Unwanted Likes

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  shinyd53 · Member · Feb 12, 2018 at 6:52 pm

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  I’m getting ‘Likes’ from spammers — WordPress marketing blogs that are trying to sell something. They like a post and their gravatar appears, but I don’t want my loyal readers to be tempted to click on the gravatar and discover it’s just click bait. I would like to be able to remove unwanted ‘Likes’ without removing the ‘Like’ button.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2018 at 7:10 pm

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  What you describe is exactly what is.

  A WordPress.com account has always been a Gravatar account.
  http://blog.gravatar.com/2013/04/03/gravatar-and-wordpress-com-together-forever/

  Also see here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/like-button-spammers

  I’m sorry but we cannot delete the individual likes others leave on our posts even those that are from obvious like button spammers. All we can do is what’s here.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/likes/#likes-and-your-site

  Add a Like Button

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  topcat1953 · Member · Feb 12, 2018 at 7:38 pm

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  timethief, you always have the right answer. There should be a button where I can click “Best Answer”.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2018 at 7:40 pm

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  Thanks. You made me LOL. And, as I have a case of hives from an unknown source that are driving me crazy with itchiness I needed a laugh. :)

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  shinyd53 · Member · Feb 12, 2018 at 7:42 pm

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  Oops, I responded with wrong account. I’m also topcat1953.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2018 at 7:42 pm

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  Best wishes. :)