Blocked ..lol

I've had someone today ask me a question, and before I could answer ....I was blocked 🤷

Some will block you if you don't share their opinions or change yours to agree with theirs.

If they are so frightened to be questioned, disbelieved or opposed, why do they use public discussion-groups in the first place?

I am not sure but the one who blocked you might not read your post anyway, because I think the barrier works both ways.

What annoys and upsets me more is that SimilarWorlds creates an automatic message whose clumsy text implies the victim of a block is the guilty one even when innocent - rather like one of the signs of coercive and controlling behaviour.

The last who blocked me, a few days ago, was some woman who sent an unsolicited PM, and she blocked me because I had made clear, but politely, that I do not share her predilection revealed by her "Forums" [[i]sic[/i]] to be cruel to her children. Next I knew I was "... you are not allowed to contact this person" as if it were [i]me[/i] advocating domestic abuse!

Also, if you block and try to report someone for genuinely bad behaviour you are faced with a database-like menu of reasons, yet your reason might match none of them; and again, the block message will say [i]you [/i]are not allowed to contact the miscreant!

I have blocked only about three people I think, all for bad conduct [i]not[/i] their opinions - but in one case the moderators even stood up for the wrong-doer.

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That skewed version of guilt is not confined to SW. I used to contribute to "Answers", a Wikipedia off-shoot, with a large Maths and Science section. When I criticised two people hell-bent on making it very difficult to learn how to convert Imperial to Metric measures, the moderators reprimanded [i]me[/i] and did nothing to stop these saboteurs! (I think the questions were from American school-children's homework, and such as, "How many km in 40 miles" or "Kg in 20 pounds".)

This is the way I look at it: if someone would block you so trivially, you don't want them in your life anyway. They've done you a favor.

this is a really bad site about people blocking. Worse than anything I seen before.

Sometimes i would like more people to block me so I dont have to read their rude and snarky comments

Hey, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but nobody here cares

I just wish SW gave more free blocks 🚫 😆

This is the only place where you can say or do [i]one thing[/i] that a person disagrees with--even someone allegedly a friend--and you get blocked. That's a problem, because my friendship has value and I take issue with someone without the maturity to resolve minor conflicts.

It shows you how fake people here can be.

It's like half the people here are Borderlines.

People have to be really offensive for me to,block them. I have been blocked by some that I don't know why. Such is life on SW.

@SW-User some people on here would make a pyschiatric nightmare the way there mind must work and how they think the baffle common sense

Just another day on SW!

Some fella keeps on blocking me then unblocking me, I just pretend I didn't notice.... He must be bored

They won’t see it though cause they blocked you……