If, as an admin, for some good reason, I Anonymize a user’s account, and that person later rejoins (and convinces, of course, that they are the same person) can I use Merge to give the new account ownership of all the posts and badges and history of the old one?

Should do, I’ve done 2 merges in the past, I’ve never done it with an anon account, but in both cases they worked.

Can 'merge' be used to undo 'anonymize'?

JammyDodger April 13, 2022, 12:08pm 3

I believe so:

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