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.

Not often. I browse by new all so I can begin the downvote train as early as possible and report stuff.

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.

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.

I don't block, I label them with a tag, usually 'asswipe'.

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.

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 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.

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).

The only person I've (reported and) blocked was posting csam.

Mostly block people that I think are taking up too much space on my feed

got a mile long blocklist of comms but never block a user account unless the display name is obnoxiously long or full of emojis

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'm very happy to block communities, much less so to block an individual. They've got to be consistently spammy for me to get annoyed enough to block.

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've only blocked a few people, but I'm quick to tag people as assholes/MAGA

I only block people who consistently post things I don't want to see or people who spam post the same thing eleventy billion times in different communities.

Personally I've thought about blocking you and violet for the horny posting but it's amusing enough that I haven't yet.

I tag first

Blocked

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.

Not terribly often, it's mostly reserved for the spammers. I like being able to tell bad people to fuck themselves more than once.

I've only ever had to block spammers on any Lemmy-like platform. Users tend to be cool and I try to give people grace for being awkward and weird because... I'm awkward and weird.

I never tried to block anyone because I have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to strangers on the internet. Well, except that guy that replaced all his "th"s with "þ". That was annoying and if he didn't give up on it, get banned, or otherwise disappear I might have learned how to block someone.

Only the clear trolls. Can't see their stuff to downvote if I block them.

Apparently, I block to curate a better-than-the-other-place experience, if the 200+ users, 100+ communities, and couple dozen instances I've blocked over the last 2+ yrs are any sign.

Mostly asshats & bots, and a zero-tolerance for hexbear, blahaj, ani/midwest/etc.social, feddit, yiffit, et al., but I'm open to suggestions, as well. 😂

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 never blocked anyone on lemmy, i think you'd need to actively seek out to harass me to get me to block you.

blocking someone about a disagreement in a silly internet argument makes the small fediverse even smaller for me. maybe the person i argued with while i was on the toilet has the worst political takes but they post beautiful art i wouldn't wanna miss, that kind of stuff yknow.

i also like drama and some people just like to be constantly wrong or deliberately agitate, which is rather entertaining 😈

I have no qualms blocking someone if they're particularly vile, but I prefer not to block. I have like 7ish people total blocked.

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.

I mod several communities so I never block people, because I want to see their posts and comments

I only block for one reason: egregious crossposting. Don’t post the same thing in four communities.

Do it sparsingly, if you don't want to create your own little echo chamber.

I do it mostly for bots/shills i've reported.

Been doing this conversation online thing since the mid 80's.

I have never blocked anyone.

People seem to use it all the time since social media became a thing, I always thought it was weird.

Was that because people did not learn to stay anonymous online?

I don't have any users blocked.
That said: blahaj.zone -> too much contentless noise
ani.social -> too many foot pics
usa@lemmy.ml -> I'm not American, I don't care too much and most of my feed is just American stuff even otherwise

I never block really

I want to feel good knowing how dumb some people are

The only places where I block are social media where accounts can post AI slop. It's an instant block from me so I never see their BS content again.

I use user tags if someone is just being a blockhead, but I'll block them if they're being harmful running apologetics for some heinous shit or pushing obvious misinformation