I had two separate accounts. Google merged them despite my telling them not to.

Seems to me HN covered this:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/VZSLjkdq...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745525

http://i.imgur.com/YgEjUuI.jpg

Google's proven it cannot be trusted to respect user choice, nor to not arbitrarily change the rules at a later date.