API allows for duplicate Discord User accounts to be connected to one User

[kristoferlund]

This happens when you start with a fresh db with dummy data and then activate your account using the bot. Two Discord user accounts.

[mattyg]

I think it's correct behavior that multiple user accounts on the same platform can be linked to the same user. Why disallow it?

I think there might be some confusion around the seeder? In seed.ts, the function seedPredefinedUsers seeds a User and UserAccount for all "admin" ethereum address statically defined in PREDEFINED_USERS. Because your ethereum address is in PREDEFINED_USERS it seeds a user with your ethereum address and a connected user account. Then when you activate a user account on discord with the same ethereum address, it is also connected to the already existing User.

[kristoferlund]

I think it's correct behavior that multiple user accounts on the same platform can be linked to the same user. Why disallow it?

Perhaps (most likely) you are right. Me and Rudolf discussing this at length but I cannot remember what would be the reason to disallow it.

Closing this issue.

[kristoferlund]

I'm opening this issue again. The real world usecase for this is an edge case. I have never heard about a situation where one individual is involved in one community under more than one discord user. Unless one user is some sort of test account or similar.

Even though it is not technically complex to allow multiple user accounts for one platform it creates complexity elsewhere. I just opened up #402 for instance. If the rule is one user = one discord account and one telegram account then we can easily create a csv export like this:

user.id user.etherumAddress discord.accountId discord.name telegram.accountId  telegram.name
1       0x123               1324243           user#1244    8769876             cool_user
2       0x123               134243            user#9899    8987589             not_so_cool_user

@mattyg Wouldn't it be reasonable to say that currently: one user has one user account per platform?

We can always open up the possibility for more than one account later. But I do believe it is an edge case.

[mattyg]

I'm opening this issue again. The real world usecase for this is an edge case. I have never heard about a situation where one individual is involved in one community under more than one discord user. Unless one user is some sort of test account or similar.

Even though it is not technically complex to allow multiple user accounts for one platform it creates complexity elsewhere.

Yeah good point. Makes sense to me!