Why is my Stack Overflow account inaccessible?

I tried to get on Super User (for the first time)

Your original account has a Super User profile associated with it that's about 2 years old. Are you sure you've never been on Super User before? :)

It's unfortunately difficult to reconstruct exactly what happened here. It sounds like our global authentication is at play + some form of error on login. I don't see any exceptions in our logs, so that trail kind of dies there.

I merged your two accounts, so you should be back to one (your original) with the same Stack Exchange credential you've been using.

We'll also look into improving the "My logins" part of the profile to make it more clear what editing it will do.

Sorry 'bout the inconvenience and the confusion.

6 Votes

Adam Lear
March 25, 2015 19:56 PM

After Anna's answer I can reconstruct what happend. I'll just post it as an answer for future reference. (I tried as a comment, but it was kind of hard to read.)

1. Contrary to what I declared earlier, I have been on SuperUser before. I associated my old profile with that site, a few years back.
2. I logged back into SuperUser today, only to find out that it was associated with a long-forgotten profile of mine, with personal details I don't wish to expose (anymore).
3. I thought it was my first time on SuperUser and thought it had somehow revitalised my old profile.
4. I panicked and deleted all my logins, thinking that would sort things. (Shouldn't have done that.)
5. That had some results I didn't expect.

What I should have done, is just delete the unused SuperUser profile and log back in to create a new one profile with the correct profile settings (the same as I'm using on Stack Overflow now).

1 Votes

Sherlock
March 25, 2015 20:03 PM