I’d take that over the situation now. At least if they had to resort to bannable offenses to retaliate, they’d actually get banned.

All blocking does now is give them free reign to harass you, which completely defeats the point.

Like if we have to be afraid of vengeful users who want to win something, why have blocking at all then? We might as well just bend over and hope they use lube.

The person you blocked can still see, and reply to, everything you say. It only denies you the opportunity to respond, allowing them to discredit you and turn others against you without your knowledge. It also doesn’t stop them downvoting you at all, leaving them free to retaliate via vote bombing.

They should be the ones unable to see any comments you make. They should be unable to reply or respond to you. They should be unable to vote on any of your comments or even posts at all.

But it’s the opposite, and therefore completely broken.

User blocking doesn’t work at all.

What you’re actually doing is forum sliding to protect corrupt Lemmy admins as if it’ll get you someplace, and it won’t.

I won’t play your stupid little game anymore. Bye

I don’t have to take action on a fact to have the right to state it.

You might not like the fact that Lemmy admins are just as susceptible to corruption as everyone else, but no one is going to stop saying it simply because you don’t want to hear it. And you can’t bully us into being quiet about it, either.

Will user blocking actually work the way it should now or is it still useless garbage that enables harassment?

Because I don’t have to for them to be terrible or to prove what I said is right.

Instance admins are already compromised sometimes. They can be bribed or get greedy.

He’s not wrong. 🤷

It shouldn’t. Developers have a moral responsibility to snub Unity now. A lesson must be learned here

My bad fam, I misread you

So what about people who do want to use they/them? Adults could install software like this for their kids and use the mod to deny their kid the right to choose what pronoun they want to use.

Then a heat pump won’t do any good. Achieving the right temperature is far more important.

But does it more effectively keep houses warm in cold weather, and cool in hot?

Sounds like you ought to stop it and think about what you’re doing.

Yet somehow I, the shit person, know how to behave as a mod better than they do, so that tells me all I need to know about them… and you.

You’re exactly the kind of person whose feathers get ruffled upon hearing these words and that tells us all we need to know about you. None of it is good.

Projecting much? Because I am not the one not listening to reason here, it’s you. It’s not just about this one particular douchebag. It’s the principle of the thing, that is applicable to all mods everywhere on every site.

You don’t get to just decide mods arguing with people in their own communities is okay because you find one particularly likeable. You as a user have a responsibility to hold mods to higher standards to maintain the integrity of the community too, and the only one who stands to suffer because of your refusal to accept it is you.

Firstly, the one rule of the instance of the community you are commenting on is “be nice”, so maybe relax on the hostilities.

I would say the same of you but it’s obvious you’re not listening. And that is entirely a you problem.

I’m a mod myself and an asshole, yet somehow I manage to not argue with my own users on my own subs. If I did, you’d be the first to call me out for being disrespectful and abusing my power, so why in the world would I or anyone listen to rhetoric from someone so disingenuous as you?

You don’t care about principle or properly managing a community, you only care about the fact that what I pointed out ruffled your feathers, hit too close to home, and you don’t like it.

People, above all, don’t like hearing the truth. And the truth is that you are just plain wrong and don’t want to accept it. Mods have responsibilities toward their users and that doesn’t change just because you don’t like it.

Let me tell you what you’ll tell me: go outside and touch some grass, it’s not that serious. Find it within yourself to accept it’s okay to be wrong about something.

This isn’t a job. They are a user like you who happen to also volunteer to mod because someone has to.

And they willingly chose to accept the responsibility that goes along with being a mod in exchange for that kind of power over others. That means they’re going to be held to a higher ethical standard than regular users and are looked down upon if they argue with users openly, because to allow it is to allow them to do worse shit, like ban users for disagreeing with them or even winning said arguments.

It doesn’t matter if mods get paid or not. They have to adhere to that responsibility or everyone suffers, even if you personally don’t care what they do. You’re just part of the problem.

Why would any of you think it’s okay for mods to power-trip? Is it because you have no standards? Or you wish to do the same yourself?

They seem to have handled the situation just fine and even left the report for other mods to handle. I really don’t see what the big issue is.

It’s the principle of the thing, which you don’t understand because you don’t have any real values.

I said argue, not contribute to discourse.