After many years, at last I have become sufficiently cantankerous that one egregiously stupid post to c/showerthoughts is enough to make me block someone.
Wait, this isn’t a showerthought. Blocked!
/sBlock who you want. Life is too short to tolerate fools.
As Elvis Costello once famously crooned, ‘Only fools Russian.’
If it’s a 3-hour-old account, I don’t worry about it.
If they have extensive post history and it doesn’t seem awfully toxic, and their modlog doesn’t indicate that this is a habit for them, then I might just assume they’re having a bad day and let it slide this time while hiding the thread.
It usually doesn’t take many repeats of them posting about kids of rich people street racing or a single mother asking about her teenage son’s erections or whatever before I go “this guy again??” At that point I just block them.
If it’s just the main post, I get it. If it continues in the comment replies, it’s more than just a bad day.
I’m not sure, but it feels like a LOT of trolls test the waters of Lemmy by posting their nonsense in this comm.
This is a shower thought?
Can’t remember the last time I saw a shower thought in this community. This is just an opinion community in my eyes.
You didn’t see the one about baths decreasing the available amount of shower thoughts, shower thought?
Is this?
It is ok to protect your healthy mental space by blocking folks. It isn’t a sign of weakness.
I’d even argue that it’s a sign of strength, to be able to recognize behavior that you perceive as toxic and block/avoid wankers who display such behavior.
Blocked
You should block me
You mean the one from the obvious troll account that was obvious?
Dude admitted that he was trolling and intended to do more. An easily earned block.
Context? What dude?
Just a random chud who created an account today to troll and has already been banned. I already forgot his painfully obvious handle.
Oh okay, doesn’t seem like a big deal then.
valid
also what post was it lol
Bye! 🤣
I have been broadening my criteria. Some things are casual conversation and if a person is responding like comments are about something is a statement about the definitive definition of something and its like ugh. im sick of this.
Ah yes, cantankerous, a word I haven’t seen in quite a minute. What are the odds, huh?
100%
You miss 100% of the words you don’t see.
Get off my mind lawn you kids!
