I can't follow any sites, i'm getting the message "unable to follow site"

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  wassimkotob · Member · Mar 23, 2022 at 8:31 pm

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  Hi,

  I can’t follow any sites, i’m getting the message “unable to follow site” on WordPress reader. not sure what is the reason can you please check and help me?

  Thank you in advance.

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

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Mar 23, 2022 at 11:05 pm

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  Hi there,

  Can you tell us more about the issue you are having? You are trying to follow sites by manually entering the site URLin the search field here? https://wordpress.com/following/manage

  Or are you using some other method to try and follow these sites instead. Can you share the URL of one or two of the sites so we can try on our end? Do you know are these sites hosted directly on WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress sites, which are sites that you find on a “traditional web host” like Bluehost, GoDaddy, etc.

  Thanks for the additional info!

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Mar 23, 2022 at 11:08 pm

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  Hi again,

  Also I want to point out that sometimes your activity can trip our spam filters, did you happen to be trying to follow a large number of sites recently?

  Thanks for confirming.

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  wassimkotob · Member · Mar 23, 2022 at 11:19 pm

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  Hi Jerry,

  Thank you for the prompt response :) Yes i might had followed a large amount of sites back then but i didn’t know it will trigger the spam filter.

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  wassimkotob · Member · Mar 23, 2022 at 11:24 pm

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  I’m using WordPress Reader to check articles from other WordPress site Bloggers and i’m following their sites to get notified whenever they upload more good articles. I’m not entering the site manually, i just hit the follow site button on WordPress App Reader feed.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Mar 23, 2022 at 11:36 pm

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  We are not able to help with terms of service issues in the public forums, but I’ve asked our ToS team to reach out to you via email, thanks.

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  wassimkotob · Member · Mar 23, 2022 at 11:58 pm

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  Alright, Thank you

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  kokkieh · Staff · Mar 24, 2022 at 1:13 pm

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  Hi there,

  Please check your inbox for an email from our terms of service team.

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