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.

  • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」@sh.itjust.works
    53·
    5 days ago

    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

  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    4 days ago

    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”

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    4 days ago

    I’m very happy to block communities, much less so to block an individual. They’ve got to be consistently spammy for me to get annoyed enough to block.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      6·
      4 days ago

      tankies one i will almost always block if i see thier comment, its never a good comment(its almost whining about the “not far left”. only .ml i give benefit of a doubt, due,apparently alot of them have an .ml as a solely techy account and not a political one.

  • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
    41·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • acchariya@lemmy.world
    6·
    4 days ago

    I never tried to block anyone because I have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to strangers on the internet. Well, except that guy that replaced all his "th"s with “þ”. That was annoying and if he didn’t give up on it, get banned, or otherwise disappear I might have learned how to block someone.

    • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      4 days ago

      I do recall blocking the thorn guy from my previous account. So that’s a downside to establishing a new Lemmy account. All the users I’d blocked are now roaming freely in my feed again.

    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      3 days ago

      Honestly that dude and the person super into dragon sex are actually the best trolls I’ve met. 100% harmless and it’s wild how many people DON’T just hit the block button when they find them annoying. They’re like a built in litmus test for whether a Lemmy user is a fully developed adult who can avoid getting entangled in dumb conversations (which apparently you are).

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    5 days ago

    Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    3 days ago

    One dude got into a highly uncivil argument about what constitutes “real physics” on a post of a tumblr screenshot with overwrought prose about… (tbh I don’t remember now but I’m thinking electromagnetism?) then reported the other user. Don’t get me wrong it was bad tumblr prose but like. It’s a genre some people like and a staple of tumblr culture which the comm was about.

    Anyway I temp banned them both (I think I did accidentally remove too many comments but anyway) because they were having a toddler level squabble with profanity over tumblr poetry. One of them called me some kinda profanity so I permabanned them and they made a post on power tripping mods and pretty much everyone was like "you know we can still dig out the comments AND your DMs and you’re kinda just a menace… right? Like I woke up and pretty much everyone had already defended me. Anyway I blocked them and moved on with my life. People need to use the block button more often tbh.

  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 days ago

    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

  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    I mod several communities so I never block people, because I want to see their posts and comments

  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Apparently, I block to curate a better-than-the-other-place experience, if the 200+ users, 100+ communities, and couple dozen instances I’ve blocked over the last 2+ yrs are any sign.

    Mostly asshats & bots, and a zero-tolerance for hexbear, blahaj, ani/midwest/etc.social, feddit, yiffit, et al., but I’m open to suggestions, as well. 😂

      • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        That’s what I read as well, and it sounded like a genuinely lovely place, but after dozens of nearly consecutive user blocks from there, I was compelled to just call it. 🥲🙇🏽‍♂️

  • Scott 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    5 days ago

    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.