"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

[kissed]

Thanks for sharing the userscript! I figured there would have been a solution elsewhere for this but never bothered to look. I always figured DW had other things they were prioritizing, but it feels so daunting when you want to not look at certain things or be subjected to them here and there's no... easy way to. Shouldn't have to download something else to make it easier, it should already be accessible. (and I don't want to mow down DW, as they're doing important work, but still...)

I feel like DW is less combative to lessen the need to block and move on compared to Twitter but doesn't mean it still isn't needed, of course.

Also i.e. communities most of them are basically unmoderated now with inactive accounts so there's no regulation as to posts on there which has always bothered me. I wish there was a system to fix that too...

[bedes]

I feel like Dreamwidth could use a similar "community adoption from dead accounts" feature as Pillowfort has. Pillowfort used to have the same problem with dead accounts moderating communities, so I feel like using similar solution could be possible.