Why Did Garry Tan Block You on Twitter?
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Why Did Garry Tan Block You on Twitter?
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#2I rarely block people, but I love using the mute button. That feels like so much less drama since they don't even know the mute happened. (None of the fallout of those tweets with the blocked screenshot crying foul.) What am I missing out on that makes blocking worth it's more "public" nature?
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#3But: Will Garry Tan add a block button to HN?
Not that I would ever use it.
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#4I rarely block people, but I love using the mute button. That feels like so much less drama since they don't even know the mute happened. (None of the fallout of those tweets with the blocked screenshot crying foul.) What am I missing out on that makes blocking worth it's more "public" nature?
You get to tell them that they were bad without having to deal with their whining excuses or vitriol.
Personally I prefer being told I'm silenced, since it is a feedback mechanism that gives me the choice to reflect. Maybe it's reflecting on whether I was bad, or maybe it's reflecting on whether it was the right place and time to say what I said, or maybe it's reflecting on whether the person blocking me is worth my time and effort.
I get why people prefer not to offer this feedback, since far too many people get vindictive once they've been rejected. Ghosting someone is highly effective. Still, I wish it wasn't a necessarily available tool, because it gets abused by the overly offended and/or seems to me like passing the problem on to someone else to handle.
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#5I checked, he didn't block me. (And I'm very critical of YCombinator on Twitter.)
But, proactively, I blocked him.
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#6I rarely block people, but I love using the mute button. That feels like so much less drama since they don't even know the mute happened. (None of the fallout of those tweets with the blocked screenshot crying foul.) What am I missing out on that makes blocking worth it's more "public" nature?
I think the advantage over mute is that the blockee can't reply, so when others see your tweets there's one less person telling you you're wrong.
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#7But: Will Garry Tan add a block button to HN? Not that I would ever use it.
I wrote a browser extension for myself to "block" users on this board. It's just a list of username -> reason,evidence_url,action records, where "action" is either "make text invisible" or "make text harder to read (the cdd style that HN uses for flagged comments)". It makes the board much better.
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#8But: Will Garry Tan add a block button to HN? Not that I would ever use it.
Sounds like way too much customization for an ad-free and free message board.
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#9I rarely block people, but I love using the mute button. That feels like so much less drama since they don't even know the mute happened. (None of the fallout of those tweets with the blocked screenshot crying foul.) What am I missing out on that makes blocking worth it's more "public" nature?
You get to tell them that they were bad without having to deal with their whining excuses or vitriol. Personally I prefer being told I'm silenced, since it is a feedback mechanism that gives me the choice to reflect. Maybe it's reflecting on whether I was bad, or maybe it's reflecting on whether it was the right place and time to say what I said, or maybe it's reflecting on whether the person blocking me is worth my…
I feel this presumes that the blocking was done with an intent and context that the blocked person (and public audience) would agree with.
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#10This feels like déjà vu, because at one point the tech community was saying that a private company, a CEO, can do whatever they want. They can totally block people they don’t like politically. Now it seems one of their own is doing it and it’s not sitting well with people. A little hypocritical.