Blocking People

An unknown person has added me as a friend. They did not send me any information about themselves or the reason they want to be my buddy. I went to their page and there is zero information about this person and zero blog entries. There is, however, a long list of people he/she has as buddies. I would prefer a option to block such people. Is there one???

Looks like he buddied me too. I guess we should be honored!

Spam (and shady Search Engine Optimization) is such a profitable business these days that we get all sort of people trying to create links back to their sites. Pretty much all of them fail spectacularly, but many of them are quite annoying while they happen.

I assume this person thinks that by buddying everybody on the site, he'll be creating a link on their profile back to his, so that when he writes his spam blog posts they will have more Authority and therefore send more Google juice his way.

He's wrong, of course. And he's probably spent a lot of time posting entries to that blog, all of which have been swatted down by our spam filters. Still, it's annoying to watch.

I guess the best you can do is to simply ignore that buddy request.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

written by

Jason Kester on September 2, 2009

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