Is there a way to edit your followers list. I seem to have acquired a lot who don’t appear to be genuine
Thanks

Reply to post #1 (show post):
If you don't want a given blog as your Follower, you can block the blog. Then it will stop following you and will be gone from your Followers list. Go to your Followers list, hover over blog and click little round icon "block". When it's active it goes red. When you refresh the blog will be gone from your Followers list.

Ok thanks very much

Is there any way in your followers to see which ones have shelved no books? Or how many posts? Or to search for phrases like Westhill, cove, group, real estate, property manAgement, management , etc. in the initial posts? Maybe a clip of recent post?

The ones that have zero books and only one spam/commercial/ad post are the ones I want blocked. The ads have very common phrases and it would be wonderful if booklikes could just remove those accounts.

Although of course I am boycotting any business or product masking as a fellow reader to force me to read their advertisement post (currently visiting their blog to see is the only way I have found to see if a follower isn't really another book person and needs removing), it is still absolutely infuriating knowing they are "winning" by forcing me to read their ads in order to block them.

I am currently following back any real readers/authors who follow me. Whether or not interested in their posts and regardless if we have reading tastes in common. That way, when my followers grow I can at least just check out the ones I haven't followed back. Soon, that could make my dashboard ridiculous to keep up with.

I'm not done removing spammers who followed meFeb.-April; I cannot keep up. It's making booklikes a chore rather than a book site for me. I'm still behind posting January reviews and book challenges. I'd like to enjoy booklikes and not have to keep cleaning out followers who then follow people I follow or who followed me. I'm here to catalog my books and my book discussions; not be a portal for these spammers.

I'm almost at the point where I will just bookmark my friends booklikes blog so I can read their posts after just deleting my account.

Blocking a spam account only removes it from my followers. Even emailing booklikes with link to the account doesn't make it go away.

Please either handle or give us tools to handle.

Reply to post #4 (show post):
@Debbie's Spurts:
In Followers tab you have three sorting options: blog title, last activity and date they started following you. Thanks to these ways of sorting you can easily find new followers and those who recently were active or not. That should help. We do want you to feel comfy on BL.

We looked through your followers lists and it seems there aren't any suspicious looking profiles on your list. Some of the people start following others to see what's going on and how blogging looks on BL, some are more active than others. If you don't want to follow a person, you don't have to follow him/her back. To make the blogs gone from your followers list, block them and your posts will disappear form theirs feed.

If you notice that someone is behaving inappropriately, uses bad language or is bothering you, let as know and if needed we're proceed all necessary actions. We do take steps in every situation where our terms and guidelines are violated.

I'm pretty vigilant about blocking spam or other suspicious accounts. I just dislike the amount of time I keep having to do it, particularly if I have to do it over and over again for the same blasted ads I now have memorized.

Reply to post #6 (show post):
@Debbie's Spurts: Sorry for trouble. Do you still find suspicious profiles on your followers list? The list looks OK and it seems there aren't any suspicious looking profiles.