More Control Over "Likes" and Followers?

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Sep 28, 2012 at 10:21 pm

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  On the Support Board, there are fairly frequent questions about how to delete Likes and/or Followers for one reason or another. The standard answer seems to be that it can’t be done.

  Is there a reason for that?

  Why can’t Admins act to remove or disallow certain things?

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Sep 28, 2012 at 10:22 pm

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  Or, I guess to make this an Idea, the questions could be reformatted somehow.

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  yessicasjourney · Member · Sep 28, 2012 at 11:50 pm

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  Hi I just posted a similar question and got sent a link to this discussion. I asked if there is a way of deleting or blocking certain followers from your blogsite which I personally think you should be able to do. You can do similar things in YouTube and LinkedIn. I think this is definately something which Word Press should consider developing. I think that emails should be sent initially to the owner of the blogsite to verify whether you want to accept the person to follow you ot not. At the moment I am sent no email even to say that someone is following me. I hope this is something that Word Press improves.

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  thebirdingbunch · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 5:39 pm

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  I know I have suggested this in the past. I ended up disabling “likes” for posts, since I could not moderate them but there are other ways people can like, which overrides our settings/wishes. At least the undesirable ones are not visible to my readers any more.

  I’ve just learned to live with the followers, but it would be great if I could remove those I’d rather not have. It’s one thing to have a blog public, which they could see, but it is another to have your posts go to their inbox, if they use email notifications. I don’t post about my personal life, so I suppose it isn’t a big deal…

  Many of them appear to just want hits to their site, not once making an effort to communicate on my blog. I suspect the same is true for the “likes”. Unless they leave a comment, I rarely visit their sites.

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  catezapp · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 5:52 pm

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  how do you disable likes?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 5:55 pm

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  Main page for all support documentation http://en.support/wordpress.com
  searchbox – type likes
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=likes
  results > http://en.support.wordpress.com/likes/#likes-and-your-site
  and http://en.support.wordpress.com/likes/#turn-likes-onoff-on-specific-posts