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Nil he can still merge his accounts, and his reputation will be merged with it. If there was something they needed to do but couldn't they could flag the question for a moderator to help out.
There are quite a few benefactors around the site, asking (politely ) in chat can sometimes get you a bounty for your question. The best way is to gain more reputation so you can bounty it yourself :)
Just so you know, bit.ly links are now disabled in the system. You actually can't post a question with bit.ly links in them and if you edit a question with a bit.ly link it'll be rejected until you remove the link.
Unless it's a bug about Ubuntu-Touch, then the question will likely need to stay open. Other than that it follows the typical questions about ubuntu+1 policy. To be honest there is very little special. Most all questions that aren't about bugs will fall under the bullet points listed in that policy. I'm not sure why people think this is anything special. The difference about most software and this is this is a "stewarded" tag, meaning upstream is actively monitoring it/using it for support.
