I get it, a lot of us like to get HEATED sometimes, myself definitely included. You should go through periodically and unblock other Hexbears though unless you still remember why you blocked them and are still mad about it, or if you think they're actively harming you with their posts (in which case you should report them so they get banned).

Give folks chances to learn and grow once you've cooled off and once they have cooled off and try the unblock function once in a while.

Just a PSA to help keep the community a community; we're too small to be blocking each other permanently all the time. Blocks are useful for sure, I've got a few folks blocked myself, but once everyone has cooled off and the fight is a distant memory, give the unblock feature a try too.

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[–] christian@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The one person I had blocked was a pretty prolific poster (says 3.47K comments since last January) and apparently she was banned (probably four months ago) and now I'm really curious why. I never actually interacted with her, but she joined lemmygrad like three years ago. Back then, there weren't a lot of posts on lemmy and I got a bit annoyed by how she found a way to turn so many threads into arguments, and was such a prolific poster in doing that. I ditched lemmygrad like a month or two after genzedong got banned from reddit because it went from a really chill place where I was learning stuff to every thread is a hostile argument and visiting was making my mental health worse even if I'm not involved in the arguments myself. I had a very quick trigger finger when I saw her username come to hexbear.