Delete My Account
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Can anyone give me a freaking email that I can send a request to??? Why do I have to go through hell in order to get a contact email? This is one of the shittiest customer service I’ve ever encountered… JUST PUT A F*CKING EMAIL ON THE SUPPORT PAGE!!!!
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Duplicate thread : https://en.support.wordpress.com/help-support-options/
Hi @skylerbenjamin –
Here are the various ways that you can contact support for your WordPress.com blog. https://en.support.wordpress.com/help-support-options/
WordPress.com is unable to delete user accounts. You can leave your account inactive and unsubscribe from all WordPress.com emails. Instructions can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
To delete your blog(s): https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/
Please let me know if you need further help.
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staff-zinnia Thanks for your reply, but:
1. https://en.support.wordpress.com/help-support-options/ – This link is as useful as a potato. None of the links get me to a direct contact email to which I can send personal requests.
2. Refusing to delete my account is a severe violation of my privacy, and since I don’t know whether you’re a WordPress.com employee or a casual user, I would like to get the attention of someone with authority.
3. I would also like to emphasize that I DO NOT WISH TO DELETE ANY BLOGS, as I do not have any. As I mentioned earlier, I simply wish to D-E-L-E-T-E M-Y A-C-C-O-U-N-T. For good. Jeez.
Thanks again, hope there’s someone out there who can actually help me.
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@skylerbenjamin
Hi there,
Accounts cannot be deleted so we cannot be impersonated by anyone registering and using the same username in the future. Also note that Automattic Inc. owns wordpress.COM and also many other products and services listed here https://automattic.com/ that do require a wordpress.COM account. Therefore, account deactivation is provided and account deletion is not provided.Registering an account here required
(1) your consent to the Terms of Service http://wordpress.com/tos/ and all policies made under it found in the support docs like this one http://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/,
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(2) an email address.Any personal information you posted anywhere was posted voluntarily. Both the email address and personal information can be removed or replaced at any time.
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 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”:
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.html4. 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 blogs and/or blog content 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 -
Yeah yeah @timethief, I saw the very same reply you made on someone else’s topic a while ago, and strangely I thought WordPress might have changed their account deleting policy.
Thank you for your answer, but you haven’t solved the problem. Changing the email and making a new, random password doesn’t have the same effect as deleting the account. I specifically requested an account removal because deleting comments on WordPress is ALSO impossible (Like, wtf?)…
Anyway, on behalf of anyone who ever tried to delete their account, I hereby call WordPress to change their atrocious, privacy-wrecking policy. It’s 2016 for f*ck’s sake, why can’t I delete a freaking account?..
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