CottonJones
Gav: I and many poets are losing followers, I've lost nearly 2,000 in one week, other proportionally more. I wrote a Wattpad ticket on the subject and have heard nothing in return. What's going on, why this sudden siphoning off of followers? Any word on the subject would be better than nothing. Lpf, Olan.
TheOrangutan
@CottonJones - Not to my knowledge, no. If you happen to pass away then according to that help page, your profile will remain as it has content on it. Only the blank profiles appear to be being removed. And removal of those unused profiles would explain why follower numbers have dropped. As for why your friend Gail is no longer following you several times, that one I can't explain, and that sounds like a glitch to me and I'd suggest reporting it in to Wattpad's Support team via the Help pages. As for your last question, as far as I'm aware, there are no plans to remove profiles that have content on them, that's something stated in that article. I can't really say more than that I'm afraid as the future is an unknown.
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CottonJones
@TheOrangutan So, if I die my poetry eventually is deleted? Unless all this happened within the last week it doesn't explain to me the sudden drop of thousands of my followers. For example Gail Runschke has found that she is no longer following me several times and it is not an action she has made. She refollows me and then awhile later she finds out she is no longer following me. Is this a new policy? I understand dead accounts, but don't understand poets I know finding they no longer follow me. Thanks for the link to the site it helps a bit but I'm not happy that every morning when I wake up another 500 plus people are no longer following me. Is there way to make sure my poetry enshrined as a memorial after my death?
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TheOrangutan
@CottonJones - Hi Olan, There's an article here on the Help pages that may explain the issue - https://support.wattpad.com/hc/en-us/articles/32301286166804-Closing-accounts-of-inactive-users - and I'm losing followers too. So, I suspect it's the inactive / dormant users being removed that is affecting follower count, and for those of us who've been around for a fair few years we're probably seeing older accounts being removed. Hope that helps a little. Cheers, Gav
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