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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by scotty79 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:42AM (#42646712)
Can't you still delete it or edit in the explanation that it's not actually your answer anymore?
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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by KabaKun on Thursday January 09, 2025 @02:46PM (#42649199)
Depends.

Delete - yes, if it's not the accepted answer or locked. But deleting highly-upvoted answers is generally discouraged.

Edit - Probably not. Editing to correct it might be possible if it's not locked but editing to add such a disclaimer would be problematic.

The best course of action would be to request disassociation, so that it's not attributed to them any more.

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Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by immibis on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:26AM (#42654073)
If you delete or edit a highly voted answer, the moderator undoes it and bans you. Happened to me.
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