I think the dynamics of blocking are really interesting. I don't understand people who use this platform primarily to teach doing it.
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I get not wanting to see someone; I mute constantly. Seems like a personal preference but also a bit counterproductive?
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But I'm wildly fascinated by those random times you find out you've been blocked by someone you've never interacted with. It's common.
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Not that it happens to me a ton, but I hear people talk about it with some regularity. And I wonder if there's people who just wander >
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through the twitterverse finding things to be offended at and think "I'll show THEM" and hit block, though that person won't likely know.
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No, it's almost certainly through use of a blockchain extension
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And it's because muting doesn't stop people directing attention at your tweets to do pile-ons
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I blockchain the followers of people I don't like and re-up it every so often to catch new ones, that's really it
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Mass shared blocklists started with Blockbot in 2012 or so http://www.theblockbot.com/sign_up/connect.php …
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Which led to BlockTogether as a tool to let anyone export and share their blocklist
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Then in 2014 Gamergate happened and the Gamergate Autoblocker got well known for auto-generating a constant blocklist based on followers
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