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Can't turn off "timeline follow"
On my Friends menu I have toggled "timeline follow" to OFF for a few of my Friends. Their plurks keep showing up on my Timeline anyway. I don't want to dump friends and send their Karma down, but my timeline will start to get more crowded, and I'm getting tired of muting individual plurks since they are always by the same few people.
I’m annoyed, but will keep using Plurk
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With the help of the great community, this bug is now fixed. Thanks for those that emailed me.
In the future: you just unfollow a friend to unfollow this person.
If you have some friends, that are unfollowed, but you still receive plurks from them, then do following: Go to their profile page, follow them and then unfollow them (this will reset the following).
Hope it works this time.
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@whoali:
I think the reason you only see some messages is that they send private messages to you... These aren't affected by the following/unfollowing, i.e. you will receive them.
The person won't loose that much karma if you unfriend them (they only loose karma if a lot of people unfriend them).
I suggest cleaning up your friend list - it's meant for people you care about and trust.
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I've signed out and signed in again, but I can still see plurks from people I've marked as "timeline follow" off. If there is some other option I need to select, please let me know. Thanks. -
Oh, I got it - I closed the browser, opened it again, marked everyone to Follow, logged out, logged back in, set a few friends to Not Follow, hopped on one foot, and some part of that combination made it work. Thanks!
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This is strange - a new plurk from one of the people I "unfollowed" showed up in my timeline just now, but it's the ONLY plurk from this person that I can see.
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Inappropriate?I'm impressed at the responsiveness from plurk. Another plus of plurk over twitter.
Keep up the good work
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?I'm still having people I've turned "off" coming up on my timeline. :-(
I’m confused, sad, and frustrated.
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Inappropriate?The plurks you are seeing, are they private? (Private plurks have a little lock on them). The thing is this: Friends can private plurk you and you will see these Plurks, even if you don't follow them.
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Inappropriate?No, they're not private plurks. I went back and had a close look at the people that should not be showing up on my timeline. The strange thing is, it doesn't seem to be ALL of their plurks, just some. I'll keep an eye on it in the next day or so and stop back with another report.
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Inappropriate?No Amir, they are public plurks.
Last night at~ 8ish pacific time I turn on, then off timeline follow for a few people then logged out then back in. So now my timeline looks like what Rebecca descibed in the comment above; there are comments from these people AFTER 8ish, but not before.
I’m annoyed
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Inappropriate?I'm still getting them too, I know several people are. It was really discussed last night when several people (including myself) were getting the same message repeatedly from one plurker, and unfollowing their plurks (in case they weren't trying to spam but having a bug problem somewhere) didn't work.
Right now, the only way I can not get someone's plurks is to unfriend them, as much as I hate to do it.
I’m disappointed, I love the idea of this feature.
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Inappropriate?I'm having the same problem. There are a couple people on my friends list that post an ungodly amount of plurks that bear no use to myself. I'm at the point where I'm ready to remove them and just keep them as fans because of this issue.
I’m aggrivated
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Inappropriate?I"m havignthe same probelm-- sory I didn't see this thread before.
I'm still having people I've turned "off" coming up on my timeline. :-(
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?This is still happeneing. In fact, there was one I wished not ot 'follow' and that person has just re-appeared on my timeline!
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I finally deleted the person that I didn't want to follow. It's great that many people have time to plurk all day long, but when you are getting really annoying plurks half the time about topics you really don't care to discuss, it's frustrating when you can't turn their following off. I don't have much patience for immaturity and that's what I was stuck looking at.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I, too, am still having this problem. lekdawg25 is a friend who I don't follow. I have tried following, then unfollowing him (but have not unfriended him, due to the hit in karma I'd get). Nothing works. This has been going on for about 2 weeks now. A sample of a plurk that shows up in my timeline of his is http://www.plurk.com/p/15gmo .
Ideas?
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?To those still having issues: Try to follow the person and then unfollow. (If you tried this before, then redo it as we have fixed some bugs :)).
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Inappropriate?Sorry, no, that didn't work; followed then unfollowed and plurks are still showing up in timeline. Grrr!
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?i concur this did not solve the problem. i am still following a friend that I do not want to follow.
I’m so sad
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Inappropriate?I also just tried this -- it is not working. Do I need to follow, then wait for an hour/a day or something, and then unfollow? I've tried giving it 10, 30, 60, and 120 second waits between following, then unfollowing.
In fact, I just added a new friend I'm not following, and it's still showing up.
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?I can't reproduce this bug on my local setup :-(
Do you unfollow a person from "My friends" or from their profile page?
Does the interface show that you have unfollowed a person (the red "follow button" should turn to blue).1 Comment Add a comment
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It does show that the person is unfollowed on their page when I go to shut off their timeline. it then changes to ask if I want to follow their timeline.
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Inappropriate?amir: yes i do the unfollow from the "my friends" section off of my own profile. and yes it will show that i have unfollowed the person with the red "off" icon
not sure what you mean about the red turning to blue - if i go to that persons page it will show "follow username plurks" in blue
i can give you my login to play with?
I am using an xp machine with firefox 3 not sure if that helps you
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Inappropriate?It's still not working for me.
Amir, I unfollow the person from "My Friends", and I don't ever see the "Follow Timeline" button turn blue. It's only ever green/on or red/off.
As Breanne mentioned, I can go to the person's plurk page and their dashboard indicates that he/she is my friend but I'm not following.
Also on XP, FF3.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Amir, I've unfollowed both from My Friends and from their pages and still have the same issue. I unfollowed someone for the first time this morning and am still receiving their messages.
When I unfollow from their page, it does show that I've unfollowed (the red turns blue)...and still shows when I go back to their page later after receiving the messages.
When I unfollow from "My Friends" I have noticed that if I go to another page of the list and go back, that it no longer shows I've unfollowed that person. I have to unfollow them and close the My Friends box on that page for it to show up, but I still receive messages from them.
Another thing I've noticed is that it is sporatic. I don't receive *every* message they send, so it works somewhat, but I still receive perhaps 1 out of 5 messages from them. Don't know if that helps any, but thought it was interesting.
I’m frustrated that it's not working but glad you're working on it.
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Inappropriate?Hi Amir, I'm trying this from the person's page/timeline directly, not from "My Friends." Teeg's comments are exactly what's up with me as well. I recommend looking at the link I provided above. That individual continues to *only sporadically* show up on my timeline. If I follow that person, I get all of their posts. If I unfollow them, the "sticky" ones remain (about 1 in 10 or so).
Hope this helps...
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