3mo ago

What do you block people for?

Do you have a criteria for what qualifies as block-worthy offence or are you just doing it when you feel like it?

Bonus question: how long is your block list?

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I block assholes. It drives me up the wall when someone is disrespectful for no reason. I also dislike those who get unnecessarily aggressive on the first message because the previous comment doesn't align with their views. I'll usually set a boundary and let people correct their attitude. After that, I'll block.
I'm also considering blocking those who make a hobby of subverting the previous comment by twisting people's words and overloading them with something the person did not mean to say, but those are trickier.
- I’m also considering blocking those who make a hobby ~~of subverting the previous comment by twisting people’s words and overloading them with something the person did not mean to say, but those are trickier.~~
  What do you have against hobbies? Why do you think that people should only eat, work and sleep? Do you loathe people that much??? /s
  Serious now. I block this sort of people, and heavily recommend others to do the same. They're a waste of time; even if you clarify what they're distorting they'll do it again, and again. It is a bit tricky because genuine miscommunication also happens, but I typically solve that by checking the profile for consistent behaviour. The "controversial" sorting works wonders here.
  
  Pretty much my criteria exactly. An off remark is fine, we all fuck up once in awhile, but consistent rude or dishonest behaviour gets them a block. It's not worth my time and emotional energy to deal with angry children. I get enough of that at work already.
  What I think is funny is someone I blocked also responded to your comment.
  
  Yeah, I have no patience for these types. Just dealt with one. They love to assume something weird and awful that no one would've meant and then harass you about it. I struggle not to be rude to dickheads like that.
  
  That's why I tag people who do this. It becomes much easier to figure out who is consistently being a shithead or pushing an agenda.
  
  What are you using to tag users? I want to do this too.
  EDIT: nevermind, you mentioned it in another comment (Boost). It wouldn't work for me as I'm using Lemmy from a computer. Still, it's some great functionality, I wish that it existed for the web interface too. (There was/is a Firefox extension for that in Reddit, and I miss it. It wasn't only useful to tag "bad" users, but also good ones - I used it all the time in r/linguistics to tag the expertise area of some laymen.)
  
  It's definitely a feature that's sorely needed for the browser versions.
- those who get unnecessarily aggressive on the first message because the previous comment doesn’t align with their views
  i feel like thats more of a turbo-redditor-moved-to-lemmy thing

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