mysterious account

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  1littleanastasia · Member · Jun 23, 2008 at 2:10 pm

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  Hi. I’m very new to wordpress.
  I tried to sign up for a wordpress account and blog recently (about 15 minutes ago) and I was told that the email address I gave was already in use. Out of curiosity, I clicked “lost password” and I was sent my username and new password. I signed in with the given information and saw that it had my avatar (the avatar I normally use) as a display pic.
  I’m quite certain this isn’t an account that I’ve signed up for a long time ago and then forgot about it because it has such a long and weird username.
  I’m just curious to know what is happening. Can somebody shed some light on this please?

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Jun 23, 2008 at 2:21 pm

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  Not here on the forums. We volunteers can’t look behind the scenes.

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Jun 23, 2008 at 2:22 pm

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  The g2-* account was created as part of our migration to the new Gravatar service. If you log into http://en.gravatar.com/ with your email address and password you will be prompted to finish your account and choose a nickname.

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  1littleanastasia · Member · Jun 23, 2008 at 4:54 pm

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  thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
  This solves my mystery then, thanks so much. =)

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Jun 23, 2008 at 5:12 pm

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  @mtdewvirus: Thanks. Now I know where to send the next weird alphanumeric username.

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  membracid · Member · Jun 27, 2008 at 5:13 pm

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  I am EXTREMELY unhappy about this process. I had an existing gravatar account, with the user name I wanted. (buggirl)

  Then I was unable to login to the WP forums because of this change–so I tried to get back into gravatar.com, and was unable to do so, because I got this crazy g2-character string name.
  I tried unsuccessfully to login again using the reset password–and it
  started setting up a new account!!
  It wouldn’t let me stop the process in the middle.
  Reload, no. Back button, no. Hit login, to go back to my previously
  existing account, I was always redirected to a choose a new name. When I tried the name I wanted–buggirl–It wouldn’t let me choose it.

  so I gave up and typed in what I was feeling at the moment–which was
  “f***** wordpress!!!”
  Lo and behold, THEN it recognizes me as the former buggirl account,
  and connects me.

  So my new account name is “Fuckseufgkghoadhl”

  Sigh.

  I can appreciate the humor in that, but it’s still pretty damn irritating that wordpress took away my name and, more or less, forced me to choose a new one. They did at least give me membracid back, I’ll give them that.

  Seriously, though–what colossal hubris makes WP think this is ok?