"Confirm Follow"

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  shayman · Member · Sep 4, 2013 at 12:09 pm

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  Some wordpress.com sites send me an e-mail which asks me to “Confirm Follow” in order to get e-mails of follow-up comments on their blog. Most wordpress blogs don’t do this.

  I find this a pain in the butt: it is time consuming and opens a browser on my phone — three unnecessary steps. Any suggestions on how to advise people with that feature to turn it off on their blogs — or perhaps how to stop it on my end.

  Thank you

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 9:12 am

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  Hi there,

  As long as you are logged in to your WordPress.com account, you shouldn’t receive an email to confirm your request to follow blogs or comments. You should only get that email if you aren’t logged in to your account when you try to follow them.

  You can learn more about how following blogs and comments works here:

  • Following Blogs
  • Following Comments

  If you get those emails when you’re already logged in to your account, please let me know and I can investigate this to see what’s going on. Thanks!

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  shayman · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 10:40 am

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  @ Rachelmcr,
  Thank you kindly. I wish that the results would be the same — logged in or not logged in. But I guess there is no way around it. The “logged in” thing is how WordPress minimizes spam, I guess. Other blogs ask for a Captcha ID or something like that and WordPress doesn’t.

  But now I understand why I sometimes get e-mail and sometimes don’t.
  I can never remember if I am logged in or not when commenting, so I guess that will continue.

  Thanks for the explanation.
  -Sabio

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 12:02 pm

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  Hi Sabio,

  If we didn’t send a confirmation email, anyone could enter your email address and subscribe you to blogs and comments without your permission. A captcha could prevent bots from entering your address, but it wouldn’t stop other people from doing it. This way, you aren’t subscribed to anything without confirming that it’s you making the request.

  I can never remember if I am logged in or not when commenting, so I guess that will continue.

  If you’re looking at a WordPress.com blog and you’re logged in to your account, you will see the Admin Bar at the top of the page. That’s a quick way to find out if you’re logged in. :) I hope that helps!

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  shayman · Member · Sep 5, 2013 at 12:10 pm

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  Hey Rachelmcr,
  I think I get it. So then I would request WordPress to make a pull-down under the sign in name to request which ID (google, wordpress or others) that it can use to verify the submitter. As it stands, I don’t know that I’m not signed in unless, as you now tell me, I look UP. It would be cool if that info was right there with the sign in — that would be a meaningful place for that info, I think. No?
  Thanx again for your answers.