An oddity

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  1. Pamela Kinnaird W profile image89
    Pamela Kinnaird Wposted 8 years ago

    What's up with the people who join and then a few days later they 'follow' someone new every second.  I see it tonight and I saw it the other evening, too, where someone is somehow hitting new names to follow every second.  (Almost sixty names in a minute is showing up in their hubtivity.)

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    1. Polly C profile image92
      Polly Cposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      I know, I have a few like that following me, one i just discovered a moment ago. I'm not sure if it is computer automated or not? Someone had a post on here a few days ago suggesting it was.

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    2. Origin profile image58
      Originposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      It's an indirect way of getting a lot of traffic quickly as well as comments. Granted the traffic is coming from fellow hubbers usually, but still.

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      1. Polly C profile image92
        Polly Cposted 8 years agoin reply to this

        But a lot of them don't even have any hubs. And who ever comments on such a profile? Personally I only read hubbers who have either left me a comment or left me some fan mail. Or someone I had a conversation with in the forum.

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        1. Origin profile image58
          Originposted 8 years agoin reply to this

          Perhaps they had hubs which were flagged as spam or a spun article or something, yet the bot keeps on adding people. I'm not sure, I usually don't pay them much attention.

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          1. Glenn Raymond profile image57
            Glenn Raymondposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            That is a lot.  I enjoy reading other's work, but I've never gone that far.  I am finding that it is far better to just visit on the forums, but I do still read others hubs now and then.  It is simply a matter of common courtesy for others, as well as learning from others.  This is a great conversation topic, by the way.

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  2. KCC Big Country profile image86
    KCC Big Countryposted 8 years ago

    I think they assume it's a social networking site where having more followers means something more than it does.

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    1. Cagsil profile image81
      Cagsilposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Agreed!

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    2. wilderness profile image98
      wildernessposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      That's the thought I've had.  I, too, have shown up with a couple of followers that have no hubs - I check who I'm following just to make sure they have'nt somehow subverted HP and now I'm following them (I'm programming illiterate and just assume such things are possible if unlikely)

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  3. jondav profile image74
    jondavposted 8 years ago

    I've had a couple like that in the last few days - i just ignore it.

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