Why can't I 'Like' anyone's posts?
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@thereporterandthegirl
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@timethief…I did everything you suggested in your 12:23 pm comment. So far I have run into no problem on other’s blogs, but when I look at my own I’ve had mixed results. First time – get a like link rather than a button; the likes are in a single file scrolled position. Second time – looks normal. Third time – looks like the first time. Fourth time – looks normal. Just now – trying to load the like button and never does.
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To reply from another thread. We put a lot more time into our blog than anyone would likely guess, we are quite busy behind the scenes, and it’s all for free. Lots of traffic and great comments and awesome human interest stories and experiences are the payoff. I fail to see what’s wrong with that. Personally, I have no engraved in stone definition of what blogging is supposed to be all about, it’s different for everyone. In the case of toemail, it’s people from all around the world sharing a bit of fun, happy and sad stories, good causes, and all kinds of things that often have nothing to do with “toes”. And there are two of us doing it which makes it special. I would never have started this type of a mail in blog on my own. :)
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We have recently established some rate limits on the ability to Like posts in order to stop an increase in spam Like activity.
The current limit is *very* generous, and most people reading and Liking posts at a normal human rate will never encounter it. If you do Like a post and notice that your Like has not been accepted, please slow down a bit.
I’m sorry, I cannot release specific details on the rate limit, but I can say that a few of you in this thread have been attempting to Like several unrelated posts within minutes of their posting (for example, a picture of a rose, a rant on grocery prices, a recap of an MMA fight, etc. all in the spam of 1 minute), which is something that we frown on here, especially when we’re attempting to combat spammers. I’m not directly accusing anyone of being a spam Liker in this thread, but please don’t behave like one by rapidly Liking so many unrelated posts.
The rate limit is here to keep WordPress.com spam free and a happy place for bloggers.
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Thanks for the clarification. Got to admit though that while we do get the occasional spam comment almost all the likes we get are from legitimate blogs. I also thought there was the ability to turn off the like button for people who do not like receiving them for whatever reason?
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There is, but we do need to do something about spam Likers “gaming the system” to, just like we have comment anti-spam features even though bloggers can turn off their blog’s comments.
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staff-blorbo…By virtue of being in this thread, you have vaguely incriminated me with your comment to other potentially guilty parties. In defense of my reputation, just feel the need to say…it’s not me! I’m just trying to solve a legitimate problem.
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Sorry, I didn’t intend to incriminate anyone specifically, but needed some way to point out that some of you are hitting the limit and potentially why, without calling anyone out.
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I can’t possibly be hitting a limit. I’ve liked 2 or 3 posts today…after taking the time to actually read them.
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Ok, I do apologize, your issue is entirely separate from the others here. It sounds like your Like buttons aren’t loading at all?
If so, would you please open your own thread? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/?new=1
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I don’t think the Like/Reblog button should be removed. As I often open up a blog post in another window, then I go back to the reader and “Like” it and move on to the next post.
But now especially in the last week (and on three different computers) it hasn’t been working. I’ll go back and re-like a post in the reader and the count will double (so I’m liking 2 or 3 times) but when I refresh the page, most of my likes are gone!
thereporterandthegirl.com
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I tend to like about 5 posts within about 10 minutes, and then leave WordPress for at least 20-30 minutes. I don’t know if that is excessive or not (doesn’t sound like it) but it results in about a max of 10-12 ‘Likes’ a day.
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How is it spam to like something? That makes no sense. All it is is showing support. What difference does that make? It hurts no one.
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How is it spam to like something? That makes no sense. All it is is showing support. What difference does that make? It hurts no one.
A Like provides a link back to the Liker’s Gravatar profile, which could be filled with marketing links and such, just like a spam comment but with no words.
When we started digging into this, we found certain WordPress.com users somehow Liking hundreds (sometimes thousands) of posts in the span of an hour, often within seconds of publication. In short, there’s no way that they were reading the posts to begin with.
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I follow a lot of bloggers that post single photographs or paintings – and I think that way I extended my limit of likes very quickly…
But on the spam comments it seems to work very well – I looked in the spam folder once and was shocked how many spam comments I got.
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@jmlilley — I consider it spam when the the Liker’s name, seen when mousing over the avatar, is something like cheaplouisvittons and their Gravitar profile is empty. Especially when a quick look reveals that cheaplouisvittons.wordpress.com has been shut down for TOS violations. That person or bot apparently established the blog in order to become a WordPress user and thus able to click on Like buttons. I do not want trash like that appearing among the legitimate Likes on my blog.
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Because that’s a reactive solution, it would be just as effective as stopping spam comments by blocking all the spam email addresses. You can’t just react after it happens, because it has already happened, you’d have to have a way to catch them first.
Every good anti-spam system has both a proactive and a reactive solution. Rate-limiting to block the bots is the proactive solution, and reporting any splogs that get through via http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/ is the reactive solution.
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