Only if I don't like the content they post

There's that one guy who keeps making accounts with the same cm00* username but different servers. I wish piefed/blorp could block accounts based on a regex , wildcard, or other filter.

I block posters and commenters I don't want to see. Its that simple.

I used to avoid it because I thought I'd create an echochamber, but I've come to realise that there's a few users with fixations about specific issues that just give me the shits honestly.

At least they are posting something and keeping the community active. We can't all be lurkers.

For the most part…no, I don’t. I’m still of the mindset that there’s not enough people posting across communities, so blocking accounts is an absolutely last resort for me personally.

That said, there is one account that I know of that I question if it’s really a person or a bot. I won’t say who. However, they post multiple times an hour across a lot of communities. (I even went to their profile once to see when there would be a sizable break/gap for when they should be sleeping and didn’t find a gap within a 24 hour window!) I actually removed myself from one community because the posting there became way too frequent. Elsewhere that same account posts relevant content, so that was a better balance for me.

TL;DR - Usually no, so long as they’re posting what I consider acceptable/decent quality content. I’m more likely to remove myself from one community than block an account to tone down the level of posts in my subscribed feed.

I definitely understand finding it annoying though.

Also, welcome to Lemmy!

Certain new accounts come out of the gate posting to the same 5 or 6 groups before deleting themselves.

I get suspicious over every new account.

The only account I've had to block so far is LadyButterfly. I'm usually against blocking people but I just couldn't take it anymore.

I have six nicoles in my block list 😄

No, not consciously. However, I do block accounts that reply to me in a shitty or condescending way. Life's too short to deal with these people and I'll never meet them in real life. I've wasted far too much time engaging with arseholes over on Reddit, but since I've moved here I've been pleasantly surprised by the civility of most discourse. So that's why I block anyone wrecking my experience.

I think I blocked a couple of accounts years ago that were just reposting ancient memes from reddit in bot-like numbers. But it seems like the majority of content here falls under that category, so blocking seems futile. Can't even use downvoting to correct the issue because our votes aren't private/anonymous here and I don't need a large account seeing that I downvote their content every time I come across it. It would have to feel personal at that point 😆

I don't mind big accounts in principle, I just don't want to see memes from 2018 being reposted every day with the same titles, and for there to be no other content from those accounts.

The accounts that post into all sorts of comms including many they aren't a member of. The posts are usually pretty low quality and its clear the operator is not curating anything.

They're probably not bots mostly, just people who choose to scroll the "All" feed instead of maintain a "Subscribed" feed. I don't roll that way myself, but I guess it allows you to see more content.

Like I'm sure there literally exists some user who secretly bots Lemmy, but why would anyone spend time and money botting our irrelevant little ass crack of the Internet?

I've blocked 43 users and 6 communities, fediverse looks great now.

No, mainly because who else is really posting?

I block them if (f * t - p - e) / q * r passes a certain threshold, where f is the frequency of posting, t is how annoyed I am by the general theme or topic of those posts, p is the cuteness of their profile pic, e is the amount of effort they put into each post, q is the overall quality of the posts, and r is a random number generated by my subconscious.

I don't block anyone but I do post frequently. I only ever get annoyed when someone is posting the same thing in multiple communities at the same time.

There's a fair few high volume posters who are definitely not bots, just terminally online (said with love!)

That's not to say there aren't bots that show up, but it's definitely not all the high volume accounts

I think the only ones I've blocked are mostly just obviously malicious, I think there's a one or two on there from ages ago I just found kinda unfunny, it's not really tied to the volume of posts.

There's not an endless amount of content here anyway, so I'm not gonna block someone just for contributing a lot, there needs to be some negative aspect to the posting for me to block

Only a few obvious bots because they were filling up my feed. I like seeing posts from users, especially when it comes to news.

I have a few accounts blocked but I mostly block communities.

Same i.e. 8 days acct age, 512posts, 2359 comments

nah, patnou is ok if a little lost

Sometimes. I like to interact with people who comment, but also with those who post those threads. If they post too much, they most likely don't have time to talk about it.

I don't block almost anyone, usually the egregious bot accounts get banned. I think I've blocked maybe 3 accounts.

If it hits my feed regularly and has no value or makes me cringe, hell yeah. We don't have an algorithm here to help you sort out the content, your subs and blocks do all the lifting.

Someone arguing in bad faith? Block.

Someone reposting the same drivel day after day? Block.

Don't care for the content of a community? block.

No need to fight, no need to complain, I have ~150 blocks, you're doing them and youself a favor.

The other day I read a comment that says you can automatically filter out users wo post with high frequency. Is that true, does anyone know how? I've only looked at the settings through Boost.

Yeah there's a lot of bots that aren't marked as bots that just repost from reddit

Sometimes. I tend to do it when the posts are all low quality or I have seen them reposted a lot. Haven't done this since I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, though.

There's one reposter I want to block. But he has so many posts that his Mbin profile page refuses to load, and that's where the "block" button is...

It depends on what the account is posting prolifically. For example, I’ll happily read silence7’s interesting links any time, but Patnou just asks weird questions over and over and I blocked them after a while. Weird questions may produce more engagement in the form of comments, but that’s a flawed metric because overall it’s just not interesting to see in the feed.

Yes

no not specifically but I could see doing it if I felt it was warranted.

No users yet, but I’ve blocked a few communities, mostly ones in foreign (to me) languages. I do find myself regretting that I signed up for an instance that doesn’t allow downvotes; sometimes you see posts that really really need to be downvoted 😄

I don't even know how to block. I don't want my experience to be an echo chamber plus creating new accounts is so easy that blocking doesn't avoid motivated spammers.

naw, i dont give a shit. my lifes too short

No

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