I git a message I am being "followed" by another member

Marie5656

Marie5656

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I just got a notification that I am being followed by a new member "Susan755" . I do not understand what being followed means. Plus, this person just joined this morning, and has a blocked user profile. They have also not posted any messages yet,

I find it a bit concerning. Think it is a bot? Why else would someone join and imediately start following a member? I do not get it
 
hmm - I got some thing like that, too, earlier this morning. Just tried to find it, but it's disappeared into into the ether.

This person scribbled a chatty few lines and suggested I contact them through gmail. I kinda remember that they were now following me, don't know how to check if they are.

struck me as rather strange. .. wonder if it's happened to other members?
 
hollydolly said:
I get them all the time. Some are genuine members of the forum, and they are welcome to follow me if they wish, currently I have 48 members of this forum who follow my posts ...:Dand others are people who have just joined and are usually spammers, so they get banned quite quickly
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where do you go to see who's following you? a quick search yielded no results...
 
hollydolly said:
I get them all the time. Some are genuine members of the forum, and they are welcome to follow me if they wish, currently I have 48 members of this forum who follow my posts ...:Dand others are people who have just joined and are usually spammers, so they get banned quite quickly
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Doesn't following someone mean their posts show up in your newsfeed?
I can see who I am following but can't see who is following me or maybe nobody is.
 
Marie5656 said:
I just got a notification that I am being followed by a new member "Susan755" . I do not understand what being followed means. Plus, this person just joined this morning, and has a blocked user profile. They have also not posted any messages yet,

I find it a bit concerning. Think it is a bot? Why else would someone join and imediately start following a member? I do not get it
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I got notice about same person following me too. i didn't check out. But it may not mean anything, except now I'm wondering who else this person is following. No guarantee they are female, if 'up to something' they may think claiming they are might seem less suspicious, maybe???
 
katlupe said:
Doesn't following someone mean their posts show up in your newsfeed?
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No. It just means you could go to a certain place in your own member page, and click on their name, to bring up their recent posts. That is all.
It is one of many ways, to catch up on some posts or a poster that you have an ongoing interest in.
It's totally fine, if it's someone you are familiar with, but it makes no sense with a stranger who just joined. I wouldn't like that either.
And, it's Definitely a huge red flag,
if someone you have not known and interacted with, previously, asks or encourages you to e-mail them (which also gives them your email address)
NO, don't do that.

This new member , today, is likely to be banned, or already has been, imo, but I don't know what admin might do or not do, about this sort of thing.
 
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katlupe said:
Doesn't following someone mean their posts show up in your newsfeed?
I can see who I am following but can't see who is following me or maybe nobody is.
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I'm following you. Go to your profile page and click on About. That should show Following and Followers. You're right about the newsfeed, if I follow someone and click on Newsfeed, it will show their latest content. I never do that, I just consider it befriending someone, like the old solftware, only now they call it following.
 
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