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've never blocked someone. Idk why. Maybe too much action for something that doesn't make any big difference.
This isn't meant to judge over people who block others, there could be good reasons like stalking etc.
- I think I’ve blocked one or two people on lemmy. Only because they like to spam posts all at once and it will fill up an entire page with just their shit.
  Outside of that I’ve never blocked anyone, nor do I ever really want to block anyone.
  
  Ah I see, that's more like a content block. Wouldn't a filter do the same, I bet they spam to the same topics?
  
  The topics weren't an issue. The issue is more with Lemmy's sorting algorithm not being great.
  
  You may want to try out scaled sort if your instance supports it, most of them do these days. Only a very small handful of archaic instances have not updated to 0.19.x yet.
  
  Scaled sorting is what caused that issue. Active or hot don't really have that issue since they're more likely to show slightly older but highly voted things. VS scaled which will just dump all 20 posts from one person even though nobody has voted on them.
- It does actually make a difference. Especially on a small platform like Lemmy. I'd say that around 50% of the time that I see a blocked user make a comment and I log out to read it, it just confirms that blocking them was the right choice.
  
  Man I wish we had a "flag" option as an alternative. I don't wanna block anyone because sometimes I still wanna read their comments/posts.
  I just want to flag them so when I come across them again I can keep in mind that they did a no-no before. You could even use it to categorize (this user is a spammer, this one a troll, etc.)
  
  I know that some apps and browser extensions do this, but I really think that it's important for Lemmy itself to have an existing notes feature as part of the server software and backend, which allows your notes to be saved as part of your account.
  Mastodon has this feature and lets you leave notes on users' profiles. I do this a lot on there. I guess there isn't any reason why you couldn't use Mastodon's version of it if you regularly post to Lemmy communities from Mastodon, but since I and many others are lemmy users, and post + read from here it's good to have that feature available on this server's software natively.
  
  There's a few alternatives to reddit pro tools that let you do this. I forget which one I had installed before but it had some basic tagging.
  
  Boost lets you tag users so you can figure out who is consistently beint shitty. I think a few other apps also have that functionality.
  
  I need that for the opposing reason. Sometimes people write so good comments that I don't want to block them for the stupid comment they write the next day.
- I don’t block people either because my mom didn’t raise no pussies.
- Some people are just completely deranged, like, pathologically deranged. Those people just annoy me, and I don't want to get annoyed/angered every time I read their bullshit.

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