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I try to give the most grace possible. I've only ever blocked two users here. That said, I'd totally understand why someone might block me.

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[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I don't block, I label them with a tag, usually 'asswipe'.

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A guy commented a screenshot of me with a tag like that. "Toxic do not interact". I do act toxic in the shitpost community lmao so, fair. I'm real good in serious communities though.

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The left lemmy vibe is very-much bipolar.

You could post identical comments 10 minutes apart and one could be downvoted to oblivion whilst the other is top comment.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Might be the unironic usage of "whilst"? 😅😶

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

the tankies are the problems, they behave too similar like conservatives.

[–] cheeseburger@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do that too, but also if you enable tracking votes (I'm using Voyager) then you basically are tasking positive and negative encounters and you get an idea what a thread will be like just by looking. Example, you and OP appear to be nice peeps:

[–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Never knew about the tracking option; I'm piqued.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Tankie and Energy Vampire are my two go to tags. I only block spammers or anything horrific like the couple times some assholes did CSAM attacks.

Yup, once I figured out I could tag users I started doing that instead. Much better to be prepared than to just choose blindness.

Generally I'm a bit more specific though.