WordPress.com Forums » Tag: disable like notifications - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/disable-like-notifications WordPress.com Forums » Tag: disable like notifications - Recent Posts en Fri, 24 May 2013 00:21:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1035630 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:04:10 +0000 timethief 1035630@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ :)

]]> wildhairyhaggis on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1035623 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:53:09 +0000 wildhairyhaggis 1035623@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @timethief
Thanks for following :)

]]> timethief on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034732 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:56:20 +0000 timethief 1034732@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome and peace be with you always.

]]> taobabe on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034729 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:54:10 +0000 taobabe 1034729@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ LOL. Thanks everyone, for your assistance. :-) I don't mind it so much, now that you all have explained the reasons behind it. Peace and light to everyone.

]]> timethief on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034571 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:30:53 +0000 timethief 1034571@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh my! You are a poet. Now following!

]]> wildhairyhaggis on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034534 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:10:23 +0000 wildhairyhaggis 1034534@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ and so it begins
the nature within us
reaches out
to help
the nature without us
and so
we help
because of the desire
to help :)

]]> timethief on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034525 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:06:33 +0000 timethief 1034525@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And so it begins. The desire to help that cannot be overcome. ;)

]]> wildhairyhaggis on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034518 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:04:02 +0000 wildhairyhaggis 1034518@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I came on looking for something completely different and was side tracked :)

]]> timethief on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034510 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 21:01:18 +0000 timethief 1034510@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's good to have another problem solver on board. :)

]]> wildhairyhaggis on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034507 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:58:56 +0000 wildhairyhaggis 1034507@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @timethief
You're welcome :)

]]> timethief on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034498 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:54:52 +0000 timethief 1034498@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @wildhairyhaggis
Thanks for sharing the relevant instructions for disabling email notifications of "likes" on the Settings > Discussions page under "E-mail me whenever" __ Someone likes one of my posts.

]]> sanctifiedbrother on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034490 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:49:12 +0000 sanctifiedbrother 1034490@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi taobabe,
There are many spam "likers" out there. It's a traffic scheme. There are a few on my blog. The idea is to like your page so you be curious enough to see who they are (traffic! Another page load! LOL). You end up on their landing page and get soft sold on the same program they're using. They win by gaining another page load, another person in their downline, or both.

You can turn off notifications to the likes, however I believe they'll still show up in your notifications when you go to WordPress…

]]> wildhairyhaggis on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034403 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:25:40 +0000 wildhairyhaggis 1034403@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi Taobabe

Yes to turn off email likes, go to Dashboard/Settings/Discussion and in the block - "email me whenever" , untick "someone likes one of my posts.

hope that helps :)

]]> taobabe on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034361 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:42:21 +0000 taobabe 1034361@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for responding, absurdoldbird. I don't want to turn off likes if there are legitimate reasons for their existences, so I'll just keep them as is. I just don't want to be email-notified every time I get a like. It fills up my email in box, like bad spam does.

Like I said, I am happy to receive email notifications to written responses to my posts, but not all these fake likes. Would there be a way to turn off the email notifications for the likes, but keep the email notifications for everything else?

]]> absurdoldbird on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1034068 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:25:29 +0000 absurdoldbird 1034068@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Likes can't be removed, but you can turn them on or off on a post by post basis.

Also bear in mind that a post can be 'Liked' without anyone having visited the post itself, via the Reader and elsewhere. So it might not all be bots. But unfortunately, yes, some will be. That goes with the territory...

]]> taobabe on "All these FAKE likes!!! :-(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/all-these-fake-likes-#post-1032944 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:47:35 +0000 taobabe 1032944@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't mind getting likes. I am happy when people visit my site and read my posts. I don't get many visits, but that's because I am writing about esoteric things that are not mainstream, and that's ok. Not everyone is into this stuff. I get it.

But I am getting all these 'fake' likes from people who have never even visited my blog, and they are identical to each other. They are obviously computer-generated automatically every time I create a new blog, and I am wondering if all this spam is something that WordPress came out with, or if it's it a viral spam bot that some user spread onto the WordPress community.

Is anyone else having this issue?

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