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GeekMommy asked a question in Twitter on February 16, 2009 03:46:

Can't follow @BreaGrant (only) but not blocked by her

Is there an issue with @BreaGrant's twitterstream? It won't let me follow her even though she's following me and I can follow other peoples' accounts with no issue, but trying to follow her isn't working.

GeekMommy started following the discussion "Pagination, Timeline and Archive Fixes" in Twitter.

GeekMommy replied on November 12, 2008 07:42 to the question "My Twitter archives before July 08 has disappeared" in Twitter:

I noticed this awhile ago - but I don't think it's a numerical limit - it seems to be date oriented above a certain number - because mine go back that far too.

GeekMommy started following the question "My Twitter archives before July 08 has disappeared" in Twitter.

A comment on the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is back, it is back! Thank you Twitter powers that be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Much love and kudos to the programmers and whomever for bringing it back!! :) And thanks for pointing it out @mdy!!! – GeekMommy, on October 31, 2008 00:58

GeekMommy marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!".

A comment on the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!" in Twitter:

Thanks Mark - but what a pain in the a** that we have to go track down the user # and manually block - they need to just put the block link back. Once again tho, this is just going unresponded to. – GeekMommy, on October 30, 2008 16:30

GeekMommy marked one of Mark Douglass' replies in Twitter as useful. Mark Douglass replied to the problem "Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!". GeekMommy and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

GeekMommy replied on October 24, 2008 06:52 to the problem "Where is the block user link" in Twitter:

I just started a different thread about this - b/c when they moved the block link - it removed it from people not already following you.
Leaving nasty loophole.

GeekMommy reported a problem in Twitter on October 24, 2008 06:50:

Block moved - also removed from non-followers - leaves loophole!!

So now that you've moved the block function, we apparently can't block someone if they aren't following us any more - meaning that we can't pre-emptively block spammers or creeps? Why?

Were you considering the fact that it leaves a nice loophole? If I really want to bug someone, I could just keep following and unfollowing them over and over and they couldn't block me unless they could catch me at it during that follow period.

Seriously guys, what's up with that??

A comment on the idea "Eliminate Karma." in Plurk:

You know - the reason I seldom use Plurk over Twitter, Rejaw, Indenti.ca and Pownce is the karma function.
Because I'm a little too old to appreciate getting 'graded' for class participation.
In the end, I kind of regret ever signing up - because at one point, my 'karma' (horrible name btw) was 47, but now it's 0.0 - and I come back and think "yeah, I'm not going to 're-prove' myself every time I want to come over here and interact with my friends."

There's a real difference between "I don't care much about my karma" and "I find the whole idea offensive".

But hey, apparently, some folks don't mind. But I think I'll stick to social platforms where I don't get graded. – GeekMommy, on September 08, 2008 18:16

Greg Fowler's reply to "Eliminate Karma." was just promoted to the most useful! GeekMommy and 6 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Amir: you disrespect your users who think there's a serious problem with karma by posting such a flippant response after ignoring this issue for far too long.

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A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

guys? have you put in an actual service request to twitter itself? http://twitter.com/help/ there's "general twitter issues" then there's "specific to my account twitter issues" - if you are w/in limits and it's not working? I'd guess it's specific to your account and you need to put an actual support request in. HTH. – GeekMommy, on September 06, 2008 05:37

A comment on the question "What happens if I hit a Twitter limit?" in Twitter:

guys? have you put in an actual service request to twitter itself? http://twitter.com/help/ there's "general twitter issues" then there's "specific to my account twitter issues" - if you are w/in limits and it's not working? I'd guess it's specific to your account and you need to put an actual support request in. HTH. – GeekMommy, on September 06, 2008 05:37

GeekMommy marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the question "Direct messaging is not working".

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

Actually, Kee, in this case it would - because the spam isn't spoofed headers, it's a spam account, created manually with the user signin process. So yes, you could ban the IP - because a) that would stop them from using that IP to sign up accounts, b) if they are using a compromised machine to manually register, the owner of that machine would be blocked unless he/she requested to be unblocked, in which case the answer is "secure your frickin' machine first" and c) the particular folks we're talking about here aren't exactly internet savvy - as they are simply initiating the account the same way time and again manually - if they had automated it or scripted it somehow, they'd be able to generate many more than the 3 dozen a day they manage to come up with.
So yeah, different form of spam and IP banning would impact the situation. – GeekMommy, on August 21, 2008 19:30

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

Easy - ban the IPs that the lame spam accounts are registering from wholesale. If someone comes and complains because they're DHCP? You inform ISP of the abuse and unblock them only if they do something about it. – GeekMommy, on August 21, 2008 07:02

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

Can't we just automatically count any profile that puts the6figureteam.com in it's url as spam? Seriously - I blocked over 2 dozen of those yesterday alone... this is annoying:
http://tinyurl.com/5cklaz how many accounts do they have to spam with before their IPs are banned? – GeekMommy, on August 21, 2008 06:39

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