Think we can just copy and paste N's answer into the accepted answer?

eh, wouldn't be right

I think upvoting it would be the 'best' option

@JourneymanGeek The problem is the accepted answer will always be at the top.

And it is the highest voted question I believe. 34 votes.

The thing for me is, its disingenious to replace one answer with another cause we subjectively think its better

The answers are all there. If someone searches they can decide for themselves which is best

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, it sounds PC to me.

I'm not going to replace it though.

Just going to add it on.

Community Wiki and all.

If Wikipedia had that attitude, we'd be hopeless IMO.

We arn't wikipedia- editing powers seem to me to be more janitorial than anything else. I'd note though, that would be a great blog article

@JourneymanGeek This is true.

hmm

@studiohack : superuser.com/questions/372743/… an account merger may be needed here

also, whats the right way of letting you guys know? flagging?

yeah, flagging or in here @JourneymanGeek, thanks! :)

also, we can't merge a greyed account, since its dead...

@studiohack: that might be a bit annoying - the question does belong to the user who posted a non-answer, and further edits might be needed

@JourneymanGeek its a dev thing :(

:/

I pinged a dev but got no response on that user. I've asked before for the ability to set ownership on abandoned posts, but so far no such luck

Assuming a user registered a second account that only answers the user's own questions. Could they be merged by the user's request? Is that against the TOS and would be punished?

I'd merge them. If they're upvoting each other that's a problem, but otherwise it's not really punishable @DanielBeck

@nhinkle I think the user's contributions are valuable, although primarily his questions, so I don't think he should be punished (except losing the self-upvoted rep).

What user? I can take a look for suspicious voting patterns.

Perhaps he doesn't even know that it's perfectly fine to self-answer and accept. We could message him letting him know about that.

It doesn't sound like a punishment sort of situation.

Given that the main user has tons on unvoted for questions, I don't think so either.

I think cwd/haxie is the same guy.

The most recent post (haxie answering with a link to cwd's blog) was kind of obvious :-)

Across quite a few sites even. Didn't see that before.

Hm. Pretty minimal overlap in IPs, no suspicious votes. I'll make a note, but not going to do anything about it for now. They might just be friends or something.

@nhinkle A friend doesn't answer exclusively your own questions on some web site, within minutes, every time. Or link to your own blog as quickly accepted answer to your question...

But as I said, maybe he just needs to be made aware that it's OK to answer his own questions, and I left a comment about that earlier.

So you could merge all the accounts if he asked about it?

It's trivial to merge accounts if the user asks for it, if that's what you mean

@nhinkle Yes. OK. Thanks.

I'll look a little more, but at this point, there hasn't been enough overlap to cause any significant rep alteration, so we don't really need to intervene. Let us know if he does end up requesting a merge though.

I agree that the circumstances are a bit odd, but it's not abusive, so I'm not inclined to intervene for now.

(FWIW, he's actually accepted more of your answers than of his "own")

@nhinkle As I wrote before, I think the user's contributions are valuable ;-)

I also have real questions, and "let's just document this somewhere" questions. He has more of the former kind, I have more of the latter.

I know, just reinforcing that I agree that no direct intervention is needed right now