• redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    I think you might be right. I let it slide in other comments as I put it down to the ordinary liberal world-outlook. But there’s only so long I’ll put up with schoolyard name-calling. I’ve got better things to do.

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      1 year ago

      I think Lemmy needs a little bit of work on how blocking a user works. It gets confusing seeing new comments come through and not being able to see what they’re replying to. You also have no option to report a comment if you can’t see it. Even if you click the “show context” button, knowing that you’re about to force a blocked user’s comment to show, it just refuses. You have to open in an incognito tab and click show context. Basically, I want the ability to not see their comments in general, and not see them on the “new comments” feed, but if I explicitly ask to see their comments, let me do that.

      I have blocked a large number of users who have consistently added nothing to conversation, or who routinely resort to personal attacks.

      I am truly frustrated and disappointed that so many people:

      • feel it acceptable to personally attack another commenter
      • accuse everyone who disagrees with them of being a paid shill, or a troll
      • use “shut down” words, with the intent to either entirely discredit the person they’re responding to, or end the conversation where it is
      • literally copy-and-paste the same reply all over a thread or targeting a person[1]
      • make bold claims with no sources, and when you reply correcting them and provide sources of your own, they downvote and don’t reply
      • engage in conspiracy thinking and go on imaginative expeditions, where connection to reality is secondary to consistency with their beliefs

      I know it’s naive to think people will be able to always get along. And I guess it is naive to assume that people actually want to learn, and try to help others learn. But that’s what I want. I’d much rather converse with someone who shares none of my values or beliefs as long as they’re level-headed, not resorting to trickery or fallacious reasoning, are willing to source their statements, and respect me in dialogue.


      1. I saw one yesterday where the person copy-and-pasted something like “Russia started the war” about 10 times across a thread, several times replying to the same person, sometimes other people. Every time, it wasn’t actually directly relevant to the comment they replied to. It’s just an attempt to brute-force shut someone down. ↩︎