As we start to see more users join, it’s inevitable to see trolls (especially low-effort trolls) making more of an appearance and trying to be controversial and noticed.
Best just to scroll past them. They want to spark unwinnable arguments and rack up negative rep. If something seems absurdly ridiculous or inciteful, just move on. It’s not even worth down voting.
@drumdonuttea Is it possible to block individual users?
You can block them on kbin, but just be aware that if they reply to you or your post, you’ll still get a notification of it. You won’t be able to see their comment on the page it was posted to you, but it will be sitting in your notifications until you clear all them, since you can’t get rid of individual ones.
And they can also still see your comments after you blocked them, at least in my experience. Blocking people is not too useful right now because of that IMO.
This is why I’ve generally been trying my best not to engage with the obvious trolls and bigots at all (not even downvote) but instead just block and move on. They don’t become aware of me, and I no longer see them. Not perfect yet (the block going both ways would go a big way towards that), but it works ok for now.
I mean I would still report them depending on severity but yeah that’s of course also a way to do it. I’d absolutely love to see block becoming 2-ways instead of peekaboo.
Oh yeah, I’ll still try to remember to report if I see they’re on one of the big instances I already recognise, but otherwise I might not in case the report just goes right back to them (like it did with the exploding people) in which case I’m not exactly sure what to do other than post a warning, but I’m rarely the first to notice this kind of behaviour, nor do I really want that kind of spotlight, so I might not be comfortable doing a public announcement about it.
Edit: though I’ll admit, I do often block people for things others might not consider as problematic, and feel like if I reported in those situations I’d just get ignored (and if the report goes to the wrong kind of person, potentially targeted for being “too sensitive” or whatever) which is why I’ll often keep it to myself.
That’s what I mean by severity if you’re blocking people for mundane reasons there’s of course not always a need to report.
By the way, as far as I personally know (because I asked this myself), if you report someone from exploding heads for example from this instance the report should go to ernest.
In case I explained it badly read this comment from user Kichae
Thanks, I’ll give that a read!
E: oh, and it’s not the mundane blocks I mean, it’s stuff like casual sexism or ableism that some might not consider “serious”, but that’s a whole other conversation for another time haha
Oh now I understand what you meant, no I consider both to be bad. Both don’t belong here, as well as any other -ism with bad intent. I believe that at the moment reporting the really serious stuff is the important thing to do and as the site grows, and we get more moderators so we don’t overload 1-2 people with reports, I wouldn’t see any reason not to report the less “serious” stuff.
Users can absolutely be blocked, and at least on kbin you can also block instances and magazines as a whole as well