109 upvotes, 10 direct replies (showing 10)
Interesting idea. Someone asked about this on the original post as well, and after hearing the feedback it’s something the team is looking into.
Right now you can block individual followers, but there isn’t a way to remove a follower. (Though I suppose, you could block someone, which removes them from your follower list, and then unblock them to accomplish this.)
Comment by Malphos101 at 10/09/2021 at 19:56 UTC
145 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Whats the name of the metric you guys are tracking for followers that the management demands you opt-in everyone by default?
We know its metric chasing and not user benefit you are doing, can we just get some honesty on what that metric is called?
Comment by TheBigKahooner at 10/09/2021 at 20:42 UTC*
56 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Why doesn't disabling the ability for people to follow you also remove all your current followers?
Also, this definitely doesn't show all the followers. My follower count shown on the profile is 4 but the list only shows one account. So even if I block all the accounts in that list and disable the ability for people to follow me, I'll still have followers, which I don't want.
Comment by [deleted] at 10/09/2021 at 19:56 UTC*
31 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by Wanderlustfull at 10/09/2021 at 20:48 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Right now you can block individual followers, but there isn’t a way to remove a follower. (Though I suppose, you could block someone, which removes them from your follower list, and then unblock them to accomplish this.)
Surely this implies that the code exists to remove a single follower (as opposed to opting out of followers all together). Can you not just spin that function of the code out of the 'block' feature and stick it on an 'unfollow' button click?
Comment by animatroniczombie at 11/09/2021 at 00:51 UTC
30 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Please let us delete followers, a lot of women and queer folks on here are being stalked by people. Also the block feature doesn't seem to block someone from viewing a profile, but blocks the victim from seeing the creep, the opposite of how it should work
Comment by wfaulk at 11/09/2021 at 04:07 UTC
16 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Right now you can block individual followers
Hahaha.
You know you just made the block feature totally useless a few weeks ago, right?
Comment by Cool_Ranch_Dodrio at 11/09/2021 at 04:40 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'd love to see more granular blocking. As it stands, if a bad actor wants you to stop challenging them in a sub or reporting their bad behavior, all they have to do is harass you in pm's and chat until you block them. This creates a perverse incentive to harass users.
It would be nice to be able to block pm's and chat separately from public-facing communication.
Comment by ThatOneGuy1294 at 11/09/2021 at 18:18 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Can you explain why it shows I have 4 followers while also saying I have 16? https://puu.sh/IaCPL/bc9fdbbb3d.png[1][2] and when I hover over someone, I only have "Start Chat" (which I have completely opted out of...) and "Follow" https://puu.sh/IaCSW/747d4167f0.png[3]
1: https://puu.sh/IaCPL/bc9fdbbb3d.png
2: https://puu.sh/IaCPL/bc9fdbbb3d.png
3: https://puu.sh/IaCSW/747d4167f0.png
Comment by ZeroAntagonist at 11/09/2021 at 22:33 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
When are you going to make it so blocking someone actually blocks them from viewing your profile, submissions, and comments? Right now blocking someone only makes it so you can't see what they are posting. Say someone is stalking me, I can block them, and they can now post comments and submissions about me and I can't see them...yet they can see everything I do. I understand someone can just make a new username to get around all of this. But how it currently is is not what users think is actually happening.
Blocking works exactly opposite of how it should and it gives people a false sense of security. How it 8s now, people think that when they block a user, that user can no longer see them...which is the reverse of what happens. It's stupid,
Comment by HiddenStill at 12/09/2021 at 10:03 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I can only see the first 16 followers. How do I see the other 200?
I'd also like a quick way of removing some of them.
