Strange new followers without a blog
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Since a few days I have new strange followers. Those which appear with a blog-adress, I can contact and ask how they connected to my blog; but there are two whithout any ‘place’ just a gravatar-name. Its a bit scary, for it seems one of them is a known spanish fake-commerce to which I don’t want to have any contact.
No comments so far, nothing I can/should delete or unapprove so far.
But how can I get to know who is behind these gravatar-phantoms??
My blog is verdemaravilloso.
Thank you!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Some people want followers who do not have blogs and others don’t. We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Anyone and everyone can access public blogs and that’s indeed what the public designation means. However, please read this about public blogs that become private blogs > Blog Privacy and Subscribers > http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/blog-privacy-and-subscribers/
To change blog visibility to Private go to Dashboard > Settings > Reading scroll to Site Visibility and choose option 3
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/You don’t need an upgrade of any kind at all to invite multiple people to contribute to a private blog. See:
adding users http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
user roles http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
Note that you have complete control over everything that’s posted to your blog via comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderationFor trolls, you can “blacklist” them at Settings > Discussion toward the bottom of that page. Enter their email address, their username, and if they included it, their website URL. That will automatically send them to moderation so that their comments do not appear on the blog. Do note though that if they are determined, they can use a different email address or username to get around that.
Also, do not put their IP address in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. In fact for over a decade only about 30% of us have IPs that trace back to any individual computer. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.
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I admin for a friends blog, they are retired and use the blog to keep friends updated on their travels and such – basically I own and run “their” blog – of the 60 or so followers I doubt if more than 25% have a web site, maybe a few more something like FacePlant – but a small minority filled in the web site field – so not that unusual from what I can see
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Only about 1/3 of my site followers (as opposed to comment followers) are designated as WordPress followers. But almost 19% of those have apparently deleted the blog which they provided as an address when registering as a user. So I have quite a few addressless WordPress or ex-WordPress followers as well.
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