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I'm just middle aged and lost all energy for unproductive discussions. The second another poster posts something genuinely hostile, like "touch grass" kinda shit, I'm just done talking. Also if we're six comments in and the other guy won't even admit to being wrong to the thing he said on comment one, despite me doing twenty minutes of research to prove conclusively that he's wrong, I don't want to waste another second of my life on him.

I gotta have 10% of the "disengage" comments on this site.

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[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (16 children)

At least on this site, there's so many times its the same miserable poster being overly hostile for no reason, there's no point in engaging

I block people all the time for being kinda annoying or unfunny or hostile to others and don't think twice about it

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (10 children)

It feels like Hexbear is warmer than other places on social media. But I have this habit of scrolling past long comment chains, so maybe I'm just missing it.

Does blocking prevent the other person from seeing and replying to you? Or does it just stop you from seeing them? Thanks.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thanks. I guess I'd like them to not be able to reply to me, but not seeing them is pretty good too.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah it would be nice if it went both ways.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I dont think they can reply to you, I've blocked someone for being overly hostile in an argument and they couldn't reply to me

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I've blocked a bunch of people and sometimes I see I have replies I can't see. I checked the comment chain while logged out and it was someone I'd blocked, so they can still reply sometimes at least

[–] bumpusoot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Blocked people have replied to me in the past. It definitely only half-stops you seeing their posts.

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