If he has well received submitted articles a karma collector comment to them (with links to an explanation post) wouldn’t seem inappropriate to me, especially since there is a karma limit on posting to main.
Or perhaps as single post in a well visited open thread thread titled “I made all these comments and posts” listing his best and a request to “please upvote because I’ve since gotten a new account!”. He can confirm that this is indeed the right account, and that he isn’t taking credit for someone else’s contributions by posting a link to the new account from an article written with the old one before it is deleted.
Losing about 700 karma is not so grave consequence (it’s about 2 months worth of karma based on eugman’s last 30 days gain) to justify non-standard karma mining posts or comments, which are small but still real inconvenience to the readers.
I agree it is not. But clearly he was asking for a way to keep the association with at least some of his posts so far, I was just brainstorming on how this might be achieved.
Also as time goes on [deleted] will have more and more articles to his name. The non-standard karma miner is an inconvenience agreed, but it is also a source of information for the reader. “Aha this [deleted] guy wrote this stuff too and now posts under this account!”
From what I understand he wants to keep an association with his “new profile name” and the old posts! Once he deletes his old account his old articles will be attributed to [deleted] and via the link, those that he chooses to associate, to his new account.
If he has well received submitted articles a karma collector comment to them (with links to an explanation post) wouldn’t seem inappropriate to me, especially since there is a karma limit on posting to main.
Or perhaps as single post in a well visited open thread thread titled “I made all these comments and posts” listing his best and a request to “please upvote because I’ve since gotten a new account!”. He can confirm that this is indeed the right account, and that he isn’t taking credit for someone else’s contributions by posting a link to the new account from an article written with the old one before it is deleted.
Losing about 700 karma is not so grave consequence (it’s about 2 months worth of karma based on eugman’s last 30 days gain) to justify non-standard karma mining posts or comments, which are small but still real inconvenience to the readers.
I agree it is not. But clearly he was asking for a way to keep the association with at least some of his posts so far, I was just brainstorming on how this might be achieved.
Also as time goes on [deleted] will have more and more articles to his name. The non-standard karma miner is an inconvenience agreed, but it is also a source of information for the reader. “Aha this [deleted] guy wrote this stuff too and now posts under this account!”
Fair enough. Creating a page linking to the important old posts is certainly useful. Only I wouldn’t include the “please upvote” request.
This seems like it undoes any security benefits from changing his name.
I’m not concerned with people here finding out who I am. I’m concerned with people who know who I am finding me here.
From what I understand he wants to keep an association with his “new profile name” and the old posts! Once he deletes his old account his old articles will be attributed to [deleted] and via the link, those that he chooses to associate, to his new account.