What happens when I delete a blog
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Do you own these forums? Your time is quite condescending at times. Perhaps you mean to be direct. Careful of your word choices.
As I stated before, I DID ask the question outright and the topic was closed before the question was posted. I did see the topic closed for others with similar questions in comments of others topics – no answer but the topic was immediately closed thereafter. I was cautious this time and got my questions in later after beginning vague – by design.
Thanks for the info on finding someone else who might be the owner. I looked there already and no owner was listed. After deleting the blog, I was able to purchase the .com today. Coincidence? Maybe.
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The metrics to a good forum, IMHO, include response time but are not limited to such. Other factors are searchability, knowledge of members, expert (so to speak) monitors, and positive/helpful attitude of members. Searching is not easy. Wealth if knowledge it seems! – That’s a plus. Not seen any moniters. I have though seen antagonistic and rude responses, at best seen as condescending, demeaning and irritated.
Maybe, since this a techy group, removing my profile pic to something more gender neutral would help. Not certain that’s all that’s going on here though.
At any rate. My problem is solved. Thank you, all!
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You can hardly complain that the forum didn’t answer your question when you refused to ask the question. Once you asked it, the question was answered.
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You seem to be taking ownership of my response and this thread. My remarks are meant generally, not only toward you.
(To complete the rhetoric on the issue: The second anyone indicates the existence of privilege means that they are subscribing to the existence of the ism in question. If someone truly believes the one, then they are also admitting their subscription to the other. Please notice the generalities. I’m not accusing you, and you might be served to take things less personally.)
For the solutions, I thanked the commenters, including you. My assessment of the metrics for forums stands.
Have a great day!
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Just an observation on domain names – I doubt that someone is grabbing .COM names based on someone starting a blog here –
I doubt that you are the only one with your name –
for WordPress.COM to play that game would be a very bad business model for two reasons –
1) cost – with thousands of blogs being created here each day it would just cost too much money
2) as soon as that leaked out there would be a very bad backlash against the company and the company’s ethics would be questioned
There are many squatters that grab domain names in hopes of making money – some grab name that have been in use and the renewal gets messed up – others grab common names – such as towns – ran into the town thing a couple of years back – was helping a friend set up a history site about the area around a town – the town name was squatted on and had been for several years – and the town only has maybe 50 people living in it
Many people get a domain name with great plans and then the plans go away when they find out that what they wanted to do is like real work –
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Well, whatever the case is, once I deleted the blog here, the .com became available and I took it. Consider that. The name was absolutely unique – whole thing is fishy.
cost, bad business practice, squatters… whatever is going on, who knows? If we could actually talk to WordPress maybe we could rule them out. Not sure if the WordPress.org/Wordpress.com thing has changed anything. It’s all speculation.
anyway, like I said, this issue for me has been solved. If any further topic comes from it, then a thread dedicated to that alone may be helpful.
Thanks for your input.
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@rajshreelekha
This thread has been ridiculous waste of valuable Volunteer time that resulted from you not being forthcoming from the outset. IMNHO You were the only one who was “fishy” and sneaky. -
AGAIN, my first attempt was blocked completely – when I was direct, the topic thread was immediately closed. Forum comments like this are not respectful or helpful.
Anyone else have anything rude to add, please don’t comment and use your energy to be helpful to someone else.
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Question: What happens when I delete a blog?
Answer:Addresses (URLs) for blogs that have been deleted by the owner will remain deleted. We cannot, under any circumstances, allow someone to take over the address of a blog that was previously owned and deleted by its original/previous owner. Please do not submit support requests asking us to do this. http://en.support.wordpress.com/recycling-blog-names/
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