#anyways it would actually be nice if tumblr got a whole proper blocking function but we still dont have that yet
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🔥: This one is really just a personal peeve, but people who look for other people to block in the rpc are uncomfy af to me. Like, I just don’t think anyone has any reason to scoot around the rpc blocking random people they’ve never interacted with before & who are otherwise not doing any type of harm or posting any kind of “harmful” content & couldn’t really be bothering them in any way.
LIKE its fair to make an exception to this if the blockee is close to / interacting with someone who is “problematic” or who has done harm to the blocker, but they really should AT�� LEAST avoid treating the blockee like someone who is out to get them personally when they’re no where near them & probably don’t even know about anything the person they’re interacting with did, nor is it likely that they condone it or would patriciate in it themselves.
But people are def the weird to me when they stumble upon someone else’s blog & feel the need to block them because of nothing. Like the people that get upset when they see someone who seems to have more rp partners, threads, friends, ships, nicer graphics, more complex hcs, etc than them. ( WHICH IMO, I really think feels red-flaggy. I remember when people used to go BATSHIT at people for having “high-follower” counts & that was ugly ass envy & imo a lot of the time so is this. )
This is super common with dupes because ““dupe anxiety”” but its also taken off just as a general conduct thing & I really hate it, imo. I think its really not suited for something that is meant to be a community environment / experience. There is nothing more awkward than stumbling upon a random person in your fandom who has you hard-blocked for no noticeable reason. Like sure its their “”right””, but its my right to think thats weird & probably unnecessary. Like, I can’t imagine being that pressed by the existence of someone who has done nothing to me. Like if your mental health is so negatively impacted by the perceived success of a total stranger who is not doing a single thing wrong, let alone doing anything toward you, it feels like maybe a community environment isn’t the most suited for people who have those kind of issues ?
& I’m sorry but MOREOVER, 9 times out of 10 when people are feeling the “need” to be blocking other rpers who don’t engage with them, they don’t just stop at blocking. That need is coming from a weird place so not everyone is content with “blocking” someone & going about their day. They gotta be looking for reasons to justify their “feelings” & if they can’t find or twist things to make reasons they’ll just make them up cos that feels better to a lot of people than simply acknowledging that have jealousy issues & managing themselves. Because honestly blocking rarely ever solves this type of “”issue”” in the first place because there's not really anything blocking can do to someone who doesn’t follow / interact with you. Literally nothing, tbh. The only thing blocking does is stop someone from following you & removes their ability to contact you on the blog you blocked. How does that solve anything if the person doesn’t talk to you & doesn’t follow you in the first place, its really the stupidest thing when you actually think about it & to insist to everyone who finds this behaviour off putting that there is rarely hostile or shady motives behind it just feels a little gaslight-y to me with all that in consideration. ( & completely contrary to my lived experience with this type of thing, hence my problem with it. )
This works fine in normal fandom environments, by the way. Like for example you’re blocking someone because you’re sick of seeing their flaming hot-takes or awkward headcanons in your fandom / character / ship tags. You don’t have to have ever followed or interacted with that person for blocking them to have benefits for you in that respect because you’re encountering them in a very public place. But rp is totally different. We USUALLY don’t post ourselves in fandom tags. We usually don't try to exist in public places from the get-go. We’re all kind of restricted to our little communities were you’re probably not gonna be seeing much of someone if you’re not following them, least of all their “opinions” or “headcanons” or “ships”, that might rub you wrong, unless you are actively visiting their blog & looking at their content directly. You’re only gonna see them on your dash if your rp partners are writing with them & blocking will not solve that. Filters solve that. Filtering out the URLs should be where it ends. It doesn’t give any hostile, discouraging (even if unintentional) signals to anyone who doesn't deserve them & preserves the community spirit. But thats just my opinion on that, heavily influenced by unpleasant experiences.
#⊰ ° ‧: 。* ⚘ 💀 ━◞ From The Mun ⊱#unpopular opinion meme cw#anyways it would actually be nice if tumblr got a whole proper blocking function but we still dont have that yet#so blocking doesnt really do what a lot of people like to pretend it does!#and it is almost completely useless on people who dont follow / interact with you#just makes things weird / uncomfy if they ever notice the block#which tumblr actually rats you out now bc if you interact with the same people the person youre blocking only has#to try interact with the same mutuals post as you to know youre a hater its real awkward
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