Turned off the likes button after collecting too many likes from spammers/scammers or whatever they are.
WordPress does not seem to offer any way to mark these as spam/report them/block them, etc.
It’s been going on for a long time:
Nov 2, 2012
Jul 22, 2013
“+1 for the suggestion to have the ability to moderate likes.”
Jun 19, 2018
Another issue:
Reblog button has disappeared from blogs
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