Deleting my account
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I want to delete my account. It is unnacceptable that I cannot delete my account. I have deleted my sites which were hidden – and yet users could ‘follow’ them. I cannot trust this site and don’t want to have anything else to do with it, so have had to delete all my posts and files simply because I don’t want them visible at the moment. Please action this and let me know when it has been done.
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You could have made any blog content posts and/or pages or even a whole blog private rather than freaking out and deleting the blog based on misinformation.
blog visibility http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
post visibility http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-visibility/
page visibility http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/However it’s too late for that now. Deleted blog URLs are not recycled, regardless of who registered and deleted them and no exceptions are made.
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All you were required to provide to register an account here was an email address that can be replaced at any time.
Any personal information that you voluntarily posted can also be removed at any time.
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”:
http://wordpress.com/#!/following/subsettings/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, please read “How do I hide my profile?” section of the help page: http://en.gravatar.com/site/faq/#answer-1-8
IMPORTANT NOTE: Deleting blogs and/or blog content does not remove any indexed items from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.
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P.S. You were told one year ago how to make the blog private right here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-take-a-blog-offline?replies=2#post-837672
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Yes – I did as instructed with my blog a year ago and it said on my Dashboard that the blog was ‘hidden’ – and yet I was able to access it today via its web address. Perhaps saying the blog was ‘hidden’ wasn’t enough or I did it incorrectly, but it was what I was instructed to do on the previous post!
I deleted the blog as I no longer want a blog but I also do not want to have an inactive, dormant account. You would think with identity fraud that WordPress would encourage people to delete accounts that won’t be used!
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