There may be an age or generational explanation for this, but I especially notice this behavior on Reddit while not nearly as much here on Lemmy (though maybe that’s also a mater of implementation).
It seems many are so quick to assert overly-confident positions, but then hit-and-run with some smarmy remark at even the slightest challenge, then quickly block. Like, not even crazy stuff. Just basic, civil disagreements. I can pretty well predict when it will happen, and it always feels like such a petty ego-sparing fingers-in-ears denial thing to do, and to me if anything shows they were not very confident in their views being challenged.
I think I’ve only blocked a handful of people over a decade who were actively spamming, stalking, or spewing extremely hateful rhetoric and I just reported them simultaneously. You have to cross a pretty extreme and irrational line for me to do that.
The reason I ask is to see if I’m missing something; to better understand the mindset of those who do.
I love that term curate. I find it funny that people don’t like blocking but are fine with subscribing. Subscribing and only looking at subscribing is akin to blocking everything else. Blocking and perusing all means you will come across new communities you don’t want to block.
Seriously changed my experience for the better when i changed my mindset in line with this. I don’t block many people, but just knowing that i can makes my experience here so much more pleasant.
I don’t have to read or deal with people’s bs if I don’t want to. This is just for fun, it’s not real life.
the edit feature with piefed is just great to. Makes it easier. Ill just put a little note here and if I think about blocking in the future I will take it into account. similarly someone says something off base and I have some good notes. maybe they had a bad day.
How does this edit feature work? What does it do?
just lets you add a note. you can see it when you look at the user under the dropdown options.
Nice! I guess Blorp doesn’t have it yet.
yeah you know I think pefed social tends to get things first. we have had if for awhile though.