Forum:Merge user profiles? (Answered question using wrong account)

Question

[antass]

I mistakenly logged into a wrong account on Biostars and answered a question. If it receives any up-votes, this secondary account's reputation will be affected, instead of my "true" one's.

Is there a way to merge two accounts on Biostars, or change the owner of a posted answer?

[Fedor Gusev]

What would you need a secondary account for?

[antass]

I wouldn't ;) However, when signing in on my cell phone for the first time, I got several options to choose from for signing in (Facebook, Google, GiHub). I chose GitHub, which automatically created a new account for me, as the email I use on GitHub is different from the one I use on Biostars (so the duplicated account wasn't detected despite the same username).

I noticed this when it was already too late (I already used the newly created account to answer a question).

[Istvan Albert]

currently we don't have account merges but we are planning to add this feature

[antass]

Would it be possible to have the account merged manually by an admin like in this thread: Biostar - Merging Of Accounts?

[Istvan Albert]

The system has been rewritten from ground up two times since that post. In this current version we do not have account merging but it is a feature that we plan to add. Once added you'll be able to merge these accounts.

[antass]

Ok, I understand. Thanks!

[Roman Valls Guimerà]

What is the state of the art on this? I've just imported a neuroinformatics mailing list (google group) into neurostars.org and I was wondering if there's an easy way to merge accounts in Biostars2 engine.

Thanks Istvan!

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

This has been implemented as a command line script, see this:

http://docs.biostars.org/en/latest/manage.html#merging-users