Ask Lemmy

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.

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

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.

i blocked everyone in this thread

Mostly block people that I think are taking up too much space on my feed

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"

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.

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.

I tried to discuss but now I block tankies at the first sealioning attempt (or similar strategy).

The second I see 2 identical posts by the same user on multiple communities

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

I review the posts and either pull the trigger or don't. There have been plenty that I have not. My bar is seing a person with geniune diverse interests who does not always act like a dick.

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

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. 😂

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.

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.

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

I tend to label rather than block. But it’s been a while and either I’ve forgotten how or voyager has removed the feature

Blocked

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).

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

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.

I only really blocked power users on reddit and lemmy doesn't have those yet. Not the same way gallowboob was.