WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:02:49 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 justjennifer on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1028355 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:37:22 +0000 justjennifer 1028355@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @silvioprezzolini - How do you define spam likes? People whose Gravatar profile leads you to spam websites, people who are "serial likers" on your posts?

FYI-Any logged in WordPress.com user can "like" any post that appears on WordPress.com from the WordPress.com Admin bar, whether the site owner has enabled "Likes" or not.

If you have set up your email notifications to receive notices of new "Likes" then simply turn them off.

]]> raincoaster on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026937 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:47:15 +0000 raincoaster 1026937@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I think you could use the Report as Spam button to report spam likes, though. I use it to report forum spammers.

]]> 1tess on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026894 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:50:06 +0000 1tess 1026894@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The emails may be genuine, but the likes may be just as genuine as the tooth fairy. You can't stop them though.

]]> thegiddygoat on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026885 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:39:58 +0000 thegiddygoat 1026885@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You say that people can't like your posts because you have 'likes' turned off. Well actually that option just stops the likes from showing on your blog. People CAN still like your posts from the Reader. And that is why you get genuine emails, and not fake ones as you suggest.

]]> raincoaster on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026838 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:12:48 +0000 raincoaster 1026838@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Well of course. The spam likers are subscribed to the blogs and they Like it immediately once it goes up. You don't get the email at the time but later because that's how the emails get sent out.

]]> silvioprezzolini on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026835 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:09:26 +0000 silvioprezzolini 1026835@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I do most my posts on the IOS app.
I do have to later go back and untick the like & share buttons because I cannot do it from my phone

most recent, I had the likes off about 4 hours later than the post-- but the email came about 24 hours after the edit where I removed the like....

]]> silvioprezzolini on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026831 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:07:19 +0000 silvioprezzolini 1026831@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ the fact is, people can't "LIKE" my posts... the options get turned off.

so where/why is this coming from them...

]]> silvioprezzolini on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026828 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:45 +0000 silvioprezzolini 1026828@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ no, they send them to me via email
I don't show the like/share buttons on any posts, yet I've gotten three of these

to an email address only they have- they all follow this format

"*RANDOMBLOGGER* liked your post on *NAME OF MY BLOG*

*TITLE OF RECENT BLOG POST HERE*

You should go see what they're up to. Maybe you'll like their blog as much as they liked yours!

Great posts worth seeing from *BLOGGER*:

How I've managed to bring you to my blog
About

]]> raincoaster on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026820 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:59:41 +0000 raincoaster 1026820@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Wait, what?

You think WP.com is running around putting spam likes on other peoples' blogs using your name? They are not.

]]> silvioprezzolini on "Please stop lying to me through spam, and I hope you aren't using me to do so" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-stop-lying-to-me-through-spam-and-i-hope-you-arent-using-me-to-do-so#post-1026803 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:30:35 +0000 silvioprezzolini 1026803@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I occasionally get an email saying that "XXX" of blog "XXX" 'liked my post' and I should go check out their blog.

I turn all likes off and have received these emails 24 hours after such changes

so how is this possible?

they appear to be pretty blatantly false and offensive,

My greater fear is that you are perhaps using my name/site to make such claim to other bloggers?

Pleas don't

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