Mass following is now a crime?
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I get no warning WordPress or email letting me know there is now a “subscription cap” that you can meet daily? Instead just a disabling of my abilities right after I repaid for my subscription. That seems pretty unfair. Is there any appeal process for this? The below email seems pretty official and final. Is she the final word?
Jason Cushman
-Opinionated Man
(email visible only to moderators and staff)
aopinionatedman.comHello,
We have noticed unusual behavior in your account, and have disabled several social features of WordPress.com, such as liking and/or following, as a result.
You have agreed to our Terms of Service which specifically says your “blog is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods”.
Your rapid pattern of liking or following has exceeded our hourly limits many times, which caused your account to be flagged.
Your ability to follow other blogs will not be restored. If you genuinely need to follow so many blogs, we would encourage you to use an external RSS feed reader (eg. Feedly.com).
Lisa | Community Guardian | WordPress.com
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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These issues are not discussed on public peer support forums. Mistakes can be made but as a policy, we are asked to refrain from discussing Terms of Service issues on these public forums. You have a warning notice with a link — please click that link as it works at all times (even when the regular contact form is closed).
This thread is tagged for closure.
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It’s not BS and I guarantee that you do not want to hear my opinion on speed likers and speed followers. They are emulating the behavior of and spammers. I hope they all find another hobby offline, for example, one on the end of a shovel.
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It’s a spam technique. Whatever your motivation (assuming it’s not the same motivation as a spammer’s, ie to drive numbers of people to your site) you will not suffer from a temporary disabling of mass following.
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Again, not against the TOS since they have no cap on subscription amounts. You are just another opinion Raincoaster. Again, your opinion doesn’t really matter.
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“I didn’t mean to run out without paying. That was not my intention. I did, however, run out without paying several times. But I did so from other reasons.”
You can see how this doesn’t work, exactly.
If you simply MUST read all that content, nothing is preventing you from registering a different account for free and following as many people as you like.
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Neither my opinion on this or yours matter. Terms of Service Staff already made a ruling and Support Staff cannot and will not overturn it. So you either accept it or move to self-hosting. The choice is yours.
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Great TT thanks for clarifying that. I’ll wait and see if there is a third option though. I am not a goat like some people…
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Raincoaster I am a paying customer buddy. Your analogy makes absolutely no sense…. nice try though.
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If you like you can keep bringing it knowing that every time we post into this thread the timestamps move forward guaranteeing thread closure will take longer.
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P.S. Oh great! Now we have a thread spammer that we can report also. This just gets sillier and sillier.
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Posting one comment in support isn’t “spam.” Again TT, you really need to look up what “spam” is in the online dictionary. Your definition is far, far off.
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These are technical support forums where we are allowed to post only technical support questions and answers to them. Anything else posted here is spam. I see a spammy link drop and I reported it.
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If you are interested in READING those blogs, a free different account will let you follow them. Clearly, you’re not interested in that. Which leads me to the conclusion you are spamming the reader with Follows to draw attention to your blog. Which means you’re a spammer.
Incidentally, the more you post here, the more attention you do draw to yourself. This forum is extremely attractive to google. It doesn’t take too long before this thread in particular will outrank your blog in searches for your username.
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