Ridding yourself of a follower.

[Emirus]

I’ve just posted this in Story Feedback as a comment on another thread but then thought the AH might be a better place.

Anyone know if it’s possible to rid yourself of a follower and stop them getting notifications of your stories? I’ve got some followers who fall into that category. I’m thinking along the same lines as when you unfriend someone on Facebook and they never know.

I stopped following someone months ago (and they know and know why) but started following them again a few days ago. They’ve obviously got the notification but I’d told them already. But can it be done the other way round? I’m sure there are many writers who would like to edit their list of followers particularly the ones who are following umpteen people.
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[SimonDoom]

I’ve just posted this in Story Feedback as a comment on another thread but then thought the AH might be a better place.

Anyone know if it’s possible to rid yourself of a follower and stop them getting notifications of your stories? I’ve got some followers who fall into that category. I’m thinking along the same lines as when you unfriend someone on Facebook and they never know.

I stopped following someone months ago (and they know and know why) but started following them again a few days ago. They’ve obviously got the notification but I’d told them already. But can it be done the other way round? I’m sure there are many writers who would like to edit their list of followers particularly the ones who are following umpteen people.
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I'm not aware of any equivalent to a "block" function at Literotica.

I can't figure out why one would want to do this, unless you're confident that it's somebody bombing your stories and you want to prevent that. But I don't think the Site provides this as an option for that problem.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I stopped following someone months ago (and they know and know why) but started following them again a few days ago. They’ve obviously got the notification but I’d told them already. But can it be done the other way round? I’m sure there are many writers who would like to edit their list of followers particularly the ones who are following umpteen people.
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The follow functionality is a service for readers, not for authors - it's not obvious why authors should have the ability to edit their followers, any more than I get a say in whether you bookmark my story pages in your browsers.

If somebody's abusing it you could talk to L&M about it, but otherwise probably not much you can do here.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I’m sure there are many writers who would like to edit their list of followers particularly the ones who are following umpteen people.

Why would that be a worry? So what if someone follows hundreds of authors? Maybe they read a lot.

 

[ChloeTzang]

There isn’t. Literotica is a readers site, not a “social” site like Facebook. You can’t block someone from following you. Lots of readers just follow any author whose story they like, and why not. They’re here to read them. Some readers read a lot. Good for them. I’m certainly not jealous that they like other authors. I’d rather that than they obsess over me, and that would worry me a lot more.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't think Lit has a'mute' function which is what it seems you're looking for. I know you can't get rid of a follower.

I'm sure there's more to this story, but I don't understand why you don['t want someone to follow you-unless they're a blatant troll-and don't see what harm it does.

The things I see lately in the form of people being overly sensitive to meaningless things, over reacting to things that have been happening since day one here, the absolute obsession with voting, not just on their story, but what others are getting and some other behavior that goes from paranoid to thin skinned to hall monitor can't mind their own business behavior...

All this, I think, is an offshoot of everything going on in the world and it grating on people, and of course its all out of our hands and some of that frustration is showing in worrying or nitpicking about the simplest things.

I see this a lot in real life lately, see it in myself here and there where things get on my nerves that never did before, including here although I don't say anywhere near as much as U'd like to because its a waste of time.

When it comes to something like this...wanting to ditch a follower? Use perspective, compared to what most people are going through these days is this something to waste time on, or even care about?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I don't think Lit has a'mute' function which is what it seems you're looking for. I know you can't get rid of a follower...

Well there is a 'mute' function, it's just that you have to mute everyone. Turn off comments, voting, and private messages.

 

[Javahead]

There isn’t. Literotica is a readers site, not a “social” site like Facebook. You can’t block someone from following you. Lots of readers just follow any author whose story they like, and why not. They’re here to read them. Some readers read a lot. Good for them. I’m certainly not jealous that they like other authors. I’d rather that than they obsess over me, and that would worry me a lot more.

There are a few dedicated 1-bombers that I’ll admit I fantasized about blocking on my novel length foray into Loving Wives - when the first 1-vote on a New installment arrives in the first 10 minutes after the story goes live it’s pretty obvious they weren’t reading the story, just reflexively voting it down.

The thing is, any attempt to block them would be ineffective at best, and add work for L & M for minimal gain. And though it’s aggravating, trolls and punitive downvoting are par for the Literotica course.

But overall, the current follow function helps writers at least as much as readers - it increases the odds of favorable eyes on the story in the first few days.

For the trolls? I’m trying to grow a thicker skin.

 

[Emirus]

I start a thread to get an answer to a simple question because personally I didn’t know the answer and you all get tangy. Get out of bed the wrong side today?

 

[gunhilltrain]

There are a few dedicated 1-bombers that I’ll admit I fantasized about blocking on my novel length foray into Loving Wives - when the first 1-vote on a New installment arrives in the first 10 minutes after the story goes live it’s pretty obvious they weren’t reading the story, just reflexively voting it down.

The thing is, any attempt to block them would be ineffective at best, and add work for L & M for minimal gain. And though it’s aggravating, trolls and punitive downvoting are par for the Literotica course.

But overall, the current follow function helps writers at least as much as readers - it increases the odds of favorable eyes on the story in the first few days.

For the trolls? I’m trying to grow a thicker skin.

Wow, you had a novel-length foray into Loving Wives? That's quite brave. You're the Audie Murphy or Sergeant York of Liteorotica. The use of the word "foray" ("a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory") is quite apt.

 

[Javahead]

Wow, you had a novel-length foray into Loving Wives? That's quite brave. You're the Audie Murphy or Sergeant York of Liteorotica. The use of the word "foray" ("a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory") is quite apt.

It’s under my “All my Stories “ link. “Plum Blossoms-Full Bloom”

Not my best work, perhaps, but after the first chapter got several anon comments to the effect of “I hate stories like this” I could count on a flurry of 1 votes in the first couple of hours, and an extremely low score during that critical day or so it’s visible on the New list.

I regret that I got disgusted and disabled voting - it would be interesting to see where they’d have eventually struggled to.

I suspect my current story - a much more manageable 50k words so far - will receive a similar fate, though. At least this one is deliberately aimed at ruffling feathers. It’ll be a few more weeks before it posts, though.

 

[vanmyers86]

I'm sure there's more to this story, but I don't understand why you don't want someone to follow you-unless they're a blatant troll-and don't see what harm it does.

I've had a couple of commenters who were downright creepy about wanting to meet me. As a woman, I feel uneasy and/or anxious with such comments. Which is my problem, of course, but perhaps that gives some context.

 

[Voboy]

I start a thread to get an answer to a simple question because personally I didn’t know the answer and you all get tangy. Get out of bed the wrong side today?

The simple question was easy to answer. It's the commentary in the last sentence of your OP that, I think, garnered the attention.

And, FWIW, I don't get why you'd want to do this, either. I don't come here for social-media-style drama. The ego aspects of follow/unfollow don't interest me. If someone wants to be informed that I've published a story, I can't see why that should do anything but please me.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Wow, you had a novel-length foray into Loving Wives? That's quite brave. You're the Audie Murphy or Sergeant York of Liteorotica. The use of the word "foray" ("a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory") is quite apt.

I have several Novel length items in LW along with several Novella length ones. Some have done well other not so, but it depends on the trolls feeding arrangements I think.

 

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