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Blocking people based on rumors?
10 years ago
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It's a little annoying, but I find myself being blocked by people I have never once met in my life. Random artists or people who post lots of art, I just go faving stuff and suddenly "Hey, You're blocked so you can't fav this!".
I don't think it's right to block someone you know nothing about. Sure, maybe if one of your good friends says "Hey, this guy's a douche" but even if one of my good or close friends told me this, I wouldn't block someone before they were a douche to me too. In fact, I don't really block people unless it becomes necessary, I just delete them and if they then continue bothering me, I block. But that's beside the point. Don't block people based on the local rumors that are going around! It makes you look foolish and hurts the person you blocked because they have no clue why they are blocked, what rumor people are claiming about them, or other such reasons.
So, if someone decides they want to block me before they even get to know me, I can only assume they are the bad one, not me. From this point on that is what I assume and it means I've done nothing wrong whatsoever. Because I haven't. I have done nothing to deserve being randomly blocked by random people I don't even know.
I felt like ranting a bit about this because it's stupid and annoying. Like FA administration decided to add this "you can't fav this if you're blocked" thing to stir up drama even more exactly like this post. Instead of actually doing the intelligent thing (which they never do) and just add a fav timer so you can't fav/unfav something repeatedly, and setting it so that multiple favs of the same item over a short period of time are clumped together into one group so it shows up as one item instead of "This user faved this thing 5 times so we'll display it 5 times". (That's only just in case connection issues like mine and you clicked fav twice and it somehow unfaved it at the same time. There are still solutions that don't involve blocking users from faving from artists that have you blocked for literally no reason whatsoever.)
I don't think it's right to block someone you know nothing about. Sure, maybe if one of your good friends says "Hey, this guy's a douche" but even if one of my good or close friends told me this, I wouldn't block someone before they were a douche to me too. In fact, I don't really block people unless it becomes necessary, I just delete them and if they then continue bothering me, I block. But that's beside the point. Don't block people based on the local rumors that are going around! It makes you look foolish and hurts the person you blocked because they have no clue why they are blocked, what rumor people are claiming about them, or other such reasons.
So, if someone decides they want to block me before they even get to know me, I can only assume they are the bad one, not me. From this point on that is what I assume and it means I've done nothing wrong whatsoever. Because I haven't. I have done nothing to deserve being randomly blocked by random people I don't even know.
I felt like ranting a bit about this because it's stupid and annoying. Like FA administration decided to add this "you can't fav this if you're blocked" thing to stir up drama even more exactly like this post. Instead of actually doing the intelligent thing (which they never do) and just add a fav timer so you can't fav/unfav something repeatedly, and setting it so that multiple favs of the same item over a short period of time are clumped together into one group so it shows up as one item instead of "This user faved this thing 5 times so we'll display it 5 times". (That's only just in case connection issues like mine and you clicked fav twice and it somehow unfaved it at the same time. There are still solutions that don't involve blocking users from faving from artists that have you blocked for literally no reason whatsoever.)
Also, it's the Furry Fandom: it doesn't matter how features are coded - they will always incite dramma anyway! :P
One person could say some rumor like "Oh he might have slept with a dog once a long time ago" and 3 people down the line the rumor is "Oh he sleeps with dogs" and 3 more people down the line "Oh he sleeps with animals all the time" and 3 more people down the line "Oh he rapes animals".
Then, for some reason I have people treating me like an animal rapist! (Note, this is just an example, only thing I could think of. :P)
That's the problem I have with it, is people start rumors, and eventually they'll get distorted and get worse and worse until people treat me like a murdering lunatic psychopath just because one day with one person who told me his grandmother died and I couldn't express any sort of emotion at the time because I didn't know what I was supposed to say or feel decided to tell other people about it.
Just blocking for the sake of denying the opinion of someone else is dumb
I don't do it, I rarely have more than one person on my block list, and he knows why he's there.