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station_two
station_two
Inspiring
May 14, 2014
Answered

Prevent or erasing someone "following" me in the forum

  • May 14, 2014
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Is there a way to prevent someone from showing up as "following" me or erase that user if he's already there in that capacity in my profile?

There are some users I certainly don't want to be associated with by the forum software.

I feel like I'm being stalked by a nut.

If there's no way to achieve that, then that's a significant bug, even a deal breaker.

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    Correct answer Dave Merchant

    Pat Willener wrote:

    You can "unfollow" stalkers; here is how...

    Sorry but you can't. You're mixing up "following" and "followers".

    You can stop following someone else, but you cannot stop a user from following you. Unlike Facebook et al, Jive has no blocking features.

    3 replies

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    July 5, 2014

    Found the following: from the "My Stuff" 50+ button click on Connection Updates - you will get a list like this

    My guess is that Dismiss (or Dismiss all) will stop the following.  Or will it just dismiss the notification?

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    July 5, 2014

    Nice guess, but wrong!  I just did a Dismiss all, but I still have 9 followers...

    mytaxsite
    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    July 6, 2014

    Nice guess, but wrong! I just did a Dismiss all, but I still have 9 followers...

    There is nothing you can do if people are staking you except report them to the police If it was so simple by pressing few keys on a keaboard, life would be simple but life isn't as simple as you think. Today, I can't get into the web forums so I have to use email to post this.

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    May 16, 2014

    You can "unfollow" stalkers; here is how.

    1. On your profile page click on FOLLOWERS
    2. Hover the pointer over the user you want to unfollow, then click on the lower right corner
    3. Click on Following in ...
    4. Click on Stop Following
    station_two
    station_twoAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2014

    Thanks, Pat.  Unfortunately it hasn't worked for me.  It doesn't get rid of the pesky "follower". 

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    May 16, 2014

    I have done it with one of my "followers"; it is still there, but the '1' in "following in ... 1" has disappeared.

    I don't know if I am still followed; maybe one of the new forum admins can have a look at it.

    station_two
    station_twoAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 14, 2014

    It's obvious that this poster is a spammer intent on driving traffic to his Photo Retouching and Clipping business in Bangladesh.

    I'll add him to the spam thread.  His user name is Atiqur Sumon.

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    July 18, 2014

    Out of curiosity, other than the "follower" appearing as a statistic, exactly what harm do they do?  Are they sending you messages?  Answering your every post?  What?  Just report them in every case.  Sooner or later a mod or admin will figure them out and ban them.

    In my opinion the concept of "followers" seems like kind of a useless feature of the forum software to me.  It'd be better if the designers of the software put more effort into the "To Work" option instead of adding such things.

    -Noel

    mytaxsite
    mytaxsite
    Inspiring
    July 18, 2014

    Sometimes you just become a follower of somebody unwittingly if you click on that person's profile while you are still logged in.   That is my experience so far so I make sure I have two browsers open - One to post on the forums and one to check something else so that I don't become somebody's stalker!


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