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  ladyluck622 · Member · Oct 24, 2017 at 4:31 pm

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  I do not want to leave an empty site. I do not want to leave my email attached to a blog page I can no longer access. That would be very irresponsible and if it was hacked could cause long-term damage. I want the account deleted, please.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 24, 2017 at 4:32 pm

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  Hi there,

  Here’s how to deactivate your account:
  Although username accounts are not deleted, so you cannot be impersonated and have your reputation affected by anyone registering the same username in the future, there are steps you can take that amount to removing all personal information and result in leaving only a throwaway email address behind. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

  1. You can go to My Account->Edit Profile at https://wordpress.com/me/account 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.

  Free disposable email address https://www.google.ca/search?q=free+disposable+email+address&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=Jf0mWaWKPMOD0wLgg6bYBQ

  2. To unsubscribe from email sent to you from WordPress.com, go here and click on “Block all subscription emails from WordPress.com”:
  https://wordpress.com/settings/notifications/

  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

  4. To hide your Gravatar profile, login and on the bottom right hand corner of your Gravatar profile page you will find a “hide” button visible only to you that you can click. http://en.gravatar.com/support/profile-privacy

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting sites and/or site content or making the site private does not remove indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results) and we cannot help with that. Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months. To completely remove an entire page from Google search results after it produces a 404 (page not found):
  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6332384?hl=en&ref_topic=1724262&vid=0-635749429504660340-12158368555624983465&rd=1

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  timethief · Member · Oct 24, 2017 at 4:35 pm

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  http://ladyluck622.wordpress.com is no longer available.
  The authors have deleted this site.

  If you have others sites then you can either make them private http://support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ or delete them as you did with that one.

  re: deleting sites

  All sites are independent. What you do on one or to one has no impact on any other site. To delete a WordPress.COM hosted site you must be logged in as Admin under the exact same username account that registered the blog to navigate to Dashboard > Tools > Delete Site. The guide is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/ note the alternatives provided there.

  Prior to deletion warnings are issued. Deleted wordpress.COM blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and the only exceptions are made are for URLs that were deleted 2 or more years ago. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/

  https://wordpress.com/settings/delete-site/NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com

  *Replace “NAME_OF_BLOG” with the actual name of the blog in the URL above.

  If you are not logged in under the correct WordPress.COM username account then clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies prior to logging into another account

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  ladyluck622 · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 10:20 pm

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  You did not answer my question. I know how to deactivate my account. I asked how to delete my account. If you cannot provide help with this question, please, find someone who can.Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 25, 2017 at 11:14 pm

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  I answered you correctly. Although username accounts are not deleted, so you cannot be impersonated and have your reputation affected by anyone registering the same username in the future, there are steps you can take that amount to removing all personal information and result in leaving only a throwaway email address behind. http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/

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  gemmacevans · Member · Oct 26, 2017 at 7:59 am

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  Hi ladyluck622,

  I know how to deactivate my account. I asked how to delete my account.

  As @timethief mentioned, accounts can be deactivated. Since we don’t want other people to have your username in the future, we don’t delete the usernames themselves (they are kept so they cannot be recycled).

  Our Deleting Accounts documentation lists several ways to remove your personal information.

  Removing personal information from your Account Settings page will mean your details are scrubbed from the account — and those details will no longer be connected to that username.

  Thanks.