SET ME FREE?

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  jesholtjewellery · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 8:37 pm

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  GIVE ME BACK MY EMAIL ADDRESS. You have locked my address into a wordpress account without warning me that you would hold my email address forever (unless i give you another hostage). YOU BASTARDS!
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  timethief · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 8:39 pm

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  I find your allegation to be outrageous and offensive. If you cannot clearly state what your issue is like a mature adult then you can twist in the wind.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 8:40 pm

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  Though Username accounts are not deleted at wordpress.com http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/ please note the following:

  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

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  jesholtjewellery · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 9:08 pm

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  Thank you for your replies.

  “I find your allegation to be outrageous and offensive.” BUT TRUE,
  as you note in the next reply: “…Username accounts are not deleted at wordpress.com.” (CAN NOT be deleted would be more accurate.)

  “If you wish to leave WordPress.com, you can just leave your account inactive.” This is false information. Leaving your account inactive does not get you away. You are not a free agent. Whenever you try to leave a comment on another wordpress.com blog, as soon as you give your email address, it will insist on you logging in to the account that you have tried to escape from.

  If i go through the rigamarole of setting up a dummy email address and following the rest of the process you describe, i’ve still locked away the username.

  if i try to change the user name, right now anyway, i get a message that says come back in a few days.

  i’m assuming there’s some complex programming reason why wordpress.com can’t allow deletions. if so, at the very least they should give a big and clear warning at the start of the process.

  Anyway, thanks for delineating the process. I will obviously have to take it as the next best thing to freedom – but i guess i’ll have to wait a few days until i am allowed to change the name, assuming that day comes.

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  jesholtjewellery · Member · Aug 15, 2012 at 9:10 pm

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  oops, should have made it clear, this quote…
  “If you wish to leave WordPress.com, you can just leave your account inactive.”
  …is not from your reply but from text of the first link in your reply.