Jon Pretty

@jedws @propensive I'm sympathetic to your points. At least on twitter, there's another trend of folks getting totally swamped with...

@jedws @propensive ...a mixture of thoughtful replies, pedantry, good-and-bad-faith arguments, and harassment. Blocking is a...

@jedws @propensive ...response to that situation.

@d6 @propensive but blocking is response to only some of those cases, not all. some by thought, many can be handled by ignoring

@jedws @propensive Possibly, but "can be handled" is in the eye of the beholder. Blocking is presumably for when ignoring isn't working.

@d6 @propensive For me blocking is just "I heard what you said, you've said it to me too many times, I'm tired of listening, thanks".

@d6 @propensive I'm not sure I see a need for anyone to justify what it takes to get them to that point.

@travisbrown @d6 I just don't think blocking should be presented (particularly eg to children) as a solution to arguments you don't like.