There’s plenty of documentation surrounding people getting banned for little to no reason. Blocking obviously has much less accountability and transparency to it; don’t you think people are much more willing to block for even less?

Not to be rude but, there are tons of people in the world and they’re all completely different. “I wouldn’t do it so nobody else would” is naive.

I don’t know how you’re measuring both or why you’re apparently missing my point.

I think this is for people who are less “annoying” and more “actively lying and being bad faith.”

It can easily be co-opted by people willing to block either, as evidenced by the flame war in the comments here; the post suggests “I don’t like this” -> Block. I don’t like annoying people. I also don’t like people arguing in bad faith.

This is further complicated by the fact that a lot of people misconstrue good faith arguments from very different points of view with bad faith arguments. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been labeled as someone arguing in bad faith because my view differed from theirs and I didn’t immediately reverse my stance when confronted, or someone simply can’t read very well (literacy rates being what they are these days).

In part, this is because trolls sometimes like to be very subtle and drag a conversation out for 50 comments.

In part, this is because people are dumb and/or paranoid and don’t understand that people with other apparent viewpoints might not be trolls.

Okay, but you do see the difference between finding it funny and telling everyone about it, right?

Meh. I’ve learned some interesting things from some people I found a bit annoying.

It’s how I’ve come from card-carrying Republican to more or less fitting the label “progressive.”

Blocking people is fine. Caressing your nipples because you blocked them is… less fine.

I think it’s time I block you.

There are too many rage-baiters out there these days, and you’re one that does it virtually full-time.

Oh no! The police aren’t busy with more serious laws so they focus on the only laws people are breaking at the moment!

Why does this mean they suck, exactly? If you want to drive fast, drive on roads designed for fast driving.

$10 says they still think AI is great at counting things.

Because they have some meaning (and arguably, value) beyond “a number we choose to be a meme.”

The minute enough people knew what 6 7 was, it lost the only value it had: being an inside joke and using it to exclude others not in the know.

I think they’re in this post already because I did see someone using it earlier.

You used to see them in every thread doing it, though. I can’t be bothered to confirm or remember their username.

Similarly, if you make a mistake while disliked you are clearly incompetent and need to be punished, but a mistake while liked is only human.

Stop. You’re going to attract the thorn person. This is chum in the water for them.

30F is definitely hotter than -40F, there’s no argument from me there.

I also do not dispute your similarly new point of the US southwest having the record for the hottest weather recorded on earth, so far.

We appear to disagree on other things, though.

Oh we’re pivoting away from personal, subjective opinion and towards objectivity now?

30F is literally freezing, which is obviously below “cold.”

Hell yeah brother.

Oh okay, then 30C isn’t even hot. Maybe 50C or 60C.

30C is normal but slightly annoying, 30F sucks.

- A Floridian

We’ve been in the process of switching to the metric system since 1976, and officially (semi-)adopted it in 1991.

Unofficially, people are stubborn and anti-Europe.

If it makes you feel better, some cooks, all scientists and and all people involved in the drug trade are fluent in metric.

They were very obviously “shot” by AI and memory manufacturers.

OP is not a very good detective. They’d walk up on a scene and determine that five shots to the back of the head must have been suicide.