Stopping users following you?

[snibor]

I have some concerns of a new member with no posts who i was notified is “following me” and liking many old posts of mine. I just put on ignore. Is there a way to stop members from following you? @Vlad

 

[A bottle of Red]

Can they still follow you if you ignored them?

 

[snibor]

Can they still follow you if you ignored them?

I don’t know.

 

[acrowcounted]

I don’t think following actuall does anything. They don’t get notified of your posts or any other kind of alert, as far as I can tell.

 

[snibor]

I don’t think following actuall does anything. They don’t get notified of your posts or any other kind of alert, as far as I can tell.

Ok. Interesting. A bunch of my older posts were being liked by this person. I just felt uneasy.

 

[Vlad]

I have some concerns of a new member with no posts who i was notified is “following me” and liking many old posts of mine. I just put on ignore. Is there a way to stop members from following you? @Vlad

As far as I know, there is no way to stop people from following you. Truth be told, I don't even know what the follow functionality does, the follower may be notified by your new posts, I'll need to test this out myself to be sure.

 

[snibor]

As far as I know, there is no way to stop people from following you. Truth be told, I don't even know what the follow functionality does, the follower may be notified by your new posts, I'll need to test this out myself to be sure.

Ok thanks.

 

[papertiger]

As far as I know, there is no way to stop people from following you. Truth be told, I don't even know what the follow functionality does, the follower may be notified by your new posts, I'll need to test this out myself to be sure.

It is a bit weird to be followed around tPF.

Most devotees of the same brands know each other through the brand-specific forums. Others become close by forming friendships, even support-groups on certain threads. Is there really any need to follow?

 

[indiaink]

@Vlad perhaps we could just get rid of that functionality...

 

[Vlad]

I have removed this functionality entirely. I agree that it serves no real purpose, the community connections between members occur organically by interaction in the respective forums.