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Originally Posted by ARC Tech-109
So why did you want your account deleted? Just sitting inactive is really no different as far as the world is concerned and on the flip side of that hanging around and maybe picking up some knowledge isn't such a bad thing...
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I get your point and tend to agree but something else happened that resulted in me going all OCD on securing/closing anything I didn't need right now. I was slowly shrinking my digital footprint since retiring a few years ago but several months ago, my main e-mail account was flooded with over 1,000 messages from all kinds of random sites - many asking me to "confirm my subscription" and such. My mind instantly went to "I'm being hacked" which sent me racing down a digital rabbit hole with anxiety in the red zone.
I don't want any of this to sound like making excuses - not my intent. Before retiring, I was in the IT field for 40+ years and saw the havoc that can be wreaked from hacked accounts and that surely played into all this - but is absolutely no excuse for my mess.
Very long story cut short, none of this justifies or excuses anything. I just hope to make it right. And I hate that y'all have had to deal with it - I honestly thought it would get my account banned and posts deleted quickly and everything back to normal for y'all.