Cuteness: this poll actually grew out of @mina 's post about suspiciously friendly greetings ("Good morning 🌷", "Hi, gorgeous 😍", etc.) usually from chasers; I'll add from my experience people who play shy ("hello") or vulnerable ("hi") and expect our full attention and the effort of carrying the conversation from there.

Yes, maybe I'm reading too much into innocent utterances. Don't care about that opinion. Old and entirely out of fucks after 2020. Don't let the door hit your ass on your way out.

Mina

2026-01-30 14:04:40

Did you ever feel the wish to get blocked immediately?

Dead easy:

Be a new follower and send me a message with "Good morning" and a flower/and or heart emoji.

The blocklist is still empty here and on IRC.

Dealing with US crypto/NFT/AI incel Nazi trolls on EFnet has made me quite thick-skinned. Also, you can't troll them back if they're on the ignore list.

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@mina I mean, anything but the first in a DM is pretty block-worthy? but out somewhere in a thread? the only people I block are either egregeous bigots or repeat-offender bigots in all but a tiny minority of cases

3+ years and my personal block list is somewhere between 10~20 accounts

Plus any indication that they are short-sighted, narrow-minded, fanatics/fundamentalists of any kind.

An opinion is cool, but the method of delivery can make, or break, the first contact process.

i block people when I feel the world would be a better place if we weren't triggering eachother into repetitive unwholesome patterns. Other than that I don't have many rules about what others are allowed to do.

Unless they're on the obvious part of the list that you didn't include like death threats, fascism and that sort of thing.

For the most part, none of the above. Rather:

- indication they're bad-faith/sockpuppet
- expressing hateful "political" views or demanding that others tolerate or give space to such views
- any suggestion that their involvement in conversation is for the purpose of attracting attention of followers with intent to harass/threaten
- making unwanted/hostile contact with someone I boosted and being unwilling to refrain from that after told it's not ok

I've unfollowed a few people who've endlessly raged at me for not throwing myself at the train of us politics. I suppose I'd block people who post propaganda nonsense.

I don't block very much for some reason.

Spambots are pretty much the only thing I block on sight.

If someone proves themselves incapable of providing anything but slur-filled "conversation" though, I also tend to block or mute.

For me it's more about what kind of person someone is, than current behavior.

I've seen people act or express themself in a very unfortunate way, that made them look bad, but doesn't show as much about their personality, as many people seem to assume it does.

Conversely, some people just are a "walking red flag", even if they are good at convincing others of their virtuousness, or at least harmlessness.

In other words, mostly (to me) obivous dishonesty.

And "AI"-content.

@astronomerritt

Muting is absolutely valid! It doesn't do a thing for my (flawed) attentional resource management, though. If I don't curb the temptation firmly I end up wasting time either then or later. And yes, I do a lot of preemptive blocking too from watching other people's mentions (persons I respect, obviously) and going "yes, I don't need that now or ever". Secret of my long-term survival back in the Twitter days actually and I carried it here.