A strange fellow
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HELP!!!
I got a like from someone called ROHIT ROHAN who apparently doesn’t have a wordpress blog (which sometimes happens)
Unfortunately, this time the link below his photo leads to my homepage. How can I do to block this? He didn’t leave any comments that I could report as spam, just a like. -
Hi there,
If your site is public, anyone with a WordPress.com username account can like your posts. It is not necessary for someone to have their own site, nor to link their username to their site if they do, for them to be able to like posts on other people’s sites.
It’s not possible to report someone for liking your post, as that doesn’t violate our terms of service in any way, nor is it possible to block someone from liking post on your site. Someone liking posts on your site cannot harm your site or your account in any way.
The only case where we’ll take action against an account due to a like, is if they have an inappropriate profile picture for their account, and in that case we’ll need to know the account username, not just the public display name, of the account in question.
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Thank you for your kind answer.
The like in question came from someone called ROHIT ROHAN who apparently doesn’t have a WordPress blog (which sometimes happens)
Unfortunately, the link below his photo led to MY OWN homepage. This was the problem. Since I couldn’t get rid of his name, I found a solution by disabling all the likes on that post. But, was it a security breach?
What do I have to do if the problem occurs again? Is there a way to protect my blog?Looking forward your answer, I thank you again
Luisa Zambrotta (from Italy)
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If your site is publicly accessible, there is no way to block people from Liking posts without just disabling Likes.
In this case, it wasn’t a hack, someone who just had a blank URL in their profile, so it just reloads your page (since that’s the page it’s currently on).
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Thank you so much.
However I noticed that even if I disabled the like button (which I no longer see) some have been able to add likes to this post:Luisa
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Disabling likes just prevents them from appearing on your site. People can still like posts via the WordPress.com Reader, as that is both a way that they can share your post with their own readers, via a widget on their own blogs, and it’s one of the factors the Reader considers when ranking your posts in search results in the Reader Search feature.
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Thank you so much.
While you are here I would like to ask you another question:
when I want to view the blog of some followers I read the message “XY
doesn’t exist” or “XY is no longer available”. Who are those people? Do I have to beware of them? -
That sounds like you may be checking people who have already removed their sites or closed their accounts.
As my colleagues mentioned before, no harm will come to your site or account from likes or people who just follow your blog so no, you do not need to worry about those :).
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