Actually, it might have been part of a campaign that Hunger For Knowledge started to get things more and more active here.
People were making recommendations of underflowed blogs, and trying to get them more followers, or just pointing out blogs that they liked in the hopes of getting them more followers.
I bet there's nothing sinister going on, but just someone mentioning you as worthy to be followed. While the flurry of activity and following has died down a little, I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone was getting some more spillover from that. Most of us have made a load of new friends in the past week or so.
OK, thanks for clearing that up. Everybody who has been adding me has looked interesting, but I was starting to get nervous, not knowing where they had all come from!
Understandable. Having had a campaign to troll me into submission, hell, yes, I understand this.
But just remember: you can delete comments off your blog, you can set your comments to followers/people you are following only (one or the other or both), and you can block people so they can't follow you/comment at all on your page. Having used all of these options at some point or another, I can tell you, use of them when appropriate/you want to have a little more control so you feel safe? It's really helped me feel much safer on BL.
It also wasn't super obvious what was happening if you didn't have access to that information, so a little freak-out is, yeah, completely understandable. Glad to have helped.
I've been there, too. Not recently, thankfully. I actually had some show up on my livejournal years ago who would pretend to be friendly and ask me personal questions, but with IP addresses that matched the previous trolling, so they weren't very smart about it.
Generally all I have up here is book reviews and it's public, so there's not really anything worrisome in here. I was actually wondering if it was a friend of mine, who knew an author I had reviewed, and this author had apparently been happy with my review, but I still thought it unlikely that she had then started plugging my page.
http://booklikes.com/thread/2028/shout-out-for-newbies-and-underfollowed-but-active-blogs?p=1
People were making recommendations of underflowed blogs, and trying to get them more followers, or just pointing out blogs that they liked in the hopes of getting them more followers.
I bet there's nothing sinister going on, but just someone mentioning you as worthy to be followed. While the flurry of activity and following has died down a little, I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone was getting some more spillover from that. Most of us have made a load of new friends in the past week or so.
But just remember: you can delete comments off your blog, you can set your comments to followers/people you are following only (one or the other or both), and you can block people so they can't follow you/comment at all on your page. Having used all of these options at some point or another, I can tell you, use of them when appropriate/you want to have a little more control so you feel safe? It's really helped me feel much safer on BL.
It also wasn't super obvious what was happening if you didn't have access to that information, so a little freak-out is, yeah, completely understandable. Glad to have helped.
Generally all I have up here is book reviews and it's public, so there's not really anything worrisome in here. I was actually wondering if it was a friend of mine, who knew an author I had reviewed, and this author had apparently been happy with my review, but I still thought it unlikely that she had then started plugging my page.
Edit: I fail at lining up comments!
Except that one post with the sexy GIF. I allowed that one to stay up.