Why? Because we've received an influx of people from X that didn't like it when Musk followed Freedom of speech laws.
Does it bother me? No, because if I want to communicate with them, I'll restack their shit and they can read my replies there. They own the stack, and if they want suck-ups only to comment, that's their business.
If I ever opened my chat up to the public, I'd monetize it.
The only reason I don't lock comments to paid only is that I like to read what people think.
substack may have started with mostly a dissident population, but certainly isn't that now.
to note in context of your rant (no offense intended, I often rant myself):
the platform has made it more difficult to "block" users, or even get to their page from comments. used to be able to block immediately from a dropdown menu right clicking a username attached to a comment, but they deleted that functionality. around the same time it was made more difficult to block aggravating content, now I can't even consistently launch the user page from their name to go and block them from there. the interference almost seems intentional.
compare that to how it randomly pops up not-aggravating user info in the way of other comments, with no way to make it pop back down, when browsing comments on touchscreen, and it's extra aggravating they've partially nerfed the block feature.
I like blocking on "social media." it is not the real world with annoying people I actually run into and therefore cannot block outright, so I take advantage of the ability to screen out some of the content that makes me want to act like a drunken Choad and attack them. blocking is the only good thing the Facebook venue offers and they've made it harder too by allowing some "persons" anonymous posting in groups. the anon feature is both unblockable AND not available to all group members. the absolute worst persons seem to be the majority of those permitted anon posting by the Zuckerborg.
trolls, trolls everywhere. admittedly I do my share of deliberate trolling too, but certainly never get paid for it.
as time goes on I make less attempts at rational discussion with those who might be trolls and just jump straight to blocking. yes, I could be missing of, but you know what? I'd rather the peace and quiet of not interacting with them at all. even venting my disgust at them isn't worth leaving their comments visible.
Am I Surprised? No
Why? Because we've received an influx of people from X that didn't like it when Musk followed Freedom of speech laws.
Does it bother me? No, because if I want to communicate with them, I'll restack their shit and they can read my replies there. They own the stack, and if they want suck-ups only to comment, that's their business.
If I ever opened my chat up to the public, I'd monetize it.
The only reason I don't lock comments to paid only is that I like to read what people think.
substack may have started with mostly a dissident population, but certainly isn't that now.
to note in context of your rant (no offense intended, I often rant myself):
the platform has made it more difficult to "block" users, or even get to their page from comments. used to be able to block immediately from a dropdown menu right clicking a username attached to a comment, but they deleted that functionality. around the same time it was made more difficult to block aggravating content, now I can't even consistently launch the user page from their name to go and block them from there. the interference almost seems intentional.
compare that to how it randomly pops up not-aggravating user info in the way of other comments, with no way to make it pop back down, when browsing comments on touchscreen, and it's extra aggravating they've partially nerfed the block feature.
I like blocking on "social media." it is not the real world with annoying people I actually run into and therefore cannot block outright, so I take advantage of the ability to screen out some of the content that makes me want to act like a drunken Choad and attack them. blocking is the only good thing the Facebook venue offers and they've made it harder too by allowing some "persons" anonymous posting in groups. the anon feature is both unblockable AND not available to all group members. the absolute worst persons seem to be the majority of those permitted anon posting by the Zuckerborg.
trolls, trolls everywhere. admittedly I do my share of deliberate trolling too, but certainly never get paid for it.
as time goes on I make less attempts at rational discussion with those who might be trolls and just jump straight to blocking. yes, I could be missing of, but you know what? I'd rather the peace and quiet of not interacting with them at all. even venting my disgust at them isn't worth leaving their comments visible.
Same
Interesting essay, I'm suspicious that the bot problem is everywhere, didn't used to believe in the dead internet theory but now I do.
Are they even human?