deletion of account

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  heyyougirlwhyyoucrying · Member · Jul 15, 2012 at 10:05 pm

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  Why can we not delete our accounts? Im sick to death of sites that do this. I’ll have to delete my email account and start afresh thanks to inconvenient sites like this
  Blog url: http://littlewingbroke.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 15, 2012 at 10:07 pm

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  The reasoning is found in th support documentation that I will link to.

  Username accounts are not deleted. For more information, please see http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  1. You can go to My Account->Edit Profile 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.

  2. To unsubscribe from email sent to you from WordPress.com, go here and click on “Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com”:
  http://wordpress.com/#!/following/subsettings/

  3. To ensure the account is locked up tightly, visit this site, generate a password of 15-20 characters, and change the account password to it:
  http://www.thebitmill.com/tools/password.html