Spam Follows with No Way to Report
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In the last day, I have received three blog followers that are clearly spam followers. However, on one of them, the link on the blog to report abuse is missing from the bar at the top of the screen. On the other two, the link on the Gravatar screen to report abuse is also missing, and on one of these the blog address itself isalso invalid.
The spam follower problem has been bad enough in recent weeks, but unless I am missing something, some of the spammers have now figured out how to set up spam follows while disabling the function to report them as spam. How can we report these spammers? In my blog these three troublemakers are the last three adds to the list of blog followers.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If the suspect followers are indeed WordPress.com users, please visit their blog via one of the links in the notification email.
If it’s a spam blog, please report it: http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/
This will shut down their account (pending approval of the report), and it also has the added benefit of determining if it really is a fake follower or a legitimate follower who just has a lousy account name. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/preventing-spammers-from-being-notified-of-new-posts/page/2?replies=20#post-1232764
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Some of these (alleged) blogs are not registered with WordPress, so I cannot report them as spammers.
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The main thread is here Please see https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/preventing-spammers-from-being-notified-of-new-posts/page/2?replies=20 Please post into it.
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