WHAT HAPPENS IF I DELETE MY YAHOO ANSWERS ACCOUNT?

i use yahoo messenger to talk to my friends
if i delete my yahoo answers account do i then delete me whole yahoo messenger thing?

?2010-01-06T13:09:51Z

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Hi!

After 4 months of not using the account yahoo deletes accounts that are inactive
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/account/account-04.html

But, if you want to close your Yahoo! account, you can follow the steps
Go to here:
https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user

Then do the following:
● Login with your current username and password
● Select which account that you want to delete
● Enter in your password once again for verification purposes
● Enter in the anti-spam code; this is to prevent automated submissions
● Click Terminate This Account to finish off this process.

* When you close your account, you lose access to your Yahoo! ID, Yahoo! Mail, and profile names. We will delete your account data and settings across the Yahoo! network. This means you will lose all of your content in:

Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Address Book
Yahoo! HotJobs
My Yahoo!
Yahoo! Groups
Finance Portfolio

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Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever2010-01-06T11:14:49Z

Only the YA team can DELETE your account.
Closing your EMAIL ID deactivates the YA account, but you also lose everything attached to that email account -- like messenger. After 4 months, the YA profile WILL disappear.

But ALL Q&A from that profile are still visible & searchable on site. IN VOTING or RESOLVED Q&A remain the property of Yahoo.

The safest thing to do is:
First, click your avatar and:
► Delete open questions and answers to open questions
….(Others will remain on the site)
► Remove all Contacts
Then click 'edit my info'. There:
► Blank out your avatar, nickname and 'About Me'.
► Close links to Yahoo Profile, IM and/or email.
► Disallow fans.
► Set Network and Q&A to private.
Then just leave.

?2010-01-06T11:13:20Z

You cannot delete your answers profile without deleting your entire yahoo account which includes your email and all yahoo sites. http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/edit/changing_users/edit-23.html?terms=close+account
What you can do is set your profile to private, including your network, disallow fans, remove all of your contacts, disallow email and IM change your avatar to the gray smiley face, remove your nickname and delete open questions. Do not go to the answers site at all and after 4 months yahoo will close your answers account.

Anonymous2016-03-03T09:45:14Z

delete your account and see yourself.

Anonymous2010-01-06T11:13:22Z

I Think Sooo

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