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.
none yet
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
Thats reasonable.
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.
Editorializing articles? Name and shame.
epsteinfiles@lemmy.world
The reality of what’s going on provides enough to legitimately complain about. Making up headlines is just cheap outrage farming and undermines any credibility.
If you feel the title is misleading then you can absolutely complain about that in the comments.
Thanks for that.
Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.
Hell yeah
In the trenches with a shovel and a packed snack. Fuckyeah. 🤘🏻
I have not really had to block til recently. Esp attention seekers who have just joined and are posting immature crap.
I would say i have blocked at least 5 in the last 2 weeks.
Gotta pump those numbers up! There are dozens of users who somehow think they’re still in that other place. Dozens!
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.
Yeah I block communities pretty frequently because I sort by new. Usually porn.
ani.social is…weird. I block the entire instance.
ani.social is…weird
Yes. It’s like they’ve never heard of tagging.
I block them to keep myself from posting the “if those kids could read” meme each time someone asks them to use tags.
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Yes, I’ve blocked some people, but it’s mostly communities.
Same. 28 users blocked. Far more communities in my list.
being from reddit, i often block as soon as possible, and report alot. the latter burned my accounts, so i dont report here at all.
I don’t recall reporting anyone on Lemmy. I do see users getting banned so either other users are reporting or the mods are very active.
I’m very quick to block. Much faster to do so than I was on Reddit. I think the reason is because there’s so much less content on Lemmy that I sort by new instead of “hot”. That means I see content that would normally have been downvoted out of sight on Reddit. I’m tired of giving people the benefit of the doubt just to see the same terrible shit from them again later on. Now I just block.
Yeah I hear you on all that
block and reporting on reddit is pretty futile, too much bots, and reporting too much, depending on the sub, you can get temp banned for doing it.
I don’t block, I label them with a tag, usually ‘asswipe’.
A guy commented a screenshot of me with a tag like that. “Toxic do not interact”. I do act toxic in the shitpost community lmao so, fair. I’m real good in serious communities though.
The left lemmy vibe is very-much bipolar.
You could post identical comments 10 minutes apart and one could be downvoted to oblivion whilst the other is top comment.
the tankies are the problems, they behave too similar like conservatives.
Might be the unironic usage of “whilst”? 😅😶
I do that too, but also if you enable tracking votes (I’m using Voyager) then you basically are tasking positive and negative encounters and you get an idea what a thread will be like just by looking. Example, you and OP appear to be nice peeps:
Never knew about the tracking option; I’m piqued.
Tankie and Energy Vampire are my two go to tags. I only block spammers or anything horrific like the couple times some assholes did CSAM attacks.
Yup, once I figured out I could tag users I started doing that instead. Much better to be prepared than to just choose blindness.
Generally I’m a bit more specific though.
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”
Im fairly quick to block, especially if the person is clearly acting with bad intent. Id rather have slow and steady high quality content than mediocre garbage every few seconds. Social media does not consume my life and I lived in the era of forums. I am used to waiting for good content.
I can agree on that
you wouldn’t dare blocking me
I only block for one reason: egregious crossposting. Don’t post the same thing in four communities.
Isn’t that the point of cross posting in the first place, to share a cross multiple communities?
That’s why they said egregious.
Piefed fixes this by combining them into one post.
A shame that it seems apps are slow to integrate that combining feature though.
I prefer them not being combined, so I have a better idea who to block.
Oooo I totally agree
The only person I’ve (reported and) blocked was posting csam.
Fucking YIKES
Please report spam also.
I do, but (in my client) messages are still displayed if I report them. That’s why in this case I also needed to block the user.
The posts will appear until mods review/remove. I want to use this moment to thank the current insurance from which I’m posting global mod, @kindenough@kbin.earth for seemingly never sleeping and very quickly removing nuisance posts like spam and porn/adjacent that leaks from their designated communities, and owner, @jwr1@kbin.earth for quickly addressing issues I’ve had using the web interface . The other instances on which I’m active mods/admins are also pretty great, but since I’m currently posting from kbin, I’ll leave it at that.
never encountered one like that? was it a specific community.
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 think that all of the people I’ve blocked for a reason that I can recall have been users who were repeatedly spamming comments in threads to try to make them unreadable for other users. One was just commenting over and over with a couple of giant inline Simpsons images.
Wild trolling behavior. Was it in a troll related community?
No; I’m not subscribed to any communities that deal with trolling. I wasn’t even aware that there were any out there.
I mean like shitposting/meme communities. I troll and act silly in communities like those but mostly keep it serious in this one along with other serious communities.
Oh. I don’t mean people posting memes or reaction gifs or stuff like that. I don’t recall the specifics of the community, though.
EDIT: Though the only meme community I subscribe to is !linuxmemes@lemmy.world.
I tag first
Yep.
I haven’t blocked anyone, but I have people tagged with 🤡 or 💩 if they’re a troll, a shill, and ass, etc.
Don’t forget 🇮🇱 and 🇷🇺
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