Can I stop someone from following my blog
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Can I stop someone from following my blog? I have a couple of followers who are clearly not really interested in the blog’s content – it’s a blog about charity fundraising and they’re linking to dating websites. Ideally I’d like to block them.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No. Spam Follows are something that everyone is complaining about, but they can’t really hurt your blog. I only wish they could be excluded from the Follower widget, which they are clearly trying to get into.
If they’re hosted at WP.com you can go to their blog and use the grey admin bar to report them as spam.
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Thanks for the swift reply Raincoaster.
It’s a shame they can’t be blocked. I looked at those 2 blogs after reading your reply and I also see if the blog is reported as spam and subsequently taken down, any Follows they’ve made on blogs aren’t removed but stay as part of the blog’s Follower count.
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Thanks for that :)
The specific blog which is still showing as a follower even though its been taken down is:
joawhite
http://matchtall.wordpress.com
Hope the info helps – let me know if you need anything else.
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i would say you ask the akismet team to block their comments and then, after they exhaust themselves with trying to comment, they might just disappear from wordpress all together
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Thank for the feedback, I’ll pass it along.
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