathematical communication, ...
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How many hours has a user been on math.stack?
In this question, How much time a day is healthy to spend on MSE? OP asked this
"how many hours do you spend here?"
And made me think that if
Is it possible to know the total of hours that a user ...
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Extending the grace period for account deletion
In this recent post, one user suggested to extend the grace period for account deletion, given that they felt those points were valuable or could be used in some way.
Although the user has now ...
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Avoiding the lost of a user and the lost of more than 20k points [closed]
Using this query get post list of a deleted user or answers of a deleted user and estimated reputation of a deleted user I could realize that an specific no longer user had 722 answers and ...
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Is it possible to know the questions and answers by a no longer user?
When a user decides to delete their own account or when for some reason the account is deleted, then you can't see any information about the user, you can't click on the id "name" of the user.
Is it ...
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