Do you care when people block you?

[EeveeElectro]

Not really. If someone has, it's because we don't like each other and I've probably blocked them first.
Although there was a guy I was really good friends with, we got on well and he was really funny. As far as I'm aware I did nothing to upset him, but he removed me. That made me sad because I liked him and I was confused as to what I did. I think it may be because I insulted one of his friends but he was joining in on the insulting :c

A few weeks ago I went to visit my old friend from school and she said one of her old best friends suddenly turned on her and started calling her a ***** for no reason. She removed me because we're good friends and every other mutual friend. Removing someone just because you don't like their mates is the epitome of childishness but I do know some very pathetic people.
It didn't bother me, it took me about 2 weeks to realise she was gone

 

[Scarim Coral]

Depending (I can't be annoyed about it seeing how I had block a couple of people in the past) who but chance are the people who blocked me are probably someone I didn't care about in the first place.

 

[Quellan Thyde]

I've been blocked about twenty or so times that I know about. Of those blockings, only two came from people I actually cared about. We still communicate by other means, so the loss was minimal at best.

 

[KeyMaster45]

(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)

Oh oh oh, I know the answer to this one.

8. There are no real rules about posting
9. There are no real rules about moderation either - enjoy your ban

Your first mistake was having a conversation with anyone on YouTube. Consider your new inability to carry on that conversation with that guy an opportunity to break from that addiction.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I wouldn't know, I've never been blocked by anyone, because I'm a nice guy.

Theoretically, it would depend on who blocked me.
If it's some fool I barely know, I wouldn't give a damn, but if it was a good friend, I'd be pretty hurt.

 

[Phrozenflame500]

IMO blocking somebody on YouTube is rather pointless. Really attempting to moderate the comments at all is an exercise in futility.

My philosophy with YouTube comments is that they're pointless, unimportant and somewhat disgusting things that people call you out for censorship when you remove. So why not just ignore them and let the babies have their bottles?

 

[DoveAlexa]

I'm not going to say I've never done anything to upset anyone, because I have, but I can't recall ever being blocked on youtube or personally on some messaging service. On forums I might have been, but I know anyone who hated me on a forum never stopped replying to me so, heh, if I was blocked it was by someone who I didn't even interact with.

A few months ago I did make a certain popular youtube yell at me (no way at all on purpose, when it happened I was completely stunned), but he knew my husband so we ended up talking it all out and it ended up fine in the end. One of the rarest things huh?

If he had blocked me, I would have lost it. 1, for being blocked by anyone because wow would that suck and 2 because I was a huge fan and I was just trying to help. If I was being a jerk, I would have still been crushed, because then I could never fix it.

 

[Aris Khandr]

I bet some people in R&P have blocked me, but I don't really care. If they want to do that, that is their business. I enjoy seeing other viewpoints, even if I massively disagree with them. No one ever grew as a person without having their boundaries challenged.

 

[Andy Farren]

At the beginning of this year, I unfriended everyone from Facebook as an attempt to wean myself off of the site. I didn't want to lose all my photos, so I stopped short of deleting the account entirely, but to all intents and purposes, I was no longer on there. I realise now, this was entirely the wrong thing to do.

People I saw day-to-day would have this conversation with me:

"Why did you delete me off Facebook?!"
"Oh. I just quit the site"
"Fair enough. So it wasn't me?"
"No, no! You can still email me, or phone or whatever"

That was fine. I could explain my actions (Facebook was depressing me and I severely needed a break from it) and assure the person involved that we were still friends (assuming we actually were, of course).

However, to absentee friends, the vacuum of knowledge would be filled by rumours. People, of course, assumed it was something personal. One rumour said I had come out as gay and now had a boyfriend. Another, that I had committed suicide.

In hindsight, I should have posted a warning, left it there for a day or so, then binned the account. This would have given people time to absorb the information, take it as they wished, and then had some understanding where my account went.

As a coda, many people assumed I would break and come back to Facebook. I have absolutely no intention of doing so, unless it becomes mandatory or something. I also chinned Twitter off. And I quit smoking. 3 bad habits that were eating up my spare time; hurrah!

 

[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.

I have not blocked you nor would I most likely in the future. However if I, in the unforeseeable future block you I feel you should let you know that, now as I am, I feel great guilt for my ignorant action and can only hope I grow again as a person not to ignore a different views on the world.

Sincerely yours

Reasonable Loki_the_good

Charming, very charming. You can block me any day!
That sounded wrong.
Let's leave it at that.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

I take blockings as badges of honor.

I'm proud as hell that I got that idiot RWJ to block me. Hundreds of comments every minute and MY comment was the one vile enough for him to to pick out and block. Awesome.

 

[Phrozenflame500]

I take blockings as badges of honor.

I'm proud as hell that I got that idiot RWJ to block me. Hundreds of comments every minute and MY comment was the one vile enough for him to to pick out and block. Awesome.

Whoa whoa really? You got him to block you? Congrats dude, that's a real accomplishment. Out of interest, what was your comment?

 

[lacktheknack]

I think someone threatened to block me because of my avatars... well, I'm not changing them on the account of that.

It doesn't really bother me, although I'd like to know who did, if only so I know who to not bother quoting.

Unless I was being continually attacked, I'd never block anyone. It's intellectually lazy to block someone because they have a viewpoint that you feel is egregious.

 

[Radoh]

Well, I don't really care about that sort of thing normally, though there was this one time here on the Escapist that bothered me somewhat.
The individual (don't know if I'm allowed to say or not) was discussing that one lady losing her job for getting those two guys in hot water for making dongle jokes to each other at the whatever conference.
He said some really not intelligent things, I called him out on it, he then waited for the thread to get locked before PMing me saying what equates to "you don't know me". I responded to him, telling him he really ought to actually respond to what I was saying, before he through out the final word of a repeat of the prior, before blocking me.
It only bothered me in so much that he didn't engage in discussion, and ran away before I could respond, but beyond situations like those no, I don't really care.

 

[Mcupobob]

I've never been blocked, so I guess I don't know how I would feel. Guess It would depend on the situation.

 

[piinyouri]

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

Oh I know. That was the point of my post.
Like how would anyone know if they've been blocked?
How can you care when you are unaware?

 

[Rheinmetall]

I get very pissed if it happens, but I try not to think about it, because it is paranoid: essentially it's a virtual quarrel where you exchange insulting messages with a person that you don't know, you can't see their face and you are not going ever to meet in real life. When I catch myself thinking too much about it, i say: congratulations, you are a loser. I'm pissed with myself that thinks too much about it.