I have been experiencing a lot of consternation lately about this following thing on Blogger. Not that I don't want to follow and have my little avatar on other people's blogs and stuff. That's not the problem. I already subscribe to a lot of blogs through Google reader. When the following thing came out, I didn't realize it would show me posts in my reader, from all the blogs I started following. If I chose to follow a blog I was already subscribed to - I was getting duel posts, every time. Made me crazy.
I could not figure out for the life of me, how not to get those double posts. I looked all over my Blogger settings to no avail. I ended up choosing to either follow somebody - or to subscribe, but not both. I was annoyed by the way the 'following' blogs were separated out at the bottom, but at least I wasn't getting double posts anymore.
So if somebody started to follow my blog, and I wanted to follow theirs, most likely I was already subscribed. So I would follow, and UNsubscribe.
I'm an idiot.
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Ohhhhh Thank you Thank you BetteJo!!! I had the very same problem and didn't even think to look for a way round this, just put up with them at the bottom of my reader!
ReplyDeleteSee you were NOT the last to know, I was!!!!
You and me both. I do exactly what you do. If the Google Blogger follows me and I follow them, that's fine. But those who aren't on Blogger, I subscribe in my reader instead.
ReplyDeleteI suspect Google came up with the following thing partly as a social networking method but also as a very simple reader.
Lady B I'm glad I was able to help! And I ran across the setting completely by accident too!
ReplyDeleteI think the 'show followed blogs in reader' option should have been attached to the following widget. That seems more logical to me.