Thomas Dalton wrote:
Aren't accounts with no edits meant to be automatically usurped? If so, it doesn't seem to be working. (Unless the accounts all have deleted edits, I suppose, but that seems unlikely.)
That was disabled. The feature as written was insecure, it allowed a malicious user to easily hijack a global account by creating an account with no edits before it was merged. Doing it properly was looking complicated, so it's disabled for now.
-- Tim Starling