What do you block people for?

ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 85 points –

Do you have a criteria for what qualifies as block-worthy offence or are you just doing it when you feel like it?

Bonus question: how long is your block list?

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Sealioning is a made up term by those too lazy to explain a concept and looking to antagonise others because they "cannot possibly be unaware of X fact that I care so much about".

Funnily enough saying someone is sealioning falls within the passive-aggressive behaviour you seem to despise so much.

Sealioning is the discussion equivalent of a DoS (denial of service) attack. In both, the content of the reply is irrelevant; the goal is to flood the person/machine with multiple requests, until they reach a limit and stop dropping drop the requests altogether.

And while the concept has some problems because it handles some esoteric babble called "intentions" (see: "goal"), it's still useful when you focus on the behaviour instead.

Funnily enough saying someone is sealioning falls within the passive-aggressive behaviour you seem to despise so much.

Pass-aggro is about tone, not content. You can state something like "you're sealioning" in a passive aggressive way, or a rude way, or under a bald-on record, so goes on.

[Edit reason: phrasing.]

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