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.
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.
Dota player here. I sometimes even mute people before they have said anything, simply because I don't like their vibe.
Sometimes I don't even want to deal with the friendly people because interacting can be exhausting for me.
As much as I love Lemmy, this platform would be unusable without the option to block astroturfers and bad faith actors.
I used to worry that it was a losing strategy, because if I don't block them then they will have unfettered access to the new people of the Internet. But then I started to think it doesn't matter, I'd rather have my own mental health.
Unfortunately lemmy is a lot less active when you ban afford Assholes, muck rakers, and people just looking for fights.
That's not how you use this template
Nobody cares
screw you! you suck! (I'm not old yet, must argue)
You know you are wise when you just scrolled passed it and understand that the opinions of strangers do not matter to you.
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.
My block list lags my browser
A proper return to 'Don't Feed the Trolls'
I often comment offering info on the subjects I know, and found that when an asshole is arguing I don't need to answer when i know I'm right. Other commenters will back me up naturally by agreeing. (unless i'm wrong of course)
So in most cases unless you are just spreading lies, someone else will correct the assholes. This kinda removes the stress of troll replies i find
