While I agree that "following" was creepy, and I have added the custom CSS to turn it off (thanks)---I DO wish there was a way that as ADMIN I could follow certain posters.

"Following" had an administrative function too: A member of our Board was following me (the paid-admin) to keep track of what I was posting so she could report to the board that I was worth the BIG BUCK$    Now I will have to prove it otherwise. 

Hi Neil-

Remember that you can set a content moderation rule to be notified about new posts by specific users, too. You can have set it so that the posts are still live (not held up in the mod queue). That might be a good option for you for now.

No, too much stuff in moderation. It would clutter it up. (Neil is a heavy poster). 

How about changing the terminology to something less creepy. Does FB have a monopoly on "friends?" Could call us "fans." (Though "fanning someone" sounds weird.)

-- Carol

re: heavy poster...

Let's keep my weight out of it.

How about "stalker" 

LOL. I meant you post a lot! 

If there was a way for users/members to decide for themselves whether or not they would allow followers, that would solve everyone's problem.

allow followers [click here]

or some such, on their profile settings.

Hi MyLove-

Yes, there is already a suggestion for that here:

https://hey.crowdstack.com/s...people-to-follow-you

This tip was just for people who might want to hide the Follow Member links entirely in the meantime.

I saw it last week, commented, and voted. I was just participating in the conversation here as well LOL

As an Admin, the follow feature IS a useful tool - for us as administrators, and for users who would like to be "in the know" with regard to Admin posts.

We had to hide it, because of the nature of our forum, combined with user complaints, but I still hold out hope that we won't have to resort to these lengths in the future!

FYI-- 

You'll be pleased to hear that we just added support for disabling user following for everyone but admins in today's software update.

Details here:

https://hey.crowdstack.com/b...otal-control-release