Hi Pradip
The summaries of this post are in relation to your specific question
- You cannot control who follows you but have choice in who you follow
- It is open who can see those following you but others might follow you by regularly searching your activity stream (not secured as they can go straight to the URL).
- If someone follows you it can be a sign of respect and a compliment as to the quality of your contributions (there are badges/awards based on community influence which is partly based on who many followers you have)
- If a person following you is showing stalking behaviour or making you feel uncomfortable then you are encouraged to contact SCN support via email and tell them what is happening. A global moderator will investigate the accusation and take action with the person if deemed necessary. If they are doing something against community rules they will be warned and account deactivated.
- The people who follow you may be passive in the community as they are learning from you. In turn, I would assume you follow others for same reason. Over time, those passive members may actually gain knowledge and confidence to pay it back and become active. Without realising, you may unknowingly contribute to community improvements by assisting such members. Again, another compliment if you choose to see the benefits. Someone following you is a sign of respect.
Based on your comments in this thread, are you are implying that anyone who does not follow you is welcome to answer your questions but anyone who does should answer your questions or they are not worthy of following you? If you don't mean this please read through your posts and reflect so you can see how many of us have drawn that conclusion.
I am unsure if you are referring only to a specific person or in general. If someone else followed you would you be just as frustrated? If it's a specific person then it goes back to my 4th point.
In relation to some of your comments above - it seems you are getting frustrated at people taking the time to trying to help you (or you don't think they are helping as you have not received the answer you want: how to stop someone following you).
From the time I am posting in this forum , hardly i can post though ...
most of my posts gets blocked by the people here ->> who according to Matt follows the space I post
. lol
This statement is off topic to your question and any advise given. You have participated enough SCN About/Support/Coffee Corner/other posts relating to "why my post got blocked" where members have come in and provided answers as to why content is blocked.
Really, it's all come back to you disagree with the reasons. The reason you make mentions "most of the people here" is because a lot of us dedicate a lot of our free time to maintain the quality of SCN. W
Cheers for such a "GREAT" site (coughing out loud).
Writing "GREAT" as capital in quotations and adding a coughing comment implies sarcasm. If that's not what you mean then again I recommend you reflect on how you are wording your responses.
If you are trying to convey the tone of sarcasm then what an insult to the people in the community who are trying to help you. What an insult to the people who having helped solve your problem.
GOD bless you so that you can all secure your jobs more firmly from intruders by denying knowledge share & wish GOD blesses me a little more so that I can secure myself a job .
I'm actually stumped on this one as to what you mean by this statement. It has an attacking tone and more sarcasm (again what that your intention?). Are you implying
- Regular Members protect their job opportunities by interrupting and preventing sharing of information to those who are new to SAP and trying to learn?
- You are missing out on a job opportunities believe the some fault lies with the community as you can't get your questions answered and refuse to comply to the rules?
If you believe the first case to be true then all the regulars you refer to would not provide any answers or directions to the community. Our activity streams would remain empty and they only thing we'd do is press the alert moderator button (after all we are protecting our jobs). You would not see the detailed comments, documents or blogs that we produce.
If your believe in the second, I think the bigger issue you have in the job market is not your aptitude but your attitude of entitlement. Where are you taking any personal responsibility for your actions? This community - all spaces - will provide you the assistance and time if you follow SCN rules and do your best to research first, trial and error and explain to the community what you have attempted; what hasn't worked for you; where you are at and what assistance you need as oppose to "send me step by step instructions" which are typically found on help.sap (no idea if that's why your post is rejected but lot of them are for that reason)
Is your next move to now accuse me and others here of arrogance and rudeness?
Regards
Colleen
P.S the answer to your question is to be professional and directly contact them via a private message. Whilst someone follows you, you can follow them in return and then send direct messages. You could explain to them you don't feel comfortable/whatever reason and politely ask them to stop and give your reasons. You never know you might get an interesting response from them that changes your point of view. Of course, if their behaviors if bad the contact SCN support.