Keeping inactive sites on WordPress servers indefinitely

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  141217a · Member · Dec 20, 2014 at 9:02 am

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  Does anyone else think that it is unreasonable to keep inactive sites on WordPress servers indefinitely? Shouldn’t blogs be automatically deleted after a certain period of inactivity? Wouldn’t it also be easier to delete complete WordPress accounts and simply make the deleted usernames permanently unavailable for future use? Shouldn’t private material be deleted from the servers upon request regardless of authorship?

  At the moment there appears to be no way to delete a blog after an author has lost access to the blog and the email account that was used to create the WordPress account.

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  galois · Member · Dec 20, 2014 at 12:02 pm

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  Duplicate thread. You have been answered in this thread:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-blogs-i-cannot-access?replies=2#post-2176796

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  141217a · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 8:30 am

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  I was just able to re-register an email account that was recently closed due to inactivity. Shouldn’t blogs be automatically deleted after a certain period of inactivity also for safety reasons? Email addresses apparently aren’t made permanently unavailable for future use after an account has been closed due to inactivity. Anyone could hijack a blog simply by registering the same email account that has been used to create a WordPress account after the email account has been closed due to inactivity.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 9:16 am

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  No.