The idea seems nice however how would you do this merge things? There will be data loses and this could create a mess which could be bigger than account recovery.
It's not like they are recovering a large amount of accounts in a day. A program could be written to automate this but I would propose it be a manual adjustment carried out by the Admins. Like with anything there could be human error, but overall it would be simple addition, which I think is well within the skillset of Admins.
In the merging process we will see alter in merit system and trust system which is also against the forum rule. Remember merit and trust are not moderated.
Nothing about my suggestion has anything to do with moderating. In regards to feedback that can be handled by the users themselves, but would require users to know when dealing with an alt account. I suggested that because along with the good, should a member chose to be untrustworthy I feel the red tag should follow them.
Your right we would see an altering of Merit, but it would be more of a reallocation from the temporary account to the recovered account. There would be no net increase or decrease in the total amount in the system.
I don't recall anything in the rules prohibiting this. I would see this as a role filled by the Admin team.
I agree OP has good ideas & intentions but I think recovering the accounts would be easier to do than merging them, don't you agree?
Not to mention that you would keep your post history which is more important than any of those metrics.
You may have missed the general idea. This plan is in addition to account recovery. The idea is that after the account is recovered, the members original account be awarded the accrued activity and merit from the temporary account.
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