WordPress.com Forums » Tag: delete or block followers - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/delete-or-block-followers WordPress.com Forums » Tag: delete or block followers - Recent Posts en Sat, 25 May 2013 10:17:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 1tess on "Strange emails following my blog - spam or programs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-emails-following-my-blog-spam-or-programs#post-1272541 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:02:46 +0000 1tess 1272541@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Here is a related topic which includes a long discussion and macmanx (staff) responses:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/preventing-spammers-from-being-notified-of-new-posts/page/3?replies=79#post-1272351

]]> sanasorey on "Strange emails following my blog - spam or programs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-emails-following-my-blog-spam-or-programs#post-1272522 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:52:50 +0000 sanasorey 1272522@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, i have..thank you very much for your help ;)
I will wait for their judgement, hopefully it will ease my worries..
Thank you ;)

]]> timethief on "Strange emails following my blog - spam or programs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-emails-following-my-blog-spam-or-programs#post-1272517 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:49:01 +0000 timethief 1272517@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Staff can see redacted email addresses. I tagged this thread for their assistance. Please subscribe to it so you are notified when they respond.

]]> sanasorey on "Strange emails following my blog - spam or programs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-emails-following-my-blog-spam-or-programs#post-1272494 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:41:18 +0000 sanasorey 1272494@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, i'm aware of that ;) Thanks for replying so fast ;)
I posted the emails in questions but it's says they are reducted.
I very much suspect being them not human or not good intention, have seen similar address and comments that Aksimet stopped and flagged as spam. Now i'm getting worried, emails have very weird extension .pl, weird letters ..and pretty much nothing you can even pronounce.
First it was one but now i have 4 of them already following my blog.

]]> timethief on "Strange emails following my blog - spam or programs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-emails-following-my-blog-spam-or-programs#post-1272472 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:31:49 +0000 timethief 1272472@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Everyone on the internet can view and follow any public blog. That is in fact what the public designation means.

You can change your blog visibility to "private" http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ 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/

Note that you have complete control over everything that's posted to your blog.
comment moderation
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]]> sanasorey on "Strange emails following my blog - spam or programs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/strange-emails-following-my-blog-spam-or-programs#post-1272468 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:30:38 +0000 sanasorey 1272468@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Since yesterday i got few weird emails beings subscribed to my blog, is any way to remove them from my followers, block them? They appear not be from normal people, more like a spam, program, something and i'm not comfortable to post anything that they will get . First i got one but now every few hours there is another one....
Any help?

[email redacted] 22 minutes ago [email redacted] 9 hours, 16 minutes ago [email redacted] 21 hours, 16 minutes ago
[email redacted]

]]> towardbeginnersmind on "Safety of my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/safety-of-my-blog#post-1271602 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:39:39 +0000 towardbeginnersmind 1271602@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the help and support! Much appreciated!

]]> raincoaster on "Safety of my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/safety-of-my-blog#post-1271477 Sun, 19 May 2013 21:24:18 +0000 raincoaster 1271477@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you can get a court document of some kind and provide it to WordPress.com they can prevent him from email subscribing to your blog and possibly delete him as an RSS follower. And if you have a court order preventing him from following you online and he's subscribed to your blog, obviously you have enough to get him arrested.

]]> thistimethisspace on "Safety of my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/safety-of-my-blog#post-1271329 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:23:48 +0000 thistimethisspace 1271329@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Regarding "safety of my blog"
Blogs don't get hacked unless the blogger fails to follow security protocols. Please see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/security/

]]> thistimethisspace on "Safety of my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/safety-of-my-blog#post-1271325 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:21:19 +0000 thistimethisspace 1271325@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Everyone on the internet can view and follow any public blog. That is in fact what the public designation means.

You can change your blog visibility to "private" http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ 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/

Note that you have complete control over everything that's posted to your blog.
comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

See http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/how-to-starve-a-troll

]]> thistimethisspace on "Safety of my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/safety-of-my-blog#post-1271323 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:20:26 +0000 thistimethisspace 1271323@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That's not possible.

]]> towardbeginnersmind on "Safety of my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/safety-of-my-blog#post-1271202 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:44:10 +0000 towardbeginnersmind 1271202@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi, I know that you can't block or delete a user, as I've gone on the forums. However, I am in a unique situation (I hope). I have someone who has been stalking me for years electronically, hence why my blog doesn't show my name. I have had this one for over a year and figured it was safe but he is now "following" my blog. Is there any way that YOU, as administrators of the site can delete him? Or make it where he doesn't receive notifications maybe? His email is [email redacted] Thought it was worth a try asking! Thank you!

]]> timethief on "How to delete some of my blog followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-delete-some-of-my-blog-followers#post-1268143 Thu, 16 May 2013 19:07:49 +0000 timethief 1268143@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Everyone on the internet can view and follow any public blog. That is in fact what the public designation means.

You can change your blog visibility to "private" http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ 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/

Note that you have complete control over everything that's posted to your blog.
comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

See http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/how-to-starve-a-troll

]]> gigiwanders on "How to delete some of my blog followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-delete-some-of-my-blog-followers#post-1268140 Thu, 16 May 2013 19:06:18 +0000 gigiwanders 1268140@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How do I go about deleting a couple of my blog followers?
Thanks.
Gigi

]]> timethief on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1238719 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:10:13 +0000 timethief 1238719@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @jlaforest1
Report the blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/#reporting-a-wordpress-com-blog

]]> littledubs on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1238389 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:39:11 +0000 littledubs 1238389@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @raincoaster. First, thank you for being a very active and informative member of these forums. But... with whatever recent changes were made, I am now getting 5-10 new subscribers a day (and I know TONS of other bloggers saying the same thing). I'm not particularly interested in spending time trying to figure out which are spammers (most) and which are legitimate followers. Seems like a large portion of the new followers aren't even in English anyhow! So now we're being asked to check every new subscription and report SPAM every day? WP needs to take this seriously and fix whatever started this whole mess. This was not happening until a few weeks ago. In the past I would get new subscribers when I posted something interesting and tagged it well, maybe it got reblogged here and there. As important as I might like to think I am, these new subscribers, if you can even call them that aren't interested in reading my blog.

]]> raincoaster on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1237942 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:58:38 +0000 raincoaster 1237942@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You don't have to. You can go to that WP.com blog and use the Report as Spam feature.

]]> jlaforest1 on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1237938 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:56:38 +0000 jlaforest1 1237938@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's unfortunate we don't have this ability (to block members) when spammers like http://creditcardandfinance2020.wordpress.com/ are clearly taking advantage of this "public" setting. We should not have to carry and share other people's business cards if we don't want to, and that is effectively what is going on.

]]> timethief on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1236609 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:44:47 +0000 timethief 1236609@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I'm interested deleting and blocking some followers. Is there a way to do this?

No there is not and you're welcome.

]]> raymcdonald on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1236608 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:43:56 +0000 raymcdonald 1236608@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you timethief

]]> raymcdonald on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1236605 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:43:04 +0000 raymcdonald 1236605@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I know how to block comments - I must approve them. I'm interested deleting and blocking some followers. Is there a way to do this? Only a couple of knuckleheads I'd like to delete. Thank you.

]]> timethief on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1236604 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:42:32 +0000 timethief 1236604@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Everyone on the internet can view and follow any public blog. That is in fact what the public designation means.

You can change your blog visibility to "private" http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ 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/

Note that you have complete control over everything that's posted to your blog.
comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

See http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/how-to-starve-a-troll

]]> raymcdonald on "Deleting or Blocking Followers" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/deleting-or-blocking-followers#post-1236601 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:41:23 +0000 raymcdonald 1236601@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Is there a way to delete and/or block followers?

]]> timethief on "Offensive follower how blogs about my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offensive-follower-how-blogs-about-my-blog#post-1235489 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:18:22 +0000 timethief 1235489@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

]]> seeker57 on "Offensive follower how blogs about my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offensive-follower-how-blogs-about-my-blog#post-1235486 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:16:45 +0000 seeker57 1235486@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you. I will monitor her activities about my blog and will take it from there.

]]> timethief on "Offensive follower how blogs about my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offensive-follower-how-blogs-about-my-blog#post-1235482 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:12:05 +0000 timethief 1235482@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If and only if one or more of the following of these applies to your exact situation and you can prove it applies:
spam, personal threats, incitement of violence, abuse, promoting self-harm/suicide, mature content, impersonation, etc.
click the link I provided above and report the blog http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/

If none of those apply then read this > http://en.wordpress.com/freedom-of-speech/

]]> seeker57 on "Offensive follower how blogs about my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offensive-follower-how-blogs-about-my-blog#post-1235475 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:04:17 +0000 seeker57 1235475@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ who do I contact then?

]]> timethief on "Offensive follower how blogs about my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offensive-follower-how-blogs-about-my-blog#post-1235472 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:02:25 +0000 timethief 1235472@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ These are grounds for reporting a blog:
http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
(no spam, personal threats, incitement of violence, abuse, promoting self-harm/suicide, mature content, impersonation, etc.)
Note: Abuse complaints are not handled here on the technical Support Forums.

]]> timethief on "Offensive follower how blogs about my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offensive-follower-how-blogs-about-my-blog#post-1235469 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:00:47 +0000 timethief 1235469@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Everyone on the internet can view and follow any public blog. That is in fact what the public designation means.

You can change your blog visibility to "private" http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ 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/

Note that you have complete control over everything that's posted to your blog.
comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

See http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/how-to-starve-a-troll

]]> seeker57 on "Offensive follower how blogs about my blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/offensive-follower-how-blogs-about-my-blog#post-1235467 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:59:55 +0000 seeker57 1235467@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have a follower who has been feeding on my blogs: http://thebloggingpath.com/2013/04/21/give-me-a-word-theseeker/#more-197557. I found this out when a pingback showed up on my blog and I asked her that she is more than welcome to write a comment. When I visited her blog and a couple of comments, I find it offensive. Upon checking her site, I discovered this is what she does on other blogs as well.

How do I stop this person?

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