solved 'Follow action' - apparently not instigated by the 'follower'.

lornawebber
@lornawebber
7 years ago
334 posts
I reported an anomaly of this kind some time ago; https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/forum/using-jamroom/35336/users-recorded-as-following-a-profile-but-they-have-not-followed/search_string=followers

I've just had a report by one of our users: She has just received a notification that she followed user Thomas, at a time when she was not on the site. She says she did follow Thomas, but it was a long time ago and she has concluded that someone is using her account (which I think is highly unlikely).

I looked at the followers list for Thomas, and the reporting member is there, but four pages down. It is my understanding that followers are listed in order of latest first - is that correct?

I have looked at some other more recent followers and many have no other action on site, except for following this same user Thomas in the last couple of hours.

I checked the mailgun to see how many 'follower' emails were generated for Thomas. As in the last case I reported, the followed user has all notifications turned off. I will send a private email to him asking when/if he turned off his notifications (nothing showing in the activity log). I can see he responded to comments 5 days ago, so I imagine its a recent thing.

Any ideas as to what might be happening here? Is it a delay in sending notifications, or re-sending them for some reason? Is anyone else seeing this?

updated by @lornawebber: 07/14/17 11:40:11PM
brian
@brian
7 years ago
10,148 posts
This certainly could be a delayed email - I've seen it happen before, but usually not on the timeframe of "months". As an example, I recently received 2 notifications from my daughters school that she had missed 2 classes (we were out of town at the time) - these were delivered ~ 8 days late, so I know that email can be buffered on a system, so while that could be the cause I am not sure.


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lornawebber
@lornawebber
7 years ago
334 posts
Roy has pointed out that Thomas 'approves' followers, so perhaps he approved a bunch in one go. Thanks for looking though. If I get a response from this chap Thomas, I'll update this post.
brian
@brian
7 years ago
10,148 posts
That would explain it - since the email is not sent out until the approval actually occurs.

Thanks!


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Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
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