How is it a hubber with zero (0) hub articles published can have 642 followers?

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   diogenesposted 14 years ago

   How is it a hubber with zero (0) hub articles published can have 642 followers?

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   einronposted 14 years ago

   Dont know!  Would like to know, too!  It is puzzling, but maybe he had a following from another site.

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   Pcunixposted 14 years ago

   642 really hopeful people?
   
   Mass hypnosis?
   
   They deleted 1700 hubs they used to have?
   
   They have a very large family and LOTS of friends?
   
   They made great promises in their profile?

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   LuisEGonzalezposted 14 years ago

   Would not surprise me if friends and relatives are the followers. We once did a school project when I was a teacher, the project was a reading of a post in an internet site. Students had to leave comments.
   
   It was not surprising that the author(a teacher- not me) had well over 300 hits for the day.

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   junksellerposted 14 years ago

   I saw one guy like that.  Despite having very few hub articles, he did have thousands of forum posts.

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   simeonvisserposted 14 years ago

   The user's hubs have probably been unpublished. It's hard to get a following of 642 people without anything to show.

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   lex123posted 14 years ago

   Another reason is that after publishing few hubs and getting the followers they would have removed those hubs and added to their own site, if they have one, or made them unpublished later.

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   Keith Worthposted 14 years ago

   They have one or more of the following:
   
   - A lot of email addresses.
   - Way too much time on their hands.
   - 641 extra hub page accounts.
   
   Or it could be what all the other people are speculating, but I'd rather imagine someone trying to manage 642 separate accounts just for the sake of followers.

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   mistyhorizon2003posted 14 years ago

   Well it can't be separate Hubpage accounts because each account would have its own followers, you don't get them automatically added to every new account you open (sorry Keith Worth). My bet is they just removed a load of hubs elsewhere, but didn't close their Hubpage account afterwards.

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    To Start Againposted 14 years ago

    This happens when a hubber (usually one who was an active member for a while) decides to leave the site and unpunlishes their hubs but does not delete their account for whatever reason. Then you wind up with a hubber with no hubs or hubtivity and tons of followers.

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