I have seen a double question from the same user: 1 and 2, and reported it.
But looking at the profile of the same, I see only the old question, like if the new one didn't exist. Is that an edit of the other, it's a refresh problem or what?
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Those are two different users (see the user IDs in the urls), though with the same display name and gravatar. They are almost certainly the same person, so a moderator will likely merge the accounts which will remove this discrepancy.
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1\$\begingroup\$ How can that be possible? Are double nicknames allowed? \$\endgroup\$ – clabacchio♦ Feb 23 '12 at 11:24
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\$\begingroup\$ Yes, they are allowed. User names are not unique on this site. \$\endgroup\$ – user5104 Feb 23 '12 at 11:28
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1\$\begingroup\$ @clabacchio - To be clear, having multiple accounts to upvote your own posts, to circumvent blocks, etc. is not allowed. Making a duplicate account intentionally to pretend to be someone else is not allowed. However, if someone else named, say, "Fabian" wanted to sign up, they could both use the name. \$\endgroup\$ – Kevin Vermeer Feb 23 '12 at 15:47
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\$\begingroup\$ @clabacchio If you want to learn more see meta.electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/654/… \$\endgroup\$ – Kellenjb Feb 28 '12 at 14:03
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\$\begingroup\$ @Kellenjb thanks, I've learnt many things about stackexchange and Jeff :) \$\endgroup\$ – clabacchio♦ Feb 29 '12 at 10:21
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As Fabian pointed out, those are two different users. One is unregistered, while one is a registered user who also has an account on Stack Oveflow.
It seems that the user attempted to edit their question, but was not logged in.
I've closed question 1 as a dupe and merged it into 2. I also merged the unregistered user into the registered user. Now, both questions show up under the remaining user:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/users/8254/polash?tab=questions
