Do you have a criteria for what qualifies as block-worthy offence or are you just doing it when you feel like it?
Bonus question: how long is your block list?
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I don’t block many people except for certain circumstances.
Somethings I might block people for specifically may include:
How kindly they vocally talk about minority people.
Do they they post about certain embarassing things.
Do they post illegal images or content?
Therew others so the reasons are not exclusive to this.
I’m happy to block people. I don’t owe anybody my time or energy, if they’re tedious and annoying in situation a, they probably will be in B as well.
Its the internet, I just dont care. I’m going to make my experience tolerable and if I can’t I’ll leave. 🤷♂️
I agree. I could block 90% of the people online and there would still be an endless feed of new content to pay attention to. I don’t miss anything by blocking users that I wouldn’t be missing either way.
Being annoying (so, hexbear, mostly), and posting dicks. Tbh I’m not even mad at the dickposters, I just don’t wanna see it.
My block list on here is only that stupid media bias rating bot so far. If this place gets like reddit with a dozen idiotic bots butting into every conversation while adding nothing of value, they’ll get blocked as well.
Speaking more generally, I block my abusive ex on everything.
Hexbear users mostly. About 20 of them harrased me because I said South Park is funny. One guy was even using an alt to insult me on all of my unrelated comments. That was my introduction to Hexbear lol.
Hey be nice to them, that’s actually written in chapter 420 of Das Kapital, “Thou shalt save the world by being dicks online”
They keep debating and polluting my inbox when I said I won’t reply anymore.
I’m blocking a couple of bots but no actual people.
Though I guess I would block someone if they were being persistently trying to harass me. I can take offensive internet behavior, but not if you’re coming after me as a person.I would rather block every shitty post or comment I see. So based on post and not person.
It’s for the church baby, blocked!
I once blocked someone who gave me unsolicited advice on how to cook a chicken.
I like to put some soy sauce and lemon juice on mine and let them sit for a while after frying
Looks like you’re bok bok blocked 😎
I haven’t yet blocked anyone.
My opinions are formed by choosing the things that survive the gauntlet of disagreement, so that’s one “reason” down. And I haven’t yet encountered anyone who has any other way of hurting me with words, so I haven’t needed to block anyone.
I guess there’s mentioning poop while I’m eating, but those people tend to be family and I can’t block them.
You can block people? Well that changes things.
Heads up, Lemmy’s block system is more like muting. I wouldn’t really recommend it’s use non-discriminately. This is because blocking simply hides users it doesn’t prevent interaction on posts or comments, it doesn’t deal with them if they are actually problematic users.
So if you see people being trolls, harassing others, or making bad faith arguments I highly recommend reporting them, as it can be helpful to alert admins and moderators of bad people and take care of them.
I see, so if I don’t want to see a users posts and I block them, I won’t see them, but everyone else will? I mean in a thread we are both contributing to?
That seems to be the case for me. My app (connect) won’t let me interact with those users but IIRC on web I can (don’t take my word though its been a while.)
I don’t on Lemmy because it doesn’t really do anything besides hiding their posts. On Mastodon I block people who are AI trolls, political trolls, reactionaries, and in general people who are hostile. People who are objectively horrible people, sometimes it’s because I see them doing it, but other times because they lashed out directly at me. Most blocks on Mastodon are preceded by reports to server admins but I still block them because it usually takes time for people to be moderated.
it doesn’t really do anything besides hiding their posts.
That’s what I need it to do. Out of my sight. Doesn’t matter if they can still see my posts. I hope they write me a lot of long and nasty messages that I never see.
You don’t find it limiting you can only talk to people who fit your understanding of acceptable conversation?
I’m open to talk with anyone. It’s only after they demonstrate their uncivility that I block them.
Have you considered though that people are only a certain way for that bit of time. Essentially, they could be rude one day a year, and you got them on that day. Is it worth blocking the rest of it? What’s the cutoff?
Oh absolutely. A huge number of the people I’ve blocked are probably perfectly decent people and I just happened to notice them write that one snide response.
However, I’ve quite often seen blocked people commenting to me and I’ve logged out to read the comment and I’d say about 50% of the time it has been a mean comment only proving that I blocked them for a good reason. I also sometimes go thru the modlog and a huge number of the the users I see there I have already blocked.
I agree with your point though. You’re right, I just don’t care. There’s so many people here that when I block someone there’s another to take their place. There’s just too much to pay attention to.
I haven’t blocked anyone individually, but I found blocking hexbear and lemmygrad made an immediate vast improvement.
Is kemmygrad a problem? I’ve had my fair share of reasons to block hexbear
I usually tag problematic users (usually those who constantly discuss in bad faith, are needlessly hostile or rude towards other users, or push dis/misinformation and propaganda) so I know who are repeat offenders with consistent bad behaviour, but I rarely block people unless it’s very clear that they have no interest in participating in good faith or are so irritating that I can’t deal with them anymore. A lot of problematic users still have valuable things to say and I’d rather not make my feed an echo chamber, even if those people often piss me off with their nonsense. But with some of them it sure is tempting.
