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.

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

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

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 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 block the entire furry instance

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 😈

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’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).

Just some bots. Any human user that needs to be blocked is going to get themselves banned anyway, so they’re already going to be spinning up new accounts and instances to keep it going.