@WAHlelujah: I saw a really long public blacklist on toyhou.se and most of the people listed were there for such petty reasons like "they were not a good friend to me umu" and it just made me wonder.... Why had this sort of thing ever become normal? I will never trust anyone with a public blacklist.
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@marven4lyf || Journal Entry
My opinion
Public blacklists are pretty stupid and feel like harassment. If you do public blacklists- why?
Comments (5)
@marven4lyf: Blocklists (and "casual blocking" in general) feels like a product of the Social Media age, at best a means of public shaming, at worst outright trolling. I hate the term "virtue signalling" but it's essentially a type of social theatre I tend to associate with younger people as an extension of playground politics: "It's not enough that I hate _x, you must too!" Now port that mentality onto platforms designed to amplify outrage, and blocklists become a fast means of crowdsourcing vindication over a perceived slight.
The one time I've seen blocklists employed 'constructively' was during the initial Alt-Right insurgency as a "neighbourhood watch" against known trolls and harassers.
@Thorvald: Yeah I get the impression that people who do this somehow, in their twisted logic, thinks it makes them look good which couldn't be farther from the truth.
@marven4lyf wrote:
@WAHlelujah: I saw a really long public blacklist on toyhou.se and most of the people listed were there for such petty reasons like "they were not a good friend to me umu" and it just made me wonder.... Why had this sort of thing ever become normal? I will never trust anyone with a public blacklist.
That's a petty reason to put someone on a blacklist. Then again, a good chunk of reasons somebody may be on a blacklist are already stupid.
I agree. More times than not a user whose made a public blacklist ('bewares' even) against someone or any group of people (especially in fandoms) tend to have skeletons in their closet.
Public blacklists are harassment. It doesn't matter if the one who made the blacklist cries that they do not support harassment nor support watchers/followers harassing those who're on the list (said poster cannot stop what any watcher/follower does).
Given how long some public blacklists are from what I've seen before, such posts tell me that the poster is terminally online.