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  endsjustifythememe · Member · Nov 27, 2018 at 6:52 pm

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  Dear wordpress support team,

  apparently your algorhythm thinks I am a bot because I like to follow a lot of people, and it has thus taken away my right to follow other blogs. All I get when I click the follow botton is this error: “Sorry, there was a problem following”. Is there something you can do about this? I genuinely only follow blogs that I am interested in, whose contents I have browsed and who really speak to me. Thank you in advance,

  J

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

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  gemmacevans · Member · Nov 28, 2018 at 12:59 pm

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  Hi endsjustifythememe,

  The Reader stopped functioning properly due to the number of sites you followed — which resulted in the follow feature being disabled for your account.

  We’ve been able to re-enable follows and you should be able to continue using this feature providing it is used to follow a reasonable number of sites. By that I mean not using it for self promotion or approval.

  If the Reader stops working again, it may not be possible to re-enable the follow feature.