Seriously what's that idea?
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I'd call what you're describing "muting" rather than blocking.
I used to agree with you, but then I spoke with some people from persecuted minorities, and this style of blocking just gives power to their abusers rather than keeping their communities and themselves safe.
Yes they can get a new account, but it's another hurdle, and if we erect enough hurdles then it'll catch enough of them. Defense in depth.
wrote last edited by [email protected]We've seen the problems with Reddit's style of blocking already.
If someone's being truly abusive, that's something you should report to moderators or instance admins.
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It being broken over there doesn't make it not broken over here.
Report is good, but why should I have to let other people read my content? Why is this a hill you want to die on?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Report is good, but why should I have to let other people read my content? Why is this a hill you want to die on?
Why should you have to let other people read what you post on a public site?! Is that really the hill you want to die on?
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Oh god, did Lemmy turn into a libertarian hellscape while I wasn't looking?
What are your opinions on community bans, since all your arguments apply equally to those. Let me see you rectify those positions.
When did an appreciation for free speech become the exclusive domain of the Libertarians? I don't want you to be able to unilaterally silence me, therefore I'm a Libertarian?
What are your opinions on community bans, since all your arguments apply equally to those. Let me see you rectify those positions.
Community bans are the domain of a select few individuals who are responsible for maintaining the overall state of the community. If they abuse their power then the community suffers and people should go elsewhere.
Personally, I'd rather a system where one could "subscribe" to specific moderators so that if one goes rogue people could choose to unsubscribe from their moderation actions, that would IMO be the best combination of freedom and control. But I can understand that being rather complicated to implement well and perhaps a little confusing for the users, so I'm okay with the current setup as a compromise.
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It being broken over there doesn't make it not broken over here.
Report is good, but why should I have to let other people read my content? Why is this a hill you want to die on?
It being broken over there doesn't make it not broken over here.
It being different over here is what makes it not broken over here. The effects that makes Reddit's block system suck so badly are not present here.
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If I block them, I want to stop them from engaging with me.
I don't want to let them continue to engage with me and other people in my comments, but just lose my ability to see what they're saying about me.
That's like saying the purpose of a locked door isn't to keep people out, it's to prevent you from seeing what they're doing in your house
If I block them, I want to stop them from engaging with me.
That's exactly what happens. They can no longer engage with YOU because YOU no longer see THEM.
It's a curtain, not a door.
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You want to at the click of a button stop everyone from reading something you don't want to see. If you dislike reading a persons comments, then you can block them and no longer see what they write. If you are being harassed you can report it, but what you want to do is police other users as a regular user.
You are also making the "won't someone think of the children" argument as your (so far) only point.
This is a place of public discourse, what you want can be achieved using a txt editor and a friend.
"won't someone think of the children" isn't always wrong.
What's absolutely crazy to me is that you say "blocking won't work because they can get a new account" and then in the very same breath suggest that reporting is a viable strategy. Either it is or it isn't, which is it?
Public/private discourse is a false dichotomy. What are your thoughts on a community's ability to ban someone? Should groups lose that ability, since apparently it's both ineffective and toxic, apparently?
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I agree it has problems, but that doesn't mean that anything is better.
Reporting someone is good, but isn't that subject to the exact same reasons why "it won't work"? If reddit style blocking someone isn't effective anyways, why would admin bans be effective?
This assumes that admins and mods even have the capacity to deal with all this shit, which seems to be very uncertain. -
You just have to enable it in your client, presuming your instance supports it.
On Voyager it’s in Settings -> Appearance -> Other -> Display Votes -> Separate.
I think they might have meant the identity of the voter, not just the specific number, but this one’s a great feature as well
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Well multi accounting is the next problem...
Just live an unpeacefull live then...Multi-accounting is a feature, not a problem. Any "solution" I can think of to it would lead to far worse consequences than whatever you're imagining.
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I'd call that "muting" rather than blocking.
And it leaves vulnerable communities open to abuse, because they're unable to police their communities and kick out harassers.
Moderators are still able to ban people from communities.
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Wtf does that even mean?
Ok, lets walk though this. You have spoke with people from marginalized communities that get regularly harassed, correct?
Then please explain it to us the way it was explained to you. After all it convinced you about the value in speech control, a very high bar for most rational people to overcome.
But here is the thing, you have not. You have just stated over and over that this is a needed feature to "protect" marginalized groups. You have not even hinted at the group (hell it could be that its some hexbear talking point or that there is no group at all). And no, naming a marginalized group who sees regular harassment is not an issue, unless the group in question's very existence is offensive. Although there are a lot of nuances between what is and is not offensive, there are still some clear lines (think about say furries being ok vs the man boy love association being not ok).
Also criticism is not harassment, if you feel you are being harassed then use the report button. But don't get upset if not everyone else agrees with you.
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They shouldn't be able to do that!
How the Threadiverse works today --- blocking hides content from blocked users, but doesn't affect their ability to comment --- is how Reddit originally worked, and I think that it was by far a better system.
Reddit only adopted the "you can't reply to a comment from someone who has blocked you" system later. What it produced was people getting into fights, adding one more comment, and then blocking the other person so that they'd be unable to respond, so it looked like the other person had conceded the point.
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You just have to enable it in your client, presuming your instance supports it.
On Voyager it’s in Settings -> Appearance -> Other -> Display Votes -> Separate.
What I mean is that I would like to see the usernames of everyone who downvoted.
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I agree it has problems, but that doesn't mean that anything is better.
Reporting someone is good, but isn't that subject to the exact same reasons why "it won't work"? If reddit style blocking someone isn't effective anyways, why would admin bans be effective?
This assumes that admins and mods even have the capacity to deal with all this shit, which seems to be very uncertain.I don't understand what you mean. Moderator bans do work, that's a moderator's job.
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Report is good, but why should I have to let other people read my content? Why is this a hill you want to die on?
Why should you have to let other people read what you post on a public site?! Is that really the hill you want to die on?
Yes, it is.
Because it's my content.
Because it's not just a public site, public/private is a false dichotomy.
Because social networks need to provide effective anti-harassment tools, and if admins/mods are too overworked then that needs to be self-serviced.Defederation exists
Instance bans exist
Community bans exist
Why are all of those good, but individual bans aren't?
Why are all of those effective (at least partially), but not for individuals?
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"won't someone think of the children" isn't always wrong.
What's absolutely crazy to me is that you say "blocking won't work because they can get a new account" and then in the very same breath suggest that reporting is a viable strategy. Either it is or it isn't, which is it?
Public/private discourse is a false dichotomy. What are your thoughts on a community's ability to ban someone? Should groups lose that ability, since apparently it's both ineffective and toxic, apparently?
“won’t someone think of the children” isn’t always wrong.
It is always wrong to frame an argument in this fashion, its a emotional ploy for a weak argument. Instead use a better line of reasoning.
What’s absolutely crazy to me is that you say “blocking won’t work because they can get a new account” and then in the very same breath suggest that reporting is a viable strategy. Either it is or it isn’t, which is it?
I never said that, likely you have me confused with someone else.
Public/private discourse is a false dichotomy. What are your thoughts on a community’s ability to ban someone? Should groups lose that ability, since apparently it’s both ineffective and toxic, apparently?
Mod log exists for this reason and communities are often defederated for abusing this power. And I have made no comment on the effectiveness or toxicity of mod powers. You sound like you want to be a mod but the worst kind of biased one.
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When did an appreciation for free speech become the exclusive domain of the Libertarians? I don't want you to be able to unilaterally silence me, therefore I'm a Libertarian?
Minor nitpick with your comment: there's a semantic difference between "Libertarian" and "libertarian", and I suspect you want the latter.
Small-l "libertarian" is used to refer to the political ideology.
Big-L "Libertarian" is used to refer to the Libertarian Party.
The same sort of convention also shows up elsewhere, like "democrat" and "Democrat", "republican" and "Republican", etc.
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Easier job to do when you're actually getting reports.
- Reporting = this breaks the rules please moderate
- Blocking = Fuck them, even if they rechnicly abide by the rules I don't want them near me
- Muting = I don't want to see what this person does but don't want to hurt them beyond that
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How is "not letting you see what I personally wrote" consider to be "unilaterally silencing you" ?
What a mind bogglingly disingenuous response.I'm not saying that the reddit style block is good.
I'm saying that the current "mute" style block hangs vulnerable people out to dry.I'm ok trying something else, like maybe what you suggested.
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Yes, it is.
Because it's my content.
Because it's not just a public site, public/private is a false dichotomy.
Because social networks need to provide effective anti-harassment tools, and if admins/mods are too overworked then that needs to be self-serviced.Defederation exists
Instance bans exist
Community bans exist
Why are all of those good, but individual bans aren't?
Why are all of those effective (at least partially), but not for individuals?
Or is the argument that all of those should be disposed of, too?No, it is not.
Because as soon as you post, it is not your content.
Because it is a site build around public discourse, there is no dichotomy here let alone a false one.
Because there are anti-harassment tools in place, you just want a new way to harass.Defederation exists
Instance bans exist
Community bans exist
Why are all of those good, but individual bans aren’t?
Why are all of those effective (at least partially), but not for individuals?
Or is the argument that all of those should be disposed of, too?
Because they are not done by end users in a vacuum. You can go and make your own instance and do all of these things, and are encouraged to do so.
