Do you have a criteria for what qualifies as block-worthy offence or are you just doing it when you feel like it?

Bonus question: how long is your block list?

  • ContrarianTrailOP
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    2 months ago

    Most of the people I’ve blocked haven’t broken any rules. Reporting them would be pointless.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s fair, most of the people I’ve dealt with who I thought about blocking usually were, either they were directly harassing or attacking me, were blatantly alt-right trolls attacking other people for their presentation or they were simply being rude and hostile for no reason.

      I guess those things might be different on lemm.ee but generally here those things earn people comment or post removal, community bans, and sometimes even site bans (account termination if this is their home server). Same is true for other servers I’m on. Including the Mastodon server I’m a part of.

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        2 months ago

        I probably have way lower criteria for blocking than most other people. I deliberately go to threads about Elon Musk for example and block everyone making snide remarks about him. Not because I’m a fan of Musk but because I’m not interested in dealing with people who use social media to talk shit. The people I have had the most insightful conversations with don’t post replies like that. My blocklist is way over 500 users long already and I add several people to it every day. I’m simply just trying to improve the signal to noise ratio.