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.
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.