"Block, Mute, Move On" on Dreamwidth

[bedes]

I see a lot of folks saying that they "block/mute and move on". Which is a good practice, and this post is not about knocking it. Instead it's asking, how exactly does one do that on Dreamwidth?

Per my understanding, there is no "blocking" on Dreamwidth. There's only banning someone from your account. Banning someone from your account doesn't, however, prevent the user from commenting on your community posts, prevent you from seeing their comments, nor does it even prevent you from seeing their posts from the communities you subscribe to. You can block anonymous comments, and enable selective comment screening, but, per my understanding, that's about it.

Is everyone and their mother just using the Dreamwidth Blocker Userscript, like myself? Or are there some other trick(s) that I don't know of?

(At the risk of going on a tangent: I know that it's a leftover from Livejournal, but the complete inability to preen your feed experience via blocking or muting someone is a serious turn-off for me. I really like Dreamwidth otherwise, but when "block and move on" and "curate your experience" has become, like, some of the core tenants of fandom, it's really annoying. I shouldn't need to download an extension that only sometimes works, just to not see upsetting darkfic on my feed. Because it's my feed! Let me remove the things I don't want to be there! Aarrrgh!!)

A longer post about The Current Events is in the works, and is gonna be published hopefully later today, but I just wanted to ask this question (and complain a little bit, because what are journals for if not that?).

Comments

[bitflip]

well im not big into the "block and move on" thing (i come from forums where, as far as i know, blocking ppl wasnt A thing? so i never got the habit and now its hard to get me into it i guess? + a hint of maybe irrational ideation about it) i do more of a just "ignore and run away now" but anyway i do not like to mingle much in Outward Fandom so that is maybe easier for me

since communities of any sort i suppose will always be hard to curate (and i easily get overwhelmed when i see more than like, 2 posts), i dont follow any here or elsewhere, or keep them very separate from my daily experience and only peek when i feel brave

[bedes]

I totally get that! I do think that blocking not being much of a thing on forums depends on what forums you frequented, though. Most of the ones I was/am on all have a blocking function which see quite regular use, and which I see people regularly talking about using. Others have a blocking function but are on sites with no blocking culture. I think the differences in that sort of thing, from forum to forum and site to site, are interesting

[bitflip]

I was on FANDOM wiki back when it had forums instead of the weird discussion boards it has now. Im prettttyyy sure it has no individual blocking feature - not super sure how itd work, any way - only that admins and such could block and ban people for infringing rules such as vandalizing others pages, spam or being mean, etc.. since all messages are public this is easier. I really miss old FANDOM wikis !! They used to be GOOD!

Maybe my memory fails me and there may be a blocking feature, but a little search doesnt really say anything of it.

[bedes]

Yo, you’re telling me that FANDOM… used to be GOOD? Holy moly. (God I miss forums…) (Okay I know they’re still around, but God I miss when there were lots and lots of active ones!!)

There isn’t a blocking feature on FANDOM — I cracked open my old account to check. That feels odd to me, just like it feels odd that Dreamwidth doesn’t have one. I’ve seen some discussion boards get HEATED.

[bitflip]

YUP!! It was good! And I'm saying this even if I came to it at the beginning of its "downfall" (when it changed name from Wikia to FANDOM about 2016) – somewhere in 2019 or so was when things really got bad, for me it pretty much began to rot after the forums of the wikis were changed to discussion boards for some reason (Sounds like the same thing, but it looks and works a bit different – and the old forum threads were all deleted, so A LOT of people lost a TREMENDOUS BUNCH of discussions and roleplays) from then on it began to fill with ads and then the weird AI thing etc.

I dont even remember it havibg ads back then like woah.

Anyway ahhh i miss the old days. It also had this thing on people's profiles where you could see what other wikis they were in!! I loved fandom so muchhh ::(