Is someone, re-blogging hundreds of articles a day, Spamming?
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What Should I Do?
I recieved a new follower yesterday. We all think that’s great, unless it isn’t of course. The new follower immediately re-blogged my post. That was a post I re-blogged from another site.I didn’t think that was so bad, but later on in the evening, I put together a couple more articles, and before I could even finish the final edit, they were once again re-blogged, by the same person.
He must have a ” bot ” working for him, because I went to the site when I was notified of a new follow, and there wasn’t much there. I always follow a follower. That’s my way to quietly stalk my visitors, and see what they have, and learn of their interestes.
Within 20 minutes of my pressing the follow button on that site, my email box was over loaded with posts from that site. I read many of the titles on the emails, and they all seemed to be re-blogs, from all kinds of sites.
Is this some kind of spamming? I deleted 250 emails, from that site, and my mailbox continues to fill up with post notifications from that site. At the moment I still have about 4 or 5 hundred more to eleminate, and I’m sure it wont stop there.
I don’t want to offend anyone, but now I wonder if I should unfollow. I am mostly afraid that as soon as I post this, it will be snagged, and re-blogged, by the same site. I don’t think the owner of the site reads that many posts, in one sitting.
Am I being an asshole for posting this? Am I right about this? Is this the way to make friends out here? I NEED INPUT!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Is someone, re-blogging hundreds of articles a day, Spamming?
Yes. Report them for spam.
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I’m with raincoaster. Bloggers who do next to nothing but reblogging the posts of others are parasites, who need to be compelled to make their blogs private.
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To report this site to Terms of Service Staff see what to do here https://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/
P.S. As these matters are not discussed on the public support forums this thread will be closed.
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You’re welcome. There’s nothing wrong with creating a private collection of resource links to reblogs but leaving the site public and exhibiting the bot-behavior you report goes beyond the pale. I’m sure our Terms of Service Staff will take care of this off the forums after you report it.
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