#mutually assured blocking

[mentalisttraceur]

Mutually Assured Blocking

I've decided I will just counter-block by default now. I'm done giving blockers exactly the consideration and kindness they didn't give me.

If you're someone who has a history with me, especially if you are positive towards me or "on my side" and I remember that, I am likely to make an exception. Or if I feel very compassionate about it, I might make an exception.

But otherwise, if I notice that you've blocked me, I will probably immediately block you back.

Of course, you should block me if you want! Make your online experience better for you. I'll even take it on board as genuine criticism of my behavior or personality if I find out!

But you don't get the option to talk to me if I cannot talk back. You don't get to use my posts as soapboxes if I don't get to use yours. Blocking is an asymmetric act and I'm done altruistically gifting you that asymmetry. If being blocked by you offends me or evidences bad cognition, I'm going to make my online experience better for me.

[mentalisttraceur]

Re: blocking doing more

In filter post content, you can type their usename and their posts will be trigger tagged basically

Though this wont stop it from being visible when tumblr suggests similar posts

[To-do: find original context post and link, circa May 21st 2022]

Hey can you help me test that?

If you add "mentalisttraceur" to "filter post content", do you still see posts from my sideblogs like "mentalisttraceur-long" normally? what if you filter a word like "mental" or "trace'", does it hide my posts? (Basically I'm worried about over-generalized filtering - if I want to filter a blog named "dumbass", I don't want "notadumbass" to be hidden as well, you know?)

This is more salient now now that I've adopted a "mutually assured blocking" policy. Because, just as when this first came up, what I'd really maximally benefit from is to almost unperson them from my Tumblr experience. I want to never see their posts/comments on any blog I visit or any post notes I open, that kind of thing. No reminder that they exist. No temptation to interact with a post which I can't interact with because the OP blocked me. Sadly what I want probably needs a custom solution, but I'd be wiling to try the "filter post content" thing as a start.

Tumblr's suggestions are a non issue, because I use custom CSS to basically delete that entire category of content from my Tumblr web browser experience, and I no longer use the app.