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.
none yet
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
Thats reasonable.
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.
Thanks for that.
Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.
Hell yeah
In the trenches with a shovel and a packed snack. Fuckyeah. 🤘🏻
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”
Mostly block people that I think are taking up too much space on my feed
Fair
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.
Gotta pump those numbers up! There are dozens of users who somehow think they’re still in that other place. Dozens!
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.
ani.social is…weird. I block the entire instance.
ani.social is…weird
Yes. It’s like they’ve never heard of tagging.
I block them to keep myself from posting the “if those kids could read” meme each time someone asks them to use tags.
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being from reddit, i often block as soon as possible, and report alot. the latter burned my accounts, so i dont report here at all.
I don’t recall reporting anyone on Lemmy. I do see users getting banned so either other users are reporting or the mods are very active.
Yes, I’ve blocked some people, but it’s mostly communities.
Same. 28 users blocked. Far more communities in my list.
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.
Might be the unironic usage of “whilst”? 😅😶
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.
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.
I never block anyone. I just tag people so I know who I’m dealing with the next time I encounter them.
Btw I have you tagged too
Hell yeah
What do you have me tagged as ??
Nothing yet. But I’m sure your paths will cross in the future in some discussion and I will get to judge your whole life and personality based on a few comments and probably get you labelled as someone you’re not, because that’s how the internet works.
you motherfucker …!!
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 blocked everyone in this thread
lalala can’t hear you you’re blocked
Good
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.
block and reporting on reddit is pretty futile, too much bots, and reporting too much, depending on the sub, you can get temp banned for doing it.
Yeah I hear you on all that
Blocked
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
