Everyone here talking about blocking for political reasons and bad behavior while I’m over here blocking because you post unfunny memes.

I blocked several users who post far-left memes because they just sucked and weren’t even funny in the slightest, they just wanted to get their point across rather than make a funny memr

I have 85 people blocked. Most of them for spamming, probably. The rest for harshing my mellow by aggressively being assholes to others or just because I’ve realized my personal experience is more pleasant with their absence.

I don’t owe my attention to anyone. I see lots of comments here about refusing to censor alternate points of view, but that’s not it. I can enjoy healthy disagreement, but some folks make some agenda their entire identity and I just get tired of them constantly injecting it into every conversation.

On the other hand there’ve been many people I’ve disagreed with, engaged with, found some common ground, and continue to enjoy their presence even knowing we don’t see eye to eye. Or, if they post about other things, I just ignore the rants I disagree with. It’s not filtering out points of view, it’s filtering out people whose presence makes Lemmy a source of stress rather than an interesting, vibrant community. That’s obviously very subjective, but it’s my block list and my peace of mind.

When I remember that it is Guy that post things that ennoys me, it is Time for a block. It doesn’t have to be something I’m angry about if the user is active enough in a space I frenquent but their post doesn’t interest me, I block them to clear my view.

I’l lucky to never had to block someone because I got on an internet fight with them.

I try not to block people, but if you prove to me you want nothing but to put me down with shit you made up in your head about me, that’s usually what does it. Also tankie assholes or just people who want to gin up an argument where there shouldn’t be one.

I have blocked a LOT of communities because I don’t want my feed to be half porn and images of weirdly sexualized anime girls who appear to be children. That shit is insanely creepy and besides not enjoying it, I don’t want people who glance at my phone to think I’m a pervert.

Posting/commenting right wing garbage or tankie “North Korea is a great place” bullshit. Also flat earther crap. Pretty much any insane, out of touch with reality stuff.

Saying shit that makes me think they’ll be a reliably crazy contributor to conversations.

When a co-worker just endlessly stalks you after staring, and being weird and creepy. I had no mutual friends and she kept showing up as someone I might know.

Tankies go straight to the Shadow Realm

Only one block due to spam. Even the user name was cheap{goodstype}.

Usually there is no point blocking, you get banned for the stuff I’d block anyway.

I block assholes. It drives me up the wall when someone is disrespectful for no reason. I also dislike those who get unnecessarily aggressive on the first message because the previous comment doesn’t align with their views. I’ll usually set a boundary and let people correct their attitude. After that, I’ll block.

I’m also considering blocking those who make a hobby of subverting the previous comment by twisting people’s words and overloading them with something the person did not mean to say, but those are trickier.

I don’t block people, even if someone is being stupid I doubt I’d run into them that often again. But of course, if someone was personally harrassing me, I’d block, it just hasn’t happened here.

Ad hominem -> block.