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.
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.
I do recall blocking the thorn guy from my previous account. So that’s a downside to establishing a new Lemmy account. All the users I’d blocked are now roaming freely in my feed again.
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
Fair
I mod several communities so I never block people, because I want to see their posts and comments
Apparently, I block to curate a better-than-the-other-place experience, if the 200+ users, 100+ communities, and couple dozen instances I’ve blocked over the last 2+ yrs are any sign.
Mostly asshats & bots, and a zero-tolerance for hexbear, blahaj, ani/midwest/etc.social, feddit, yiffit, et al., but I’m open to suggestions, as well. 😂
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 only really blocked power users on reddit and lemmy doesn’t have those yet. Not the same way gallowboob was.
I feel like accounts like PugJesus, PicardManeuver, and LadyButterfly are doing a pretty hefty chunk of Lemmy posts. I don’t dislike any of them (I like how PJ adds little contextual informative notes to their memes and whatnot, Butterfly seems to provide a lot of positivity), but I did add little colored tags to their accounts to help me realize just how many posts were theirs. I don’t know how they manage to stay motivated to keep doing all that posting
luckily lemmy is too small for that, and it somewhat smaller now, since the last big instance went down.
The culture of lemmy is very anti consumer, which helps to insulate it from that. If the normies started moving in, that’s when the problems start.
Idk what a power user even is
they usually post a ton, on multiple subs at once. think of a like a power-mod on reddi, they control dozens or even hundreds of subs.
Someone who posts to reddit like it’s their job. They’re normally a mod for a far too many subs, repost already popular memes and probably take payments to push advertisements disguised as memes. I remember a period of time when everyone was posting weird happenings in front of their houses from their doorbell cams. The brand burn ins were always turned on.
Ohhh okay makes sense.
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.
If I find someone who speaks with reddit sarcasm, I’m blocking them
Lmao, regardless of community or context? I also don’t know the difference between sarcasm and reddit sarcasm.
Have you blocked me yet? If not, it might save time to do it now…
Lmao
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”
Sometimes I get into the weeds a bit arguing with someone over trivial shit, and my brain just can’t handle not getting the last word in. Blocking helps with that. It’s petty, sure, but it lets me move on and get back to my day rather than angrily typing out dumb responses that I would no doubt regret later.
I try to do it sparingly. I never want to be the one hardheaded guy everyone knows that will never admit defeat under any circumstances, so getting taken down a peg or two from time to time is probably healthy for me. Keeps me grounded in reality rather than huffing my own farts and calling it perfume.
I think I’ve had to ban more people from the community I moderate than people I’ve had to block for being assholes/trolls.
Never have and never will because im not a snowflake.
Blocked
I don’t have any users blocked. That said: blahaj.zone -> too much contentless noise ani.zone -> too many fit pics usa@lemmy.ml -> I’m not American, I don’t care too much and most of my feed is just American stuff even otherwise
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’m lightning fast the moment I realize someone is only looking to either
- be toxic, or worse
- waste my time, troll me.
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).
