Why do people block without giving any reasons?

@ThePerfectUsername Sorry you feel that way. Perhaps you "might" benefit from some of the reasons given in here.

See there ya go.. judging me without even knowing why I do it.

Feeling sorry for someone who exercises their right to tailor their feed by blocking what they consider mind numbingly tedious one-track-mind posters, disrespectful individuals, and people who regularly provoke dissent purely for their own malicious entertainment, it's all a little condescending of you don't you think?

Everyone has a right to remove potentially unwanted or contentious material from their feed and not one of them needs your approval in order to do it. So don't feel sorry for me, my time here is spent pleasantly reading things I choose to read from people I respect or potential friends I haven't met yet. Not letting other people dictate what I must see has been entirely beneficial thank you very much.

So I'd highly recommend you stop fretting about why other people may have blocked you and exercise your own right to control your own environment some time with no explanation to anyone. You can even practice on me if you like.

@DeWayfarer]

@ThePerfectUsername Wooo!


I never made judgement on you! Just made a suggestion that you "might" find some benefit in here!

Take it or not that's not a judgement.

I don't need you to be sorry for the way I feel. I find it both presumptuous and condescending. @DeWayfarer

@ThePerfectUsername Nor do I feel sorry for my feelings. Yet still I am civil about things and at least attempt to get along.

Once again not making a judgement about you. It's how I am. Ackward having to say that yet I do say it.

I really do think you'd benefit from realising that your desire to understand why you were blocked is inappropriate and unworkable.
1. I can clearly see that not knowing why troubles you.
2. As a fellow human being I'd rather it didn't trouble you.
3. take the totally fabricated example of you offering sympathetic words to a young woman... you don't know that she wasn't raped by someone in our age group... you don't know whether her abuser used words similar to your own... there's so much about her that you don't know that makes someone of our age wary of offering support. Yet we still do it cos even if it only ever works 1 out of 10 times to that one person it might have been exactly what she needed.
Meanwhile... the other 9 who blocked you/us might well have had highly personal reasons all of their own for not wanting someone like you/us/whoever in their life.
And in my opinion neither you or I would be owed an explanation.
Yes it would be great if we got one. But no way can we expect one, and if the only way they could protect themselves from the emotions we engendered in them was to block us then good on 'em for putting themselves first.

@DeWayfarer

@ThePerfectUsername Have you ever read anything about netiquette?

I am not talking about isolated cases which your rape case is one. I talking as internet etiquette. If it was an isolated case you would have a point. Yet it is no longer isolated.

People here are blocking for no reasons at all. Some are blocking for insane reasons. Some are blocking so much that they have used all 500 blocks and are begging for more blocks. And all that on an anonymous site where they know just what kind of people are on it.

Not all of them are rape cases. Not all of them are mentally unstable. A few yes. Yet most don't have a real reason. Yet the netiquette for most should be to give some kind of reason even if it is "I don't like you" for whatever reason.

This is what I consider civilized behavior on the internet or "netiquette".

Netiquette has been on the way out ever since the late 90's when usenet began to decline in poultry. My general point still holds good though. Nobody should ever be required to explain themselves to every stranger they ever make a decision over. In real live maybe... but then in real life you don't encounter 1000 different people in the space of a single day. @DeWayfarer

@ThePerfectUsername Now that IS really really sad. Because I was a huge fan of netiquette on USENET. In fact I had some minor influence on it.

Have a good day or night. Was interesting conversing with you.