But do they ever use the phrase "self-plagiarism"?
They indeed do (wouldn't have used it first place otherwise), it mostly comes up when they talk about research, papers and publishing, but "it's actually a thing"
At the same time, there's this little pissy-mooded, intolerant jerk that's sitting on my shoulder whispering in my ear that he is indeed trying very hard to earn merits and that it isn't outside the realm of possibility that he would employ alt accounts to ask questions that he could then post what look like high-quality, thoughtful answers to.
My sleep and coffeine deprived mind wants to think that way too, and getting to read in a few places about this particular user, without not knowing about his existence before that has raised a few flags back in the morning. I however thought about raising a white flag and letting it go just for a change.
PS: I may want to pick your brain about a certain non-related thing in a few minutes
PS2: The M on the MD stands for Masters' in this particular case