Why are you capping the amount of followers we can have?
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@lindaghill
What do you consider to be harmful? Are cdeivers your choice of blogging buddies. They as hell aren’t on my choice list. They are on my boot that fake foillowerrs fake followers in the butt listIn case this is not clear please comprehend that I have no respect for deceitful people offline or online.
I consider anyone following my blog, and liking my posts, who does not actually appreciate the content and engage with it to be a deceiver.
I consider those overblown ego-maniacal big mouths, who deliberately develop a pattern of following hundreds of blogs with content they neither appreciate nor engage with and encourage there butt-kissing pseudo-followers to do the same to be morally bereft deceivers, whose company I refuse to keep offline or online.
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@shawnajroberts
butchcountry67 started a new thread here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/unwanted-unfollows?replies=1#post-2322442 as you requested.Perhaps you may choose to close this thread and have the Terms of Service Staff take over dealing with the OP and his minions re: his persistent abhorrent behaviors off forum.
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I apologize for the obvious errors in my response above. I’m visually challenged. I read teeny tiny musical notation all night on Friday and all day yesterday and I’m having a bad vision day. Sorry. -
Hello once again! I see that you were all quite busy last night after I logged off.
I have deleted several comments in this thread for being off topic or generally against our Community Standards.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-forums-community-standards
Moving forward, any comments not directly related to random unrequested unfollows will be deleted from this thread.
@butchcountry67 – I have you new thread open and will respond shortly.
@kavalkade12 – I see you have your own thread as well where lizthefair has responded directing you to our abuse form. We do not discuss Terms of Service issues here in the forums, so please keep further discussion of this through our complaint forms.
@raincoaster – If you don’t have anything to contribute about the issue at hand, please refrain from further commenting.
@timethief – re:
Perhaps you may choose to close this thread and have the Terms of Service Staff take over
I am keeping this thread open as there does seem to be a legitimate issue where followers are being inadvertently removed from sites. We want to fix this issue.
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To summarize for anyone landing on this thread, if you’re having trouble with random unfollows please answer the following questions for me:
- How are you subscribing? (via the Reader, or the admin bar, or a follow button)
- Do you do the same thing every time?
- How do you discover that you’ve been unsubscribed?
- Do you have the site or WordPress.com in general open in multiple tabs?
- What type of device do you read on? And what type of device are you following on?
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To add to my report way way above
Subscribed with Reader to Hack a Day
Reader on PC and Android App
More than one window open on my PC (Reader, help forum, my main site dashboard)
got to wondering why no articles from Hack a Day in several days and looked at the list of subscribers – the it sucks part is that I subscribe to many sites and many of them do not post every day – so I might not notice they are gone
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I mostly use the admin bar follow button in the upper left hand corner
At times if they have a follow button on their blog site I will use thatGenerally that is all I do, the same thing every time,
I discover that I have been unsubscribed when their posts don’t appear in my reader or my admin page tells me that I am not following them.
I don’t use multiple tabs, just the single method.
I use a desktop pc or my laptop for everything, I do not use mobile devices online.
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I can actually give some of this info:
If I subscribe via the follow button and thus receive email notifications when there’s a post, I haven’t been unsubscribed. The one time I was unsub’d from OM I was only following him in my reader at the time.
Do you do the same thing every time?
No.
How do you discover that you’ve been unsubscribed?
If it’s from someone who posts often I wonder where they’ve gone. If it’s not… who knows how many blogs I’m no longer following?
Do you have the site or WordPress.com in general open in multiple tabs?
Always, since I have multiple blogs.
What type of device do you read on? And what type of device are you following on?
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Wrong link! For those of you interested in the other questions butchcountry67 raised, you can find that thread here:
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@auxclass, @butchcountry67, & @lindaghill – Thanks for those details! I’m going to sift through our subscription logs for your accounts and find the unsubscriptions you’ve mentioned so that our devs can take a closer look. :)
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@shawnajroberts My posts are no longer hitting the WordPress reader that I can tell. Have I been set to “mature?”
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@kavalkade12 – As I mentioned, we do not discuss Terms of Service issues in the forums and I’ve deleted these comments as they are off topic. Feel free to post about this on your own site! Any personal differences you have with aopinionatedman will need to be sorted out individually as we are not able to mediate those issues.
Do not post in this thread again about anything other than random unrequested unfollows.
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Thank you for the help on this thread. The people that have been responding are some of the most frequent cases of this occurring. I understand the policies on “mass following” and I am glad you recognize that isn’t the issue here. I can provide more usernames of readers that regularly have to refollow if you should need more data.
Could you also tell me if I am now marked as “mature?” I don’t see my posts hitting the overall reader, under tag search, and the last time this happened it was due to be marking as mature. If I am, could I know the reason why? Is it due to a few people “loudly” complaining about me and my blog? Because for every one of those complaints there are hundreds I have helped that don’t think that of Harsh Reality.
My current posts are being tagged with blog, blogging, harsh reality, and some other tags. I cannot see them under harsh reality.
Thanks for the help,
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@raincoaster, @aopinionatedman, & @kavalkade12 – Your comments have been deleted.
This thread is about random unrequested unfollows. Anything unrelated to unfollows will be deleted.
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@aopinionatedman – Your site accidentally got caught in an automated sweep. We’ve fixed this and your posts should appear in the Reader again.
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I posted an update with Kristen B, but I wanted to add my complaint here and then add to it.
Kristen B had told me the other day to follow a few new blogs. I did. I added Ruth E Hendricks Photography, Rantings of An Amateur Chef, and Slightly Chilled Porcupine. Since then I have had to re-follow Maggiesblog0019, which I emailed Kristen about over the weekend, as well as Ruth E Hendricks Photography and Human Interest. Both of which had to be added on Sunday because that was when they went missing. The odd part was, one minute they were in my reader and the next they were not. I literally refreshed the page and they were gone. I didn’t unfollow them, they just disappeared, like so many others have.
The last couple of days I’ve been busy and haven’t really been on WordPress a whole lot. I noticed because I haven’t been reading posts in my reader I haven’t lost any follows. I shouldn’t have to stay off of WordPress to preserve my follows.
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I don’t think this new rule is about protecting us from spam.
I’ve had many people legitimately interested in my website tell me they can’t follow my blog.
I follow several really interesting sites here and sometimes my WP feed gets stuck and doesn’t show new posts. To clear it I unfollow 1 or 2 until the new posts instantly appear in my feed. Then I click to follow again.
We protect ourselves from spam by setting comment security high.
We can’t have the number of sites we follow monitored and restricted.
This is a sovereign right, an essential freedom.
WP automatically suggests blogs we might like, encouraging new follows.
Our purpose here is to support other bloggers with similar interests in the WP community, not be isolated or have their websites isolated from us.
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I don’t think this new rule is about protecting us from spam.
What new rule would that be? As I’ve said several times in this thread, we do not cap the number of followers a site can have.
If you can give me the usernames of a couple of users who have had trouble following your site, I can take a look at our subscriptions logs.
I follow several really interesting sites here and sometimes my WP feed gets stuck and doesn’t show new posts. To clear it I unfollow 1 or 2 until the new posts instantly appear in my feed. Then I click to follow again.
This can usually be fixed by simply refreshing the Reader. If that doesn’t fix it, I’ll need you to open a new thread about that as it is not related to the issue we’re discussing in this thread.
@thedailyblabber – Thanks for the update! I’ll take a look at your logs and report back to our developers.
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I follow several really interesting sites here and sometimes my WP feed gets stuck and doesn’t show new posts. To clear it I unfollow 1 or 2 until the new posts instantly appear in my feed. Then I click to follow again.
This can usually be fixed by simply refreshing the Reader.
This happens to me also from time to time. If refreshing the Reader doesn’t help, try clearing your browser cache. That usually does the trick. Something else that I’ve seen to work is clicking the edit link (gear icon) next to Blogs I Follow in the Reader, and then clicking back to the feed.
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