Deleting Profile

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  seminarywarrior · Member · Sep 8, 2016 at 2:18 am

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  I recently deleted my account but my profile still works, I was wondering how I could, if possible, delete my profile?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 8, 2016 at 2:21 am

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  Accounts cannot be deleted so we cannot be impersonated by anyone registering and using the same username in the future. Also note that Automattic Inc. owns wordpress.COM and also many other products and services listed here https://automattic.com/ that require a wordpress.COM account. Therefore, account deactivation is provided and account deletion is not provided.

  Registering an account here required
  (1) your consent to the Terms of Service http://wordpress.com/tos/ and all policies made under it found in the support docs like this one for Deleting Accounts http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/,
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  (2) an email address.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 8, 2016 at 2:22 am

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  You can go to My Account->Edit Profile at https://wordpress.com/me/account and remove all data except the account name and an email address. Create a throwaway email address and change the account email to that throwaway address. This only leaves the username behind.