Followers
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When a follower is removed from following a blog – what message if any do they get?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
There’s no message for neither the blog owner nor the follower. Notifications are being sent only when someone is following a blog.
If you have any other questions, just let me know and I’ll be happy to help.
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Then how does a follower know when you ‘remove’ them?
I had someone I didn’t want to follow me do so 6 times yesterday after I deleted them yes all 6 times – in the space of about 20 minutes. Until I put that particular site on private for about 12 hours.
They had to know somehow? And this was not the first time. Another ‘follower’ tried to follow 7 times in as many days. I think they finally gave up.
If ‘those’ followers read my ‘about’ pages I don’t think they would have started to ‘follow’ in the first place. I don’t respect followers who just follow for the heck of it.
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@julespaige was that someone you know or just a random follower?
Keeping the site private will prevent new followers.
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They two were folks that I didn’t know at all. Not related to my content at all. I check everyone out.
They were both some kind of business sites trying to sell their offerings. I have the addresses of the blogs if you want them.
Give me an email to send them to privately though, as I don’t want to embarrass anyone publicly. -
@julespaige okay. In the case of spam followers, we try to detect spammers automatically.
If you’ll leave the follower on then let us know which ones are being spammy, we can check them out.
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I don’t think that they are necessarily ‘spam’ followers, just not anyone I want following me.
I realize anyone can make a blog for their specialty, fashion, travel, writing, how to make money blogging… And that’s fine. But here’s an example; if my blog was about flower gardening I wouldn’t exactly want a wine maker to follow me. Or someone who was selling medically beneficial shoes. While there may be a few cross over subjects… There are just some folks I’d rather not follow me. Though I know there are other ways that they can still see my blog if I make it public.They aren’t on now. The only way I can give you those blogs is to send the addresses that I saved. But what I want to know is how they know I removed them. That question still hasn’t been answered. And why they couldn’t respect being removed once and move on.
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My best guess is that they were looking at the site and noticed it has a follow button again instead of an “unfollow”. So they clicked follow again.
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I sent this yesterday but the was an email glitch:
At least that’s some sort of an explanation. Thanks.
Still it is unfortunate that the person who just follows willy nilly so to speak can’t leave some comment as to why –
That might have changed how I ‘looked at them’… -
Typically people follow because they’re interested in what you said; again the only real way to avoid letting people see your site at all is to make it private.
But sometimes people follow your site as a means to get you to look at their site, or to trick you into emailing them.
If you suspect that, leave the follower in place and update us. We’ll take a look.
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I’ll remember your ‘tip’ for next time – as the two people who were annoying me – as stated,
I’ve already removed them, and blacklisted them. Maybe that was extreme?
As previously stated I don’t like people who follow and won’t comment, who I believe are just wanting a follow back just to increase their stats.I do look at all sites that want to follow me, which is how I know I did not want ‘them’.
They also, at least one had that automatic pop up to follow their site, which I did not do.If you do want their sites I can email them. Just because they weren’t my cup of tea doesn’t mean they weren’t or aren’t right for someone else.
I may be too old school. Thank you for your help.
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As previously stated I don’t like people who follow and won’t comment, who I believe are just wanting a follow back just to increase their stats.
I, personally, follow many sites where I never comment. I don’t comment because I don’t feel I have something to contribute to the conversations on those sites, and I follow because I enjoy reading the content the authors of those sites create, not because I want them to follow me back. But by your definition, that would make me a spammer.
I suggest you give these followers the benefit of the doubt.
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Thank you, kokkieh, supernovia, and fstat,
I have never said that those who follow without considering my theme were spammers, or stalkers for that matter. Those are your assumptions.
Because of previous experience with a group of pyramid get rich quick followers several years ago when I could not remove them – I chose to discontinue displaying likes so others would not fall into their trap. I am also not saying that anyone who runs a business site is a spammer or a stalker. But since WP has given me the option to remove those followers who I choose not to follow me… then I have the right to remove them.
My question was related to a specific situation and was possibly answered by:
“My best guess is that they were looking at the site and noticed it has a follow button again instead of an “unfollow”.It would be nice however if the first time someone ‘follows’ that they also comment with something like: “I know we have nothing in common but I enjoy your content, so I may be a silent observer – thank you for allowing me to do so.” Perhaps I am too old school to ask for people to be polite?
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