Why are there unknown blogs showing in Blogs I Follow?

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  iimpp · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 8:27 am

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  There are some kind of blogs keep showing in Blogs I Follow. They’re like animation blogs which I never see or follow. When I go to Edit List, there is none of them in my list too. And when I click on one of them, it also says I’m not following it. And no one also reblogs it too. They’ll appear for quite a while and gone. What is this?

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

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  timethief · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 10:37 pm

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  That’s very strange and oughht not to be happening. I have flagged this thread for Staff attention.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 4, 2012 at 10:46 pm

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  From what I can see, you’re following every blog that appears in your reader.

  Specifically, what is the URL of the post from the blog you aren’t following?

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  iimpp · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm

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  Thank you for your attention. The blogs I’m not following are
  http://theegoco.wordpress.com – The Ego Co.
  http://colorsunited.wordpress.com – Colors United!!
  http://iwillfearnoevil.wordpress.com – I Will Fear no Evil
  http://inventorymaintance.wordpress.com – inventorymaintance

  I didn’t copy the specific URL code of the post, sorry. Now they’re all gone again. It happened twice.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 3:16 pm

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  Hi there,
  Thanks for posting the links. I have flagged this thread for Staff attention.

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  iimpp · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 4:58 pm

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  Thank you :)

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 5, 2012 at 6:07 pm

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  Oh, they all disappeared again? That explains why I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.

  If it happens again, would you please reply immediately with the URLs of the unwanted blogs?

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 6:14 pm

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  Are you following any Tags? Seems to me there is a follow Posts with a specific Tag – I get some strange results from time to time in my reader here from Tags being followed

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 5, 2012 at 6:39 pm

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  Yeah, that is a strong possibility. Tag misuse is, and will probably always be, a big problem, blasted human nature and all. :(

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 5, 2012 at 6:42 pm

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  staff-blorbo – I just look at them as a mystery gift or something like that – I find it amusing at times the strange tagging

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm

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  Ha, I like that approach!

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  iimpp · Member · Jun 6, 2012 at 10:18 am

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  I don’t think I’m following any Tags…Or if there is, I might have done it accidentally. How can I check it? Lol, it’s that mystery? Sounds interesting.

  Anyways, if it happens again, I’ll send you the URLs immediately (they’re always from these four blogs, I don’t know why, maybe Tags following? And why did they disappear?). Thank you :)