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Case in point:

https://dsp.stackexchange.com/posts/62182/revisions

shows that Man and user46417 are one and the same user.

Personally, I'd recommend a deletion of the "unnamed" user with pointing out that multi-usering is discouraged, but I don't know policy on that.

EDIT: Ah, Meta.SE says that accounts can be merged, so this now becomes a merge request, unless Man engaged in "sockpuppeteering" (i.e. using user46417 to upvote himself).

EDIT2: The edit history of Difference between repeated poles and non repeated poles? might suggest that also abjt and Man are the same person, although it's not that conclusive; abjt might simply have been sitting next to Man and overly eagerly tried to specify Man's question and changed directions of the question in the process. I'll simply ask.

EDIT3: OK, this is starting to feel like a conspiracy theory, but engr's Image processing vs signal processing? is, especially in the final sentence, so much like image processing vs Computer vision? that it defies the feeling of a likely coincidence.

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It's not clear to me that Man and user46417 are the same. The system logs IP addresses and registered email addresses and both are very different for each user. I can also see that the two are not acting as "sock puppet" accounts. Again, the system flags cross-support and neither shows any activity like that.

Perhaps they're just interested in the same thing?

The only time merging accounts happens is at the request of the user.

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    $\begingroup$ I very much like that policy (user request only), and I'm very much happy that these aren't sock puppets. To clarify again, dsp.stackexchange.com/revisions/62182/3, especially considering the edit title, is imho pretty clear in that Man and user.... share the same brain. $\endgroup$ Dec 4, 2019 at 8:26
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    $\begingroup$ @MarcusMüller Yup, sometimes that happens. Thanks for raising it, it's worth discussion. $\endgroup$
    – Peter K. Mod
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    $\begingroup$ I believe such a double faced user should already be connecting through proxies or VPNs to hide himself ? I don't know if the site allows VPN connection though... $\endgroup$
    – Fat32
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    $\begingroup$ @Fat32 Sure, they could do that. However, the system has flagged no abuses by the two users, apart from the slightly collusive behaviour noticed by Marcus. $\endgroup$
    – Peter K. Mod
    Dec 16, 2019 at 0:42

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