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Deduplicate accounts sharing the same email

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Since Jul 27, 2026.

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Description

Social login used to create duplicate accounts when the email already belonged to a pending (inactive) signup — fixed forward in https://github.com/Metaculus/metaculus/pull/5094, but some duplicate-email groups remain in prod. Most are same-session accidents ("started email signup, then clicked Sign in with Google") where the older account has zero activity and can simply be deleted;

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