#we appreciate you guys who keep letting us know which errors and shit you're getting

[shiftythrifting]

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[killian-whump]

As someone who blocks unapologetically, I think saying that blocking means you're just intolerant of differing opinions is simplifying. I'm good with different interpretations of fiction (within reason ofc, miss me with the over the top kind of hate for my pirate, rumple, emma eyc, the demonizing, lying kind) and fandom, but I'm a big advocate of curating your fandom experience, and sometimes there's just people you don't want to see, on your dash or on your content, and blocking is an easy fix.

Sorry you’re feeling down, sweets. It might not have been without cause, though. That’s not me accusing you of anything, it’s just that going off my own habits, even the smallest thing can be cause to block. A single comment, how someone interacts with posts, tags my content, anything really. I block at the drop of a hat, for some admittedly stupid reasons, and at least from my pov, I can think the person is lovely in all other ways, but if there’s even a pinprick of an urge to block, I do.

(Putting these two Asks together, because they’re similar and my responses to them would be similar, not because I think they’re from the same Nonny.)

I just don’t know, really. I get blocking/muting on Twitter, because it’s a wholly different platform that’s so much more of a dumpster fire full of people getting up in your business on purpose and just being heinous hosebeasts, but…

On this site, I just don’t get blocking people unless they’re actually harassing you in some way, shape or form. For starters, blocking them doesn’t actually get rid of them? I block in reciprocation, and it does shit to keep a person’s posts off of my dashboard. I still have to use a filter if I want to actually stop seeing their posts (and I DO, because it’s so fucking annoying seeing content you want to reblog and then getting that fucking error message).

Which, speaking of… you can use those filters without blocking the individual at all. In fact, they work better than blocking someone, if your main goal is curating the content you see on your dash.

Really, the only thing blocking achieves is not letting someone reblog or comment on your content. Now, I can absolutely see the necessity of doing that if someone is leaving nasty comments, hijacking your posts or tagging things in obviously offensive ways. Those seem like obvious blockable offenses, as would someone you’ve asked politely not to interact with your posts in a specific way refusing to abide by that request.

Ah, but therein lies the problem for me. People on this site leap-frog RIGHT over any attempt to actually address their issues with someone in favor of just removing them from their tumblr experience entirely. Everyone goes on and on about tolerance and diversity, while they basically just erase everyone and anyone who doesn’t act, speak or think the way they like people to. And they feel entitled to do this without any explanation or attempt to resolve their issues with others before bringing things to that point.

I find it cowardly, honestly. Yeah, it might take a hot minute and feel a little awkward to shoot someone a “Heeeeeey, could you stop putting Spongebob quotes on my GIF sets?” or even a “We clearly don’t see eye to eye, so maybe we should just steer clear of each others’ posts” message, but at least you’re treating the other person like a person and not like an uncontrollable troll you’ve decided to eradicate once and for all.

I also feel like all of this goes ten-fold for content creators. I think if you’re creating content for a community or fandom, you should create it for the whole community - not only those you personally like and approve of. Content creators who block indiscriminately end up creating a kind of paywall to their content that’s not based on payment, but based on the creator’s idea of who is worthy of consuming their content and who isn’t. I don’t like that.

So while I do appreciate seeing explanations for this behavior from some folks who engage in it (and I do hope I don’t ever get blocked by either of you guys, whoever you are, but I’m not about to toe some invisible, unknown line for fear of it), I remain unmoved in my opinions on this. I don’t think blocking people should be done as the first response to someone annoying you. I think it should be the last resort, done only when someone proves themselves unwilling or unable to control themselves from interacting with you in ways you don’t like.

…or done reciprocally, so people who have decided you shouldn’t be able to enjoy their content don’t have access to yours. Hey, I believe in civil discourse, but I never said I ain’t a petty bitch :P

P.S. don’t block me tho