Can’t delete jetpack followers
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Until a few days ago I could remove spam followers (from Russia) by clicking REMOVE in Jetpack. The remove button is still there but it no longer works.
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Hi there,
I assume you’re referring to https://nyskiblog.com/?
Are you speaking of the option under My Site ->Manage ->People ->Followers?
Please check if clearing your browser cache, disabling your browser add-ons, or using a completely different browser helps.
On the other hand, you’re really just causing yourself unnecessary stress by worrying about, and manually removing spam followers. Spam followers are an unavoidable by-product of blogging. They’ll always be there, and there’s no effective way to prevent it, short of adding so many CAPTCHAs and confirmation that any reasonable person would just give up on following you instead :)
Spam followers cannot harm your site in any way, so my advice is to just ignore them. That’s what I do on all my sites.
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Jetpack > Settings > Discussion > View Email Followers > Remove
I never had spam followers until about 6 weeks ago. Now I get several a day.
I like to keep an accurate count of how many followers we have.
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Have you tried the browser troubleshooting steps I suggested above?
The Remove button on the email followers page works fine for me on my own site so there’s no bug with this feature. Can you give the email address of a follower you’re sure you want to remove so I can test it on your site?
That said, can I ask why you believe these are spam followers?
To subscribe to a site via email you have to 1) visit the site, 2) enter your email address in a widget, and 3) click a link in a confirmation email. Spammers don’t go to this much trouble. They use a WordPress.com account, and rapidly follow random sites in the Reader where it only requires a single click, or even use bots to automatically subscribe to sites by just cycling through blog IDs. There’s zero profit for a spammer in manually following one site at a time.
Additionally, a spammer has literally nothing to gain by doing this. A spammer following via a WordPress.com account has a link back to their site that appears in your notifications and in your followers list, that you can potentially click on to give them traffic to their site. That is the only reason why people spam-follow – it’s an attempt to get traffic and follow-backs on their own site.
Someone following you via email only give you their email address, and they get absolutely nothing in return besides your posts in their inbox.
Spammers do what they do for profit, and there’s no profit in spam-following someone via email. So these might very well be genuine subscribers you’re removing.
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I don’t understand why the are following. It’s a new thing. I get them against the stop forum spam list and if they are on it I delete them. Never had any until about 3 weeks ago, now I am getting many per day.
I like a clean list. We use it for contest drawings too.
I asked my developer about this he said it was a know issue that Jetpack was working on.
I will ask my developer to help me follow your recommended procedure.
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