Block a follower!
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Someone is following me that I don’t want as a follower. How do I get rid of them?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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raincoaster excels in brevity.
I excel in verbosity.We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Anyone and everyone can access public blogs and that’s indeed what the public designation means. However, please read this about public blogs that become private blogs > Blog Privacy and Subscribers > http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/blog-privacy-and-subscribers/
Note that you have complete control comment moderation. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation If your blog is public others can, of course, read it and they can submit comments but you can Moderate all comments and choose which ones to approve or not.
I suggest you set your blog so that first time commenters are held in moderation until their first comment is approved, then from that point forward they will not need approval. Settings > Discussion. The next step up is to set it so that all comments are held in moderation until approved. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/
Mark only spam as spam http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/01/24/mark-only-spam-as-spam/ and delete all troll comments. http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/how-to-starve-a-troll/
For trolls, you can “blacklist” them at Settings > Discussion toward the bottom of that page. Enter their email address, their username, and if they included it, their website URL. That will automatically send them to moderation so that their comments do not appear on the blog. Do note though that if they are determined, they can use a different email address or username to get around that.
Also, do not put their IP address in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.
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Thanks for the in-depth answer. I think perhaps I’ll just delete my blog entirely and send email journals to a few friends instead.
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Or just make it private.
To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 .
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/NOTE: If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/#invite-people-to-view-your-private-blog
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Thanks. I’ve now made my blog private, just so the last one who followed is obviously someone just trying to get others to follow her. I’m assuming I now have to personally invite all of my other followers or they won’t be able to keep following me, correct? I apologize if I’m slow at getting to know how to do this!
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It sounds like it’s just a spam follower. I wouldn’t change a thing because they won’t really be reading your blog anyway. They don’t do you any harm. Just carry on and don’t bother setting it Private is my advice.
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My problem with this particular follower is that she has started some sort of women’s organization with plans of writing about and possibly making TV shows relative to women. I don’t want to be one of her “examples” of anything, good or bad. Perhaps I’m being a bit too paranoid. These are obviously questions I should have considered before I even started a public blog, eh?
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