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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
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.
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.
Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.
Hell yeah
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.
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
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.
If it's gross porn or AI slop, instant block. For comments it's only if we get like a dozen replies into an argument and I stop assuming they're able to read
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.
I've only blocked a few people, but I'm quick to tag people as assholes/MAGA
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?
Piefed fixes this by combining them into one post.
A shame that it seems apps are slow to integrate that combining feature though.
I don't block, I label them with a tag, usually 'asswipe'.
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.
I do that too, but also if you enable tracking votes (I'm using Voyager) then you basically are tracking 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.
got a mile long blocklist of comms but never block a user account unless the display name is obnoxiously long or full of emojis
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.
My block list is around 100 users. Most are chronic NSFW posters polluting my All feed. The rest are either just annoying, spammers, or trolls.
I consume content here via all/new so my block list is used to make sure I don't see users, communities and instances that keep me from enjoying my time here. It's lengthy but does the job well.
Only the clear trolls. Can't see their stuff to downvote if I block them.
I'm at 21 users blocked. Seven of them have also been banned, apparently since I blocked them.
I have no doubt I appear on some users' block lists too.
I've blocked many more communities. Mostly foreign language, plus subjects I have zero interest in, like guns or baking. I've blocked a few new communities simply for spamming posts when they start, which is annoying. New mods should be aware of this, don't spam a bunch of posts when you start just to fill the front page, go slowly, wait a quarter or half an hour between posts. Or, maybe that's just me.
Idk how relevant this is given you’re on .world, the largest instance, but when an existing community that nobody on your instance is subscribed to gets its first sub on your instance, all the existing posts get pulled in and show at once in the feed. On a comparatively smaller instance like mine, I definitely notice when someone local first subscribes to an existing comm if I’m browsing all - so it’s not always someone being inconsiderate, sometimes just a quirk of federation
psshh blocked
Hell yeah
I mostly block specific communities that I just don't want to see. Cartoon porn? No judgement if you're into it, but there semms to be a lot and it's not my thing. If I notice you spamming propaganda constantly (ie, PJ) I'm blocking you. Stop clogging my feed with your low effort ax-grinding. Other than that, you really have to demonstrate bad faith.
Never blocked anyone.
I've only blocked a few accounts mainly for being absolute dipshits or spam bots, most are banned now anyway.
For everything else, you get either a nice tag labeled "clown" or if you're clearly a MAGA chud, "MAGA clown". Several tankies are tagged as such, plus a few I've seen that are possibly anti LGBT+ but have also posted about being LGBT+ so I'm unsure on them.
Basically just don't be a dick or give misinformation and you're pretty much fine with me.
I don't block super quickly unless they're obvious spam, bot, or troll with bad intentions. I am very quick to apply user tags my Lemmy client supports so that I can flag them for future reference. I use yellow to mean they're sus, consider their intent and recent history before engaging. I use red to mean "do not engage" just sit back and watch other people fall into the trap. I use Green for interesting people to pay attention to when they post or comment, like the dude/ette we have on Lemmy who is actively working on the Roku client for Jellyfin.
I block a lot less after switching to piefed which has a feature where I can tag users with poop and barfing and other emojies as it reminds me to laugh at the user instead of engaging.
Users: rarely, mostly bots or service accounts that post too much and clog the feed.
Subs: all the time, half are because i'm dum and can only read english, the rest are because they are from an instance/sub I dont want to hear from anymore. (Looking at the .ml and hexbears of the platform)
