Thanks for the clarification. How many posts were made? jimrandomh's suggestion below seems plausible if it's not too many. Just log in as that user, click on your username to show all of your quotes, and then edit them and paste in some text like "user account removed" or whatever you want.
Are there too many posts to do that and/or does that still allow for tracking you here via your name and is that undesirable?
Maybe one more question along those lines: is it purely your name that you don't want even associated with LW... or is the content of certain posts that you don't want associated with your name?
If the latter, just edit those sensitive posts and stop using that name and you should be fine. If the former, yes, that's a bigger problem.
I already did that long ago; there weren't too many posts. That situation does still allow tracking; google will find an empty userpage.
I wrote that user matt from my real name account.
It is not so that I fundamentally disagree with less wrong; this is just a part of an internet-clean-up which has something to do with me becoming older and realizing that I should not post everything under my clear name no matter how brilliant I consider it to be at the moment I hit the post button; this may or may not have been subconsciously influenced by me reading certa...
Where can I get my less wrong account deleted?
No, the 'delete account' function doesn't work, and I am not posting from the account I want to have deleted as I don't want the name to stay in the google cache for another couple of months
I already asked that question here; I got no reaction that gets me further but were upvoted enough to post here.