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The correct order to delete your account is

  Sign in to SlideShare
  Go to Menu “Account Settings”
  Change Password
  Delete Account
  Yes, Delete my Account

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Strange. I just did it (on desktop) and the steps I had to follow were as listed in the article (Delete Account twice, no Change Password).

I've never used Slideshare, will I have to sign up?

If you have a LinkedIn account, you were signed up to SlideShare automatically without your knowledge or consent.

You should be able to login right away, no need to sign up (again). "Login" button in corner then "Login with LinkedIn" button.

One non-obvious step I encountered. After login with LinkedIn, it doesn't look like you logged in but you did. You have to hit the "Explore" button on the top bar and then you'll see your name menu on the upper right, and you can proceed to settings.

Thanks I had exactly this problem!

Refresh/F5 worked for me.

Another thing: if you've never directly used Slideshare and instead signed in via your Linkedin in username, you'll need to set a password in order to delete the account (it prompts you to set one in the delete modal).

I did not need to do that & never used slideshare

<shrug> Their site is so full of anti-patterns it's quite possible I accidentally signed up again and deleted again. Either way, it wanted a real password before letting me click delete.

How do we know that clicking the "Login with LinkedIn" button doesn't create the account? OpenID Connect/oAuth logins all work the same - if you haven't already signed up, "logging in as <x>" creates the account for you.

Yeah, I'd like to confirm that I actually do have an account there before accidentally creating one.

The email makes it sound like you'd need to already have an account at both LinkedIn and SlideShare to have the latter import data from the former.

I also tried their Forgot Password with my LinkedIn email, and it said there is no account associated with it.

To answer you, the account was associated with my real email but had no password. Saw after deleting the account because it sent a deletion confirmation to my real personal email (that it should never have had in the first place).

To answer the parent post, OAuth doesn't automatically associate accounts. The first time you login (signup) to something with linkedin/google/facebook it gives you a popup warning that you're about to authenticate and share data with a third party service, please confirm.

If you see that popup on login, you don't have an account, don't proceed.

Thanks, I didn't see that popup upon logging in, and swiftly deleted the account.

Event sourcing to the rescue!

    Append DeletedByUserEvent

It's deletes all the way down

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