Do you care when people block you?

[idarkphoenixi]

This is actually something that bothers me a little. It doesn't even have to be someone I know personally, it could be someone I just like following.

Sometimes I'll notice my contact list is a little shorter than normal and I figure out who it was that removed me. There's no reason why, and you get no reply back.
Maybe you argue with someone you thought was a friend and they do the same thing. You get over it of course but it still bothers you for a short while.

I just got blocked from a somewhat popular YouTube channel and same thing. It bothers me somewhat because now I can't even respond, I can't ask why and I can't engage with the people I was debating with in the comment section. It's like being silenced right in the middle of a conversation
(The guy running the channel called someone a **** for theoretically buying a newphew who has unreliable internet an Xbone and all I did was call him out on using that language, saying that it's only going to discredit his opinion)

I think mostly it's just a rude gesture in general to block people unless they are very clearly harassing you, or spamming you. At least if I were to be blocked on Escapist it would be because I broke some very clear rule and even then it's only if I'm a repeat offender.

 

[Goofguy]

I'm stubborn as hell so I would kind of be upset if I was blocked because I'd want the last word.

That being said, the Escapist is pretty much the only place on the internet where I let my opinions be known. YouTube is a hive of scum and villainy filled with spammers, trolls and dumbasses. The few, decent commenters are eclipsed by the rogue's gallery of dumb shits.

 

[Pebblig]

Mehh, I suppose it wouldn't really bother me if it happened to me, but to be perfectly honest I regularly do it to other people so I'm not really in a position to be bothered if it did happen. I regularly cull my friends list on Facebook or other sites, or block people outright if they annoy me.

It's mainly 'cos I'm not a huge people person really, and it doesn't really bother me if they notice I've removed them (Probably makes me a bit mean to be honest).

 

[Super Kami Guru]

Never been blocked on Youtube, but then I very rarely comment on videos, arguing on Youtube is really the ultimate form of stupidity.

I've got a blocklist of about 70 people of Facebook, I was getting random threats from friends of the guy my ex cheated on me with and left me for because I called him a **** and a twat on my wall, I think I had good reason to be pissed with him So I blocked this guy's entire friend list, yeah he doesn't have many friends

 

[Zhukov]

Sorry, I can't read your post. You're on my forum ignore list.

Hurr hurr.

...

Ugh. That wasn't even remotely funny.

Anyway, I've never been 'blocked' on anything. Or at least, not that I'm aware of. A few people on this forum have probably stuck me on their ignore lists, but the forum doesn't tell you when that happens.

 

[Foolery]

Not really. It is a trifle upsetting when someone I consider a friend does it. Happened on my steam a few times, over seemingly nothing. That said, I am terrible for keeping in contact with people.

 

[Angie7F]

I dont block people. I just phase them out and delete them permanently.

So I dont mind when people block me. We all have our own reasons and it might just be that they are in a bad place in their lives right now and want to distance themselves from certain people.

 

[piinyouri]

How would I know?

 

[Melon Hunter]

Only if they do it mid-way through a debate, which has happened once or twice. About the height of childishness, if you ask me. The scenario in question was an artist on DA spreading misinformation through their journal that one of the big MLP cons was going to have a NSFW art panel and was asking their watchers to sign a petition to ban said artists from the convention. This news was utterly wrong, you understand. They later released an 'apology' journal that devoted about two-thirds of the word count to self-pity and how everyone who had called them out on it was obviously a horrible, horrible person. When I called them out on that, well... they went apeshit and called me a troll. Because, y'know, anyone who disagrees with you is only out to upset you. I eventually got them to unblock me after getting in touch with them through other channels and explaining further (and using simpler language =P), but yeah, it bugged me that not only did they abuse the power of blocking, they'd also let a small amount of fandom fame go to their heads and started throwing their weight around.

So, really, it only gets to me if it's some content provider trying to shut down dissident voices by abusing blocking powers so they can surround themselves with yes men. The sign of a fragile ego, and one I despise. If it's on an equal level, like in this forum, I really don't care all that much.

 

[Playful Pony]

Well I have no experience with that from YouTube, because I barely ever post in those horrible comment sections... I can see why you'd feel a bit down by being blocked. If I am blocked it annoys me because I like to think of myself as a pretty nice person, and I really want to know what I did to make someone block me! If it is a random person I have never met or really interacted with ,then I simply don't care. I also don't go around flailing my arms if someone doesn't accept my random friends request... You may notice (if you check my profile) that I have basically no friends on The Escapist X3. Thats because I don't like to friend peopel that I'm not actually interacting with! I want to talk to the people on my friends list, but it seems others just want to friend me in order to increase the number of people in a completely unimportant list. Some people will send me friends requests that I have never talked to, or even seen a comment from. I WOULD like to be friends with you, but please send me a PM first and lets talk a bit! =3

 

[The Wykydtron]

Well people really have no reason to block me ever. I'm just a super nice and totally funny guy

I mean some people on my XBL friends list removed me but that would be because we never once spoke or played with each other ever and they felt like going on a purge. That's perfectly acceptable.

The ONE guy who I am so sure blocked me totally had reason to because I was sick of him playing Yu in P4A (I was playing all my subs, have some decency and use yours ) so I switched to Yu myself and SPAMMED NOTHING BUT INFERNO DIVIDER.

I almost won too. He called me out on it right after and to be fair I was in an uncharacteristically unforgiving dick mood at the time.

Told him I was roleplaying Ragna. He didn't take the joke very well...

 

[omegaweopon]

I arise to the sun, and put on a mildly pink bathrobe. Sipping my morning champagne out of a wine glass four times as long as it needs to be I enter my jacuzzi tub, and let the next hour wash over me, and read a newspaper. It doesn't matter to me that it is getting soggy. I already read the news in it yesterday. On the internet. I step out, and enjoy a cookie, grab a mug of coffee, and ask the most important question of my day.

I'm awesome. Who am I going to piss off today. So I begin plotting, and planning. Working on a ploy that will get millions to gather me hate. All with the one goal in mind. I can't wait to get blocked.

No but seriously, I lack those things. I don't really much care, as I lack the above mentality, it means that someone dislikes my opinions and doesn't want to hear them. I can be brash, I can be rude at times. I can go a bit overboard, as I have no concept of "polite company". And you know, that's going to happen. There's nothing I can do about it. So why worry? Block me all you want. It's not going to affect me.

 

[Comocat]

At the end of the day, does it really matter if some dude named Comocat or Happyfish does not want to hear your opinion? It might have upset me at some point, but now I consider the perspective that I really don't care what an anonymous stranger on the internet thinks of me, especially if its in an MMO where they are RP a nightelf or whatever.

Heck I block people for obnoxious multi-quotes.

"Quote"

Yes

"Quote"

Read again

"Quote"

Citation needed

aaghghgh it drives me nuts. Just write a coherent argument man. Come on!

 

[Longstreet]

I don't get blocked that often.

Never happened to me on youtube since i usually don't comment in that cluster fuck.

One girl blocked me on msn / facebook that i know off since i liked her back then. Just shrugged it off and moved on.

Sometimes i see my FB friends list is one shorter, i usually spend one quick scroll down the list to see if i might figure out who it was, but then i quickly move on to something else and don't look back. If i actually do find out who removed me it is usually someone i don't give a fuck about and can't really care.

On the escapist i don't got a clue.

 

[Lionsfan]

How would I know?

On The Escapist you don't know when someone has ignored you, probably to decrease flaming, since I believe you can still message people who have ignored you. It just blocks their posts from immediately showing on topics

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

It's like Groucho used to say, "I wouldn't want to join a club that accepts members like me". If somebody wants to block me, why would I want to talk to that person?

 

[Headsprouter]

Well, blocking when offense was not the person's aim is more like leaving them in the dark. It's dangerous, because someone could make a mistake, and rather than questioning it any way you could just block them instantly. That way, you'll never understand and neither will the person who blocked you.

It's important to know where you went wrong in something. I think blocking is only necessary when intent is clear and the person has been a repeated source of deliberate issues for you. You need to be sure of their bad nature. If you tell a person where they went wrong and give them a chance or two afterward not to make the same mistake again and they break it, block away.

I've been blocked by a person for (apparently) screwing up on the meaning of a single word. We should note it was, indeed a pretty massive pratfall. Now I wouldn't have known this, hadn't I been told through friends, since the person decided not to tell me. I totally get why they were offended, the word was totally innapropriate, but I am just as offended that I wasn't given any benefit of the doubt. The word was so innapropriate to describe a five-year friendship that there's no way I would have used it with full knowledge of it's meaning, without being some form of imbecile or attatchment-phobe. The implication is that that is what the person always thought of me and that was what I had made clear about myself. Kinda hurts...a lot.
There was other things which could have offended them, but by what they had said to my friends and during the last conversation I had with them, they had no issues with those things.

Bottom line, you have to be sure. Removing someone because you hadn't talked to them in years is fine, unless people are too sensitive, they'll get it, but if it was someone you spent a lot of time with before the block, unless the relationship was clearly one-sided or abusive, it's risky business. Me? I've never blocked anyone. If I want distance, or a break, I'll just let you know. And I've only ever tried to do that once.

EDIT: I should probably add; I've only ever been blocked by the person in the aforementioned scenario. I never have bad beef with anyone but them, notably. I use that to reassure myself I'm not a bad guy, but...

 

[Something Amyss]

Not usually, though there have been instances.

I should point out I rarely reciprocate, though. There are a couple of very specific boards where I have long block lists because of the nature of the site or the demeanor of its posters, but most places, I just don't care enough. On Facebook, I've only ever deleted two people; one for hate speech. The other one pissed me off not quite to that level.

When people block me, I tend to know why. Either I'm being a dick, or they are.

On The Escapist you don't know when someone has ignored you, probably to decrease flaming, since I believe you can still message people who have ignored you. It just blocks their posts from immediately showing on topics

If you can message people who have blocked you, it doesn't show up for them in their inbox. I had one person harassing me a while back where enforcement seemed to do nothing. I blocked them and no more messages.

I don't know if this is because they can't send or I can't see, however. For all I know, the same person's been spamming me with PMs for aaaaages.

 

[Frankster]

Being the sensitive soul I am, i used to be a little hurt when id be blocked thinking it was reflective of my personality, or perhps lack of personality, or perhaps im just not interesting enough to keep contact with.

But playing league of legends enough and having people insult me for all sorts of reasons and threatening to block and report me is making me see people can just be idiots and block/report/ignore you for all sorts of reasons that have little to do with me. And ive become more selective with my friends list as ive removed facebook "friends" i simply dont talk to and come to think of it, didnt even like in the first place but felt had to add them cos they were in my school or something. Im much happier as a result. As for the escapist... Dunno if ive been blocked by anybody, probably said something at some point which someone didnt like so its likely, but tough potatoes i guess. Ive blocked 1 or 2 peeps myself as i simply don't enjoy their posting style but this is rather rare.

So care less now.

 

[Quaxar]

Sometimes I wonder if anyone on here has blocked me. So if you have done so please tell me right now!
... I don't expect many notifications either way.