How many LuaJIT experts do you suppose there are reviewing edits on Stack Overflow?
I'd expect mods familiar with Lua to recognize him, and he should have mod powers, to begin with.
Again, if he had just used his original account to edit his answer, he wouldn't have needed any of that.
He's a world class expert in compilers and high performance, low level programming on modern hardware.
This addresses the core point of the article, being that the SO "meritocracy" is badly implemented, and conflates heavy site usage with maturity and technical ability.
Edit: If not a mod status, a VIP status. SO would gain a lot if its staff were to individually recruit people as talented as he is.