Is Blocking Users Problematic to the Platform? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There was an issue on Reddit a while back where people would post some hateful stuff, and of course lots of people blocked them.

After a while, anti-trans, racist, and far-right-wing stuff were only seen by non-logged in users, other bigots, or new people, and they weren't getting the downvotes they deserved.

Is this going to be a problem on Lemmy too? I'm worried that if we're all blocking shitty users that we're just hiding the problem from ourselves, not fixing it.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The vast majority of users I block don't break the rules. It's usually that I see a low-effort comment so I open their profile and if their post history indicates they're providing nothing of a value here I block them to improve the noise to signal ratio on my feed. It's not about wether I agree with them or not but are they making any sense.

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