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.
Mostly block people that I think are taking up too much space on my feed
Fair
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.
Idk what a power user even is
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
Have you blocked me yet? If not, it might save time to do it now…
Lmao
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.
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”
Never have and never will because im not a snowflake.
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
Blocked
Been doing this conversation online thing since the mid 80’s.
I have never blocked anyone.
People seem to use it all the time since social media became a thing, I always thought it was weird.
Was that because people did not learn to stay anonymous online?
I block the entire furry instance
I never block really
I want to feel good knowing how dumb some people are
The only places where I block are social media where accounts can post AI slop. It’s an instant block from me so I never see their BS content again.
I use user tags if someone is just being a blockhead, but I’ll block them if they’re being harmful running apologetics for some heinous shit or pushing obvious misinformation
i never blocked anyone on lemmy, i think you’d need to actively seek out to harass me to get me to block you.
blocking someone about a disagreement in a silly internet argument makes the small fediverse even smaller for me. maybe the person i argued with while i was on the toilet has the worst political takes but they post beautiful art i wouldn’t wanna miss, that kind of stuff yknow.
i also like drama and some people just like to be constantly wrong or deliberately agitate, which is rather entertaining 😈
