delete my account
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I know it says I can’t delete my WordPress account. THAT IS BULLSHIT. How do I get in touch with someone to delete my account. I refuse to upgrade my account just so I can talk to someone. WordPress is such a scam. Had I known I couldn’t delete my account, I wouldn’t have signed up for this in the first place.
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Hi there!
You are only able to delete your site and all its content. You are not able to delete your account. WordPress keeps your username active to prevent someone from acquiring your username and misrepresenting you.
If you want to delete your site, you can follow some of the recommended steps:
1- Empty and delete your site. Consult the following guides:
– https://en.support.wordpress.com/empty-site/
– https://en.support.wordpress.com/delete-site/2 – Once this is done remove all personal information from your Account Settings and change your password to a random string. This will leave your account inactive and prevent you from gaining access to it in the future.
3- Unsubscribe from any email notifications from WordPress.com, go to your subscription settings and check the box that says Block all email updates from blogs you’re following on WordPress.com.
For more information, read the following guide:https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
Hope this helps!
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Yeah…. it definitely doesn’t. I don’t want any association with WordPress at all. I don’t care if someone misrepresents me. I want my account deleted.
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I know it says I can’t delete my WordPress account. THAT IS BULLSHIT. How do I get in touch with someone to delete my account.
When you registered your account you had to agree to our Terms of Service which of course includes all policies such as https://en.support.wordpress.com/deleting-accounts/
That was and remains a binding legal contract.
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.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
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 -
You also need to go to https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/domain-2283?replies=2#post-2962645
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