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I'm not gonna just willy nilly block people... already too low userbase, I kinda wanna just see the drama
Like even that user asking weird age gap questions is part of the entertainment lol
But if they start being overtly toxic... yea I'm just gonna block and ignore
Originally I didn't like blocking people or communities at all but I've realised the lemmy experience is dramatically improved by blocking idiots.
The thing is lemmy is a relatively small community. If some nutter posts and comments every day they can really shape your impression of the place.
Some users have very little life experience, and depth of understanding, and are just fixated on some single issue. I'm not here to argue with that type of user.
Yesterday I blocked a community just because the single mod didn't understand the problems caused by editorialising titles when posting articles.
Editorializing articles? Name and shame.
The reality of what's going on provides enough to legitimately complain about. Making up headlines is just cheap outrage farming and undermines any credibility.
If you feel the title is misleading then you can absolutely complain about that in the comments.
Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.
Hell yeah
I have not really had to block til recently. Esp attention seekers who have just joined and are posting immature crap.
I would say i have blocked at least 5 in the last 2 weeks.
Life is too short to deal with assholes and bots. They get blocked very quickly.
When I made this account, I went through the communities and blocked a lot of them. All sports, foreign languages, anime, and furries. All the content I know that I have no interest in.
Yeah I block communities pretty frequently because I sort by new. Usually porn.
I don't block, I label them with a tag, usually 'asswipe'.
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.
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.
the tankies are the problems, they behave too similar like conservatives.
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:
Never knew about the tracking option; I'm piqued.
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.
I'm very quick to block. Much faster to do so than I was on Reddit. I think the reason is because there's so much less content on Lemmy that I sort by new instead of "hot". That means I see content that would normally have been downvoted out of sight on Reddit. I'm tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt just to see the same terrible shit from them again later on. Now I just block.
ive blocked some users who posted the same crap 7 times a day, and the one who uses that weird character to replace every "th"
Im fairly quick to block, especially if the person is clearly acting with bad intent. Id rather have slow and steady high quality content than mediocre garbage every few seconds. Social media does not consume my life and I lived in the era of forums. I am used to waiting for good content.
I only block for one reason: egregious crossposting. Don’t post the same thing in four communities.
Isn’t that the point of cross posting in the first place, to share a cross multiple communities?
I'm lightning fast the moment I realize someone is only looking to either
For the rest I don't block individuals, nor instances (I can have issue with people, but I don't want to condemn the entire population of their instance).
The only person I've (reported and) blocked was posting csam.
Fucking YIKES
I think that all of the people I've blocked for a reason that I can recall have been users who were repeatedly spamming comments in threads to try to make them unreadable for other users. One was just commenting over and over with a couple of giant inline Simpsons images.
My block list is around 100 users. Most are chronic NSFW posters polluting my All feed. The rest are either just annoying, spammers, or trolls.
got a mile long blocklist of comms but never block a user account unless the display name is obnoxiously long or full of emojis
I'm very happy to block communities, much less so to block an individual. They've got to be consistently spammy for me to get annoyed enough to block.
tankies one i will almost always block if i see thier comment, its never a good comment(its almost whining about the "not far left". only .ml i give benefit of a doubt, due,apparently alot of them have an .ml as a solely techy account and not a political one.
Mostly block people that I think are taking up too much space on my feed
Blocked
If it's gross porn or AI slop, instant block. For comments it's only if we get like a dozen replies into an argument and I stop assuming they're able to read
Do it sparsingly, if you don't want to create your own little echo chamber.
I do it mostly for bots/shills i've reported.
I only block people who consistently post things I don't want to see or people who spam post the same thing eleventy billion times in different communities.
Personally I've thought about blocking you and violet for the horny posting but it's amusing enough that I haven't yet.
I've only blocked a few people, but I'm quick to tag people as assholes/MAGA
I never do unless they are a clear scam/troll account. No matter how much i disagree with their opinions, i still want to see it and engage with them, for fear of being the architect of my own echo chamber
I block the moment I get a hint someone is responding to me in a snarkily asshole way.
I don't mind engagement, but I value my patience and sanity. I don't have all of the time in the world to be in constant word-jousting matches with a no-life.
So far I've only had to block a few people whose behavior made me concerned for their mental health. Otherwise this place doesn't really have enough activity for people to "get away" with harassing others, so it's not much of a concern.
I never tried to block anyone because I have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to strangers on the internet. Well, except that guy that replaced all his "th"s with "þ". That was annoying and if he didn't give up on it, get banned, or otherwise disappear I might have learned how to block someone.
Only the clear trolls. Can't see their stuff to downvote if I block them.
I block the entire furry instance
I'm at 21 users blocked. Seven of them have also been banned, apparently since I blocked them.
I have no doubt I appear on some users' block lists too.
I've blocked many more communities. Mostly foreign language, plus subjects I have zero interest in, like guns or baking. I've blocked a few new communities simply for spamming posts when they start, which is annoying. New mods should be aware of this, don't spam a bunch of posts when you start just to fill the front page, go slowly, wait a quarter or half an hour between posts. Or, maybe that's just me.
I've only ever had to block spammers on any Lemmy-like platform. Users tend to be cool and I try to give people grace for being awkward and weird because... I'm awkward and weird.
