Blog follower – how to block?
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My blog has followers who are spammers and I don’t want them following my blog. How do I un-follow them?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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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It’s a pity you can’t block specific people. You want the freedom of an open public blog combined with the power to weed out problematic followers. Oh well.
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We cannot block specific IP addresses because they are not unique and have not been for over a decade. ISPs place hundreds of us in the same IP block to save money. Only about 30 – 40% of the IP addresses actually trace back to an individual computer and those numbers are descending. More to the point is many have dynamic IPs (ever changing IP addresses).
Anyone can get a new IP in a couple of minutes.
Anyone can get a new email address in a couple of minutes.
Anyone with internet access can subscribe to any public blog in a feedreader.
Anyone with internet access can read any public blog.Blocking would be a useless exercise.
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Oh not! I failed to post the first sentence correctly above.
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. …
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