I always felt like it was wrong to block an account unless it was smth absolutely insane. Nazis etc.
But now I’m blocking people who’s tone I dont like, or who are baiting or actingnin bad faith.
I know I can’t do it as a mod. But i can certainly do it as an individual now. Judgy comment? Blocked. Unnecessarily confrontational? Blocked.
This is new to me, literally 3 days. Wonder how this affects my feed. Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can’t see it. I wish they couldn’t see anything I posted either.
What are your blocking habits? If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?
Those categories do exist but I’d say there’s a third important one which tries to achieve the first without sacrificing the second: blocking people for their attitude rather than their opinions.
Maybe for you this still comes under the first category
Yeah, I put it in the first, though I totally see how it should be a category of its own
Blocking trolls and other people acting in bad faith is, in my opinion, a baseline requirement for maintaining civil discussions.
Though by doing so you can already cut some demographic prone to certain views.