Annoying me

If it sounds subjective as shit, that’s because it is. It follows my vibe for that day.

Posting/commenting right wing garbage or tankie “North Korea is a great place” bullshit. Also flat earther crap. Pretty much any insane, out of touch with reality stuff.

Tankies go straight to the Shadow Realm

I block assholes. It drives me up the wall when someone is disrespectful for no reason. I also dislike those who get unnecessarily aggressive on the first message because the previous comment doesn’t align with their views. I’ll usually set a boundary and let people correct their attitude. After that, I’ll block.

I’m also considering blocking those who make a hobby of subverting the previous comment by twisting people’s words and overloading them with something the person did not mean to say, but those are trickier.

When a co-worker just endlessly stalks you after staring, and being weird and creepy. I had no mutual friends and she kept showing up as someone I might know.

I don’t block people, even if someone is being stupid I doubt I’d run into them that often again. But of course, if someone was personally harrassing me, I’d block, it just hasn’t happened here.

Ad hominem -> block.

My blocklist is 30~40 users long. [For reference, my blocklist in Reddit reached 400 or so.]

To keep it short, I typically block people who, egregious or consistently:

• show lack of reasoning, even if I agree with the conclusion
• misrepresent what others say
• take things off context to judge them, even if I agree with the judgement
• vomit lots of “hard” certainty on things that they cannot reasonably know (e.g. the others’ emotional states over the internet)
• engage in passive aggressiveness (note that I tolerate some clear hostility, just not pass-aggro)
• show clear signs of sealioning (e.g. “I don’t understand” + misrepresentation of what someone else said)
• tell others shit like “trust me” = “I expect you to be a gullible piece of rubbish”

Note that “egregious or consistently” are key words here. Like, I’m not going out of my way to block someone out of a brainfart; this is not some sort of petty revenge, it’s just removing from my sight people who I believe to not contribute with my overall Lemmy experience. I also don’t take issue when people block me, for whatever reason they might have.

Saying shit that makes me think they’ll be a reliably crazy contributor to conversations.

I have 85 people blocked. Most of them for spamming, probably. The rest for harshing my mellow by aggressively being assholes to others or just because I’ve realized my personal experience is more pleasant with their absence.

I don’t owe my attention to anyone. I see lots of comments here about refusing to censor alternate points of view, but that’s not it. I can enjoy healthy disagreement, but some folks make some agenda their entire identity and I just get tired of them constantly injecting it into every conversation.

On the other hand there’ve been many people I’ve disagreed with, engaged with, found some common ground, and continue to enjoy their presence even knowing we don’t see eye to eye. Or, if they post about other things, I just ignore the rants I disagree with. It’s not filtering out points of view, it’s filtering out people whose presence makes Lemmy a source of stress rather than an interesting, vibrant community. That’s obviously very subjective, but it’s my block list and my peace of mind.

You usually block people for good audience sight-lines and sensible character interactions. It can also communicate relationships non-verbally.

And you want to avoid awkward shuffling as they enter and exit the stage.

Blocking is important in film as well, but less so due to close ups, shot reverse-shoot, and editing.

Only one block due to spam. Even the user name was cheap{goodstype}.

Usually there is no point blocking, you get banned for the stuff I’d block anyway.

Spam.

And posting nsfw content without tags.

Here I haven’t blocked anyone else than people who fall into those two categories for now.

But I’ll block anyone posting illegal and vile stuff. I accept other points of view, but only if they keep it legal and, where pertinent, consensual.

I’ve blocked a few bots but I would only block an actual person if they’re harassing me. I’d rather downvote or report people that are saying hateful things.

• Genocide denial
• Fascism
• Racism
• Bad-faith arguments
• Really really stupid & low effort
• Consistently really really negative
• Vote manipulation
• Spam, CSAM

I’ve banned 1074 accounts from the instance I run, most of them for boring reasons like spam. Usually between 1 and 10 per day.