unwanted followers
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I have recently been followed by lots of unwanted followers. How can I moderate blog followers or delete them?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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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It’s a pity that it is not possible to moderate followers in the same way that you can moderate comments. I’m sure I am not the only blogger who is fed up with people following my blog when they haven’t the slightest interest in the subjects I’m blogging about. I accept that my blog is public but I don’t want to restrict followers to people who are WP bloggers when a number of my followers have blogs hosted by blogger or typepad etc.
If I upgraded my blog would I have any/more control over who can follow it?
Do WP envisage enabling a better control system in the future for dealing with unwanted followers? -
Since you don’t seem to show your followers (your site loaded too slow for me to wait for the whole front page to load) the “unwanted” followers gain nothing other than maybe a click when you look at their site – no traffic will be had to their site from your blog – so they just annoy you a bit –
personally I don’t pay much attention to followers other than the email I get when a new person subscribes – can’t even remember how many subscribers I have
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If I upgraded my blog would I have any/more control over who can follow it? Do WP envisage enabling a better control system in the future for dealing with unwanted followers?
No there is no upgrade that will give you what you want. Understand that your time would be squandered on removing unwanted followers because anyone can get a new email address and or a new IP in seconds flat.
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