"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 10:02 pm (UTC)so sadly i don't think blocking applies to DW and other LJ-clones (even tho i'm not sure how many are active?). i notice like what i'm told of LJ, ppl tend to just be in their own bubbles on their journal and just warn for their content/boundaries, and you just don't interact otherwise. i do wish a way to block ppl entirely was added, as much as i want the LJ format preserved on here, even forums i used pre-tumblr had a blocking feature that hid user's posts or disallowed them from PMing you. DW blocker isn't the same since it's mainly used for anon comms like FFA, and those are closer to twitter-but-anonymous instead of more personal journal spaces :(
- DW lurker nonnie
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Date: 2024-12-15 01:22 am (UTC)Woof, I'd nearly forgotten about FFA being on here. Talk about "Twitter but anonymous" -- it even has the same rancid toxicity, lol.
But, yeah, the reason why I think this worked better for LJ is because it was way more active. If someone was posting upsetting fic in one community, you could just leave it and join another, and have it be equally as active. On DW, not so much, sadly.