Blog Commenters and Deleting Free Blogs

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I got an email notification about a new blog comment, so I logged into my free (but unearning) blog. It was a timely "sign" because I have been thinking about deleting my inactive account there. It was started in mid-2014, so it's now 25 months old. 13 posts in 2014, 3 posts in 2015, and received only 6 comments in 2 years. However, I got curious and browsed around the dashboard. The latest Page Views graph was from June to July. Highest was 38, lowest 12, so average of 24 page views a day. For Unique Visitors, highest was 30, lowest 8, so average was 18 unique visitors a day. It's nice to know there are people who stumble on my sparse and abandoned blog. But will 24 views or 18 visitors daily earn me something if it was a monetized blog or hosted on a writing site? I really don't know, but it would be nice to know where they came from, like those flags or maps that you see on blogs. What I was surprised to discover was I could see the emails and locations of my 6 commenters. Most of the email addresses do not match the display name, and most of the comments felt spammy. One even copy-pasted a sentence in my post as his or her comment. Yeah, right. When I clicked on each IP address, it would open to a site called InfoSniper and show which country it came from. 2 from Romania, 1 from USA, 1 from Pakistan, 1 from the Philippines and 1 from Korea (but whom I feel is also a Filipino). I still feel like deleting this free blog eventually, not only because it's not earning, but also to avoid others using my content because if I join a paid-to-write site someday, I don't want to be suspected of plagiarizing myself. I hope that when I request for account deletion, my content are permanently deleted online, or at least inaccessible to those who don't work for that site. I have seen some blogs and websites that disabled the right-click function. Do you have that on your site or sites that you joined? Does it help minimize plagiarism?