blocking followers

Discus and support blocking followers in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; I have been blocking followers since the xbox one console came out I have several xbox one consoles that all respond the same way when someone adds me... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by PleaseXplain, Oct 25, 2015.

  1. PleaseXplain
    PleaseXplain Guest

    blocking followers


    I have been blocking followers since the xbox one console came out I have several xbox one consoles that all respond the same way when someone adds me as a friend it shows up saying that person is a follower,now at this point they are not my friend unless
    I physically add them as a friend and they would remain in my followers list as a follower, on their end however it would show up that im their friend even though I have not added them as a friend and they are still showing up as a follower in my followers
    list,now If wanted to clear up my followers list all I would have to do was to click on that followers profile and click block follower this would cause that follower to be removed from from my followers list and you can not see them there any more,even when
    someone else was to view my profile it would show up that my friends list is zero and my followers list was zero assuming I had no friends to start with,now for some reason some xbox live support representives seems to think that you cant remove a follower
    from your followers list on your console while others do ,so there seems to be some level of confusion amongst themselves on this issue same goes for Microsoft support,finding someone who actually knows that you can remove a follower from your followers list
    can be difficult.my problems arose when I tried to remove a follower who added me but remained in my followers list, after trying every way I knew on how to solve this myself I was forced to seek help from xbox live customer support,thinking that a simple
    phone call would solve the issue but just finding someone who knew that you can remove a follower let alone trying to remove a follower that you cant remove took about 6 months,and finally was directed here,after finding a mr Beep who was very helpful thanks
    buy the way was able to have the escalation team remove the followers,but as soon they were removed they just added themselves again with different gamertags,now after asking them to leave which I knew was pointless because its not but accident that they
    are there and they have no intention of leaving,so asking for a new set of followers to be removed this time buy a Microsoft rep who informed me 75 hours and they would be gone 75 hours came and went and in the mean time im getting more followers who cant
    be removed,having no reply from xbox support,i threw some rather colourful language at these followers only to find my self with a communications ban,after explaining to the escalation team why I swore at these followers,my explanation had nothing to do with
    wanting their decision reversed I was amazed at after viewing their decision to uphold my ban I noticed that they had failed to grasp the fact that I was not just being abusive to someone who randomly added me and shocked buy my language left and then reported
    me but the follower who reported me are still on my followers list,and their being allowed to stay, does xbl have a different set of privacy laws for certain followers,also does any body know if a communications ban can be extended to include other people
    from communicating you because even with every privacy setting set to block and that's not just from my console but from every where ,people can still add me send messages chat and game invites even after their blocked,i want a communications ban that swings
    both ways,then it might stop these people from monitoring this site and coming up with new ways to remain as human malware

    :)
     
    PleaseXplain, Oct 25, 2015
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  2. Daft Badger
    Daft Badger Guest
    How do I stop certain gamers from following me?

    Unfortunately blocking them is the only way to get them of your followers list.
     
    Daft Badger, Oct 25, 2015
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  3. TurnerWolf
    TurnerWolf Guest
    Buggy followers list, activity feed & new followers notifications not popping up.

    My followers list is being dodgy it goes up then down, recent followers don't show up, blocking doesn't stop them from following me (Note: SmartGlass & website are doing the same thing).

    Activity feed & new followers are not popping up (they are both on).
     
    TurnerWolf, Oct 25, 2015
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  4. blocking followers

    hey PARTYBOY incorp im replying to this thread because I have the exact same problem except without the communications ban I still have a follower I cant get rid of, im glad I dident have to go through what you did because you did it for me thanks dad hope
    they fix it soon
     
    HITMAN DEADEYE, Oct 26, 2015
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  5. SHADOWBGONE
    SHADOWBGONE Guest
    OMG!!! I just got done chatting with a support person who knows nothing about his job. For over an hour I tried to explain that yes this follower is BLOCKED and no he is not and has never been on my friends list. I told this moron that if he is showing as
    a follower to me that means I'm on his friends list. You are right getting to talk to somebody that can fix this is almost impossible. I tried to get Hervin to turn this problem into the geeks so they could fix it and this jerk off said they couldn't fix
    it and that I would have to do it myself by blocking the follower. So I guess that I will start making phone calls and start working my way up their miserable food chain. Starting at the bottom and working my way up the brown tube until they just won't pass
    me on up any further. Hopefully by the end of the day I hope that at least I feel better. Because at the end of it all we all know that XBL just doesn't care.
     
    SHADOWBGONE, Oct 31, 2018
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  6. HITMAN DEADEYE Win User

    blocking followers

    hey PARTYBOY incorp im replying to this thread because I have the exact same problem except without the communications ban I still have a follower I cant get rid of, im glad I dident have to go through what you did because you did it for me thanks dad hope
    they fix it soon
  7. SHADOWBGONE Win User

    blocking followers

    OMG!!! I just got done chatting with a support person who knows nothing about his job. For over an hour I tried to explain that yes this follower is BLOCKED and no he is not and has never been on my friends list. I told this moron that if he is showing as
    a follower to me that means I'm on his friends list. You are right getting to talk to somebody that can fix this is almost impossible. I tried to get Hervin to turn this problem into the geeks so they could fix it and this jerk off said they couldn't fix
    it and that I would have to do it myself by blocking the follower. So I guess that I will start making phone calls and start working my way up their miserable food chain. Starting at the bottom and working my way up the brown tube until they just won't pass
    me on up any further. Hopefully by the end of the day I hope that at least I feel better. Because at the end of it all we all know that XBL just doesn't care.
  8. Daniel Gill_354 Win User

    Cannot Block Follower

    Hi Gyla1! I hope you are well, delighted to be able to offer you my help!

    This method is not always 100% effective, sometimes it can help remove unwanted followers.

    Unfollow the ghost account that is causing the problem. This can help reset your friends list and remove unwanted followers.

    Check your privacy settings to make sure your friends list is set to "Friends Only" or "Private." This can prevent unwanted followers from being added to your friends list.

    Those are the recommendations I can give you personally.

    Best regards,
    Daniel.
  9. JUST DO IT415 Win User

    Unable to remove/block a follower.

    I think the block/mute is all you can do at this point.
  10. AngelObullets Win User

    Unable to remove/block a follower.

    Hi there FOA Anguish

    Normally blocking and muting them stops them from seeing if you are online and messaging yourself and seeing your feed items. Even if they are following you they shouldn't be able to contact you as you can see here as well. https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/social/manage-friends-followers-favorites It
    shouldn't matter if they are on your follower list. The only way they are removed from that list if they remove you but by blocking them they cannot message you or see your feed.
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