"Block, Mute, Move On" on Dreamwidth
Dec. 10th, 2024 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedesI 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?).
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?).
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Date: 2024-12-11 07:22 pm (UTC)I noticed that there wasn't any sort of blocking feature on DW the way I would like, but all that does is make me put in the extra work to ensure I'm seeing everything I wanna see and not seeing the stuff I don't xD Worse come to worse, I know I can always just hit the bricks if I'm uncomfy with what's being posted in a community or just not interact to begin with!
From what I exprienced so far, folks here have been pretty good about staying in their respective lanes and not being nearly as combative as other sites, which is a nice breath of fresh air!
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Date: 2024-12-15 01:18 am (UTC)Yeah, thankfully I don't feel the need to block someone for, like, being a jerk. I've seen some folks get heated in discussion, but it's all anonymous commenters, which are, of course, easy to disable on your own page.
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Date: 2024-12-15 02:11 am (UTC)