It’s honestly the best course of action for one’s mental health
The amount of assholes I’ve blocked in the last year has been staggering
The amount of those assholes who are relatives would shock most people
i had to real-life block my aunt and uncle. it was always something about how dumb liberals are and “you’ll understand when you’re older”. nah fuck you, i don’t need this shit in my life.
The only reason they get to say “you’ll understand when you’re older” is because they have something to protect as they got older.
In other words, they got theirs. And they don’t want to fucking share.
It’s a shit justification.
When I play online games I just mute everyone. Gaming is my relaxing time and I don’t feel like listening to people throwing around insults or being obnoxious. There is very little team strategy discussion in most games anyway.
That’s not how you use this template
Nobody cares
screw you! you suck! (I’m not old yet, must argue)
Is too
Grandma blocked the turd that always condescendingly tells her “ok sure whatever”, so she’s fucking silent now
A proper return to ‘Don’t Feed the Trolls’
Either OP is a genius or a moron, or both
A monius
A geron
Welcome to OP’s blocklist.
It’s good for your mental health, but bad for lemmy in general. Those people need to be called out on their shit, downvoted and banned if necessary.
Compare it to those scam emails that are written in bad english to weed out the people too intelligent to fall for it.
They prefer you banning them, so they can influence the people listening more easily.
As much as I love Lemmy, this platform would be unusable without the option to block astroturfers and bad faith actors.
Enh, I haven’t blocked anyone and I’m getting along fine.
I have however blocked all the porn and furry shit. I don’t need that coming up while I’m scrolling at work.
I haven’t blocked people.
I do extremely liberally block communities, though. I need all with the lower volume here and there’s a lot I’m just not interested in.
I’m very glad I got it out of my system when I was younger and was debating on Reddit over the stupidest of shit
Now I’m too busy irl, and if comment replies aren’t productive or entertaining to me, I just swipe them away and forget they ever existed.
