I have been on reddit for just about 12 years now. Something I’ve noticed over time is just how hateful the place has become. A complete outrage machine. Every single sub became filled with it. I’ve filtered so many subreddits over the last few years, it’s insane. I don’t know enough about this place to be sure, but I do hope it doesn’t become the same type of echo chamber of anger.
I was very block-happy for half a year or so, anyone who was unnecessarily rude or aggressive (or participated in pun comment chains…) was immediately gone. Sadly you could only block 1000 accounts and you didn’t get your blocks back if an account was banned/deleted. With the entire list full I could never go and delete the old ones because 9 times out of 10 the page would take too long to load and crash, then if I did make it in the only way to tell if an account still existed was to open it in a private tab. Ignoring with RES was better and hid posts/comments completely instead of still showing them with “blocked user” replacing the username, but it didn’t carry over to mobile. Hopefully the system will work better here.
Hopefully so. I feel that our time and attention are the most precious things we have and happiness largely depends on being careful who and what we give our time and attention.