Current Events > Yo, what's up with this Followers feature??

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I keep getting these notifications here that someone is now following me and when I go look at the profile, it's always a Rookie User, Novice User, or Regular User. What is up with that? Who are these people?? The alts be gettin' crazy, ya'll. What's the point of following somewhere on here again? I'm losing touch.

Your followers see your posts highlighted in yellow, because they are focusing on you

Additionally, if you follow one of your followers, you become Friends with each other

xue1 posted...

Your followers see your posts highlighted in yellow, because they are focusing on you

Additionally, if you follow one of your followers, you become Friends with each other

Oh, ok. I knew about half of that. I guess now I don't get who these newer users are. I bet they're alts or something.

Yes, they are alts. Or people that were banned. Banned people create a new account, it says Rookie User, and then they follow SableWolfAngel

I get those too from time to time. If it's someone I don't recognize then I just ignore it. I could give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they're just lurkers that like your posts or something so I'm not going to call out the accounts except for one, which was Tails which makes me even more skeptical of the others

xue1 posted...

Your followers see your posts highlighted in yellow, because they are focusing on you

Additionally, if you follow one of your followers, you become Friends with each other

If you friend them then block them you can remove them from your followers list. You can then unblock then if you wish.

AldousIsDead posted...

If you friend them then block them you can remove them from your followers list. You can then unblock then if you wish.

Forgive my sin of bumping a days old topic but I just wanted to say THANK YOU, for this, it works!!

KookyCouture posted...

Forgive my sin of bumping a days old topic but I just wanted to say THANK YOU, for this, it works!!

Happy to have been of service.

Is it Tails? Because Tails does this all the time

They are doing it to keep tabs on you and they want you to know it.

If they just wanted to quietly stalk you they would just use the tag system.

You have enemies.

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I got a new one 2 days ago and did this, he doesn't appear to have come back. As far as I can tell it works. Anyone else have similar experience as NCloud?

SableWolfAngel posted...

I keep getting these notifications here that someone is now following me and when I go look at the profile, it's always a Rookie User, Novice User, or Regular User. What is up with that? Who are these people?? The alts be gettin' crazy, ya'll. What's the point of following somewhere on here again? I'm losing touch.

Probably just brutai alts

I figured it was a friend request not so much getting tagged

xue1 posted...

Yes, they are alts. Or people that were banned. Banned people create a new account, it says Rookie User, and then they follow SableWolfAngel

Do you think they're genuine fans of my posts? Or just creepers who probably got banned for a reason?

WaterLink posted...

I get those too from time to time. If it's someone I don't recognize then I just ignore it. I could give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they're just lurkers that like your posts or something so I'm not going to call out the accounts except for one, which was Tails which makes me even more skeptical of the others

Yeah, I don't really recognize the names. It's not really obvious. I think I'd almost respect them more if they followed me, then sent me a message stating who they are and why they're following me.