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I do need an option to block spam followers or followers with weird or disturbing content in their blogs. I've just started my wordpress blog, I did so, because I thought that this was a great platform. But I definitely don't want to have "spam-followers" or be in any way whatsoever connected to them!
The blog I need help with is lesezeichenkultur.wordpress.com.
No, there is none, alas.
That's a pity. I always wanted to try out a "wordpress"-blog, because I felt that this platform looked a bit more "serious" than others. It felt like a platform where I could blog about work-related themes. If WordPress allows spam-followers to make use of my blog by adding their names and comments to it, I don't feel at ease when it comes to telling my friends and audience about it.
There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. For more information please take the time to read "5 things every blogger should know about spam" on this page Akismet: How it works http://akismet.com/how/
The vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam.
The worst of all spam containing malware and viruses is not sent to us. It's removed as it could bring down many blogs if opened.
On the spam that Akismet catches it takes only seconds to click "empty spam" and you don't even have to click "empty spam" if you don't want to. Akismet will maintain comments it has caught for 15 days from the time they were received, and then it will delete the comment automatically.
If you get spam that slips by Akismet then mark it as spam (do not delete it) and over time Akismet will learn it's spam.
If WordPress allows spam-followers to make use of my blog by adding their names and comments to it, I don't feel at ease when it comes to telling my friends and audience about it.
No one can "make use" of your blog if you don't allow them to. If you set up and use comment moderation, then only the comments that you approve will be posted on your blog. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation
I'm having a similar problem- my blog is set up for a specific group of people, and I find that each time I post lots of unrelated people suddenly become followers (presumably because they want me to follow theirs?). Given that the theme of my blog is about families and children, it's somewhat disconcerting.
Is there a way to moderate who can follow a wordpress blog?
No. A public blog is a public blog and anyone with internet access can subscribe to the RSS Feed. Also anyone with a WordPress.com account who is logged in can follow any public WordPress.com blog. If you want privacy then you can make the blog private > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ That is your only option.
I understand that the nature of a public page means you can't always control who sees it. However, there IS a difference between having to check a blog regularly for updates, and having the updates come directly to one's inbox. The option to moderate followers would greatly reduce the number of spammers who are only following a blog because they want to generate followers for their own (or may be following for other inappropraite reasons). I've noticed that other blog hosts offer this option, and I personally feel that WordPress could too. Just some feedback for consideration.
It would be really nice to have the ability to remove spam followers. I've just noticed an influx of strange business related, foreign language type followers and all of the links show that I'm dealing with a non blog.
I'd love to cut it out.
If more WordPress Bloggers complain perhaps they will devise a way for us to manage the junk.
I'll chip in my agreement, I'm tired of my spam followers and would love to have a way to remove them!!
Me too!
Here's the rub:
Bottom line: There is no effective way to block anyone on the internet from subscribing to public blogs.
I would love to be able to remove spam followers too. I would have thought it was in WordPress' best interest to remove spam sites especially in view of the recent botnet attack. If we can't block spam followers we should be able to report them as suspicious and get them checked out immediately, just by a simple click from our Dashboard. Please think about this, WordPress!
If they have a blog at WP.com, you can go to that blog and Report As Spam the spam follow. If a blog spams one way, it surely spams in others, and the more reports on a particular spammer blog staff have the better.
I agree we should the ability to remove followers. It could be as easy as having an option to approve all new followers. Should be very simple. That way I can block insurance salesmen from Texas trying to sell me insurance or any number of nice foreign language spam bots from spreading their nonsense pages. IT'S REALLY ANNOYING, WORDPRESS!
I agree. I'm getting tired of spam followers who are simply trying to sell me something. It IS VERY annoying. Word Press needs to do something about it.
I have blogged about this phenomenon twice, just because it's so annoying. Timethief has delineated the problems quite clearly; as raincoaster mentioned, I simply report these blogs as spam, and I notice a good number of them are actually deleted for violations of TOS. Unfortunately, the (l)users continue to hang around as followers; I agree that it would be nice if WordPress gave us a way of blocking these or removing them from our list of followers.
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