none yet

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.

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"

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 never block anyone. I just tag people so I know who I'm dealing with the next time I encounter them.

Btw I have you tagged too

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.

i blocked everyone in this thread

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

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).

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.

Blocked

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

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. 😂

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 never do unless they are a clear scam/troll account. No matter how much i disagree with their opinions, i still want to see it and engage with them, for fear of being the architect of my own echo chamber

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.

I tag first

One dude got into a highly uncivil argument about what constitutes "real physics" on a post of a tumblr screenshot with overwrought prose about... (tbh I don't remember now but I'm thinking electromagnetism?) then reported the other user. Don't get me wrong it was bad tumblr prose but like. It's a genre some people like and a staple of tumblr culture which the comm was about.

Anyway I temp banned them both (I think I did accidentally remove too many comments but anyway) because they were having a toddler level squabble with profanity over tumblr poetry. One of them called me some kinda profanity so I permabanned them and they made a post on power tripping mods and pretty much everyone was like "you know we can still dig out the comments AND your DMs and you're kinda just a menace... right? Like I woke up and pretty much everyone had already defended me. Anyway I blocked them and moved on with my life. People need to use the block button more often tbh.

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

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 block the entire furry instance

I tried to discuss but now I block tankies at the first sealioning attempt (or similar strategy).