Follwers who are commercial trolls
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I understand the concept of a public blog being open to all the public to follow. But there is one category of “follower” about which I am concerned: those who use the “follow” function in order to fill their “Reader” box with sales prospects for their business. For example, it is clear that “Mindset” and “AfflictedMindset” have no interest in what I write other than to look for prospective customers. (At the very least, trolling for my money.) I wish there was a way to keep these commercial trolls away from my blog, for the sake of my readers who do not want to be receiving commercial messages from them.
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WordPress.com and Gravatar accounts are one in the same. Our blog posts are attracting fake followers who are like button spammers. Some are make money sploggers and scammers and then there are the other opportunists all with suspected monetary motives. Truth be told we cannot look into the minds of anyone clicking a like button and uncover what their motivation for clicking was. We cannot delete their likes or gravatars from our blogs, all we can do is disable likes on our posts. In addition, I believe we can report a Gravatar profile (e.g. http://en.gravatar.com/username) at http://wordpress.com/abuse/ and have Staff look into the matter.
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I seem to be missing something here – how can a subscriber to any blog send a message to any other follower?
Followers are not displayed anywhere (other than the total number if you enable the count to show) – all a follower might do is annoy the blogger – and since I don’t look at the followers other than when they first subscribe even the probable junk ones are out of sight – and even a commercial spammer might really like your blog or in my case like boating, I suspect that even spammers have mothers
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