astercontrol:
reasons I’ve blocked people who never interacted with me:
they made a post that I keep seeing people reblogging and I disagree with it
they made a post and I don’t disagree with it, but I think their way of expressing it is extremely counterproductive if they want to convince anyone to agree with it
they made a post participating in an argument where I think both sides are extreme wastes of time
they made a post about a person/topic/fandom/franchise that I am sick of seeing references to, to the point that I have all possible related words filtered, but they evaded this by posting an untagged, undescribed screenshot. Bonus points if the screenshot is about how they also are sick of this topic and don’t want to see any references to it on their dash
They made a post that’s a good joke but I have seen at least five different versions of the same joke posted by different people over the past couple years and each one got thousands of notes like it was the first time anyone’s ever thought of this joke
They made a post that’s a good joke but I’ve seen five different versions of this joke get thousands of notes over the past couple years and all of those versions were posted after MY version of the joke which got like 4 notes and then vanished into obscurity
basically any post they’ve made that I’m sick of, and have seen get reblogged onto my dash more times than I want to
ways Tumblr could reduce the number of people I block:
make it possible to block a specific post and never see it again, in any reblogs. without blocking the person who made it. just 1 post. please
the more i think about this, the more I feel like Tumblr’s general attitude of “if a person ever did something we don’t like, we’ve gotta throw out the whole person” is kinda baked into the code of how the website works

and I really really don’t like this.

because, I guess, the common theme in “posts I decide I never want to see again,” is:

I have seen them multiple times
they make me want to say something
I know that the thing I want to say would not end well
…so every time I see the post, I feel the frustration of having to silence myself.

and this frustration is an extremely bad feeling.

but also? it is a feeling that cannot always rationally be blamed on anyone else.

and, if someone has posted something that caused me to have that feeling? that does not necessarily mean I “don’t want to see any of their other posts,” or “don’t want them to see mine”

and so it is very frustrating that Tumblr’s “stop seeing a post” options are limited to

filter words that are in it, which only works if the post has words, and won’t even stop you from seeing the words because they’ll still show up in your “this post has been hidden” notification
or block the person entirely.

there’s probably other options in, like. xkit or something? but, having to troubleshoot the ways Tumblr fucks up a plugin every time there’s a site update is also very high on my list of experiences I do not like

…maybe I will try to build a habit of taking “post I don’t like to see” as a sign that it’s time to log off the internet for a while.

fuck knows I sometimes need such a sign.