#blocking

[wip]

Know how when we click a tag, it opens a page for all instances of said tag, and on that page is an option to follow it; would it be possible to have a similar option to block it from the same place?

It would make blocking a tag a lot simpler, especially since sometimes it’s necessary to remember whatever complicated spelling the tag has (on mobile I can’t c/p a tag, idk about desktop) while navigating several steps to the block menu, or for blocking several similar tags in a row, such as 37 versions of #(whatever new show) spoilers is the word of the day 😂

I just think it would make sense that clicking on someone’s tag, exactly as they wrote it, and being able to block it from there would be *incredibly* useful, and if blocking tags was simple, straightforward, visible, and readily available, then more people might use it effectively. How feasible is that, and how likely?

Answer: Hi, @trudemaethien!

We are sorry to say that while it would indeed be nice to have this, and there are plenty of us on the team who would love to see it, we can't make it a priority right now. It is also unclear when we’d get around to it, but if there are any updates here, @wip or @changes is the place you'll find 'em.

Thanks for your question. We appreciate submissions such as these, and fingers crossed!

[fixing-bad-posts]

u can delete and block replies. Enjoy your life yaa lit

[myfandomrealitea]

Pre-emptively blocking people is good for everyone.

Seriously. The amount of times I see people whining or laughing about being blocked when they 'haven't even done anything' just tells me that not many of you know its actually a really good way to properly curate your online space, and its not something to be offended over.

Blocking is a form of protection. Its also a form of mutual protection.

Especially on websites that don't offer more extensive or usable filtering, tagging and avoidance options. Twitter, for example.

Blocking isn't some personal insult. Its a method of saying; hey, we clearly shouldn't interact, so I'm gonna build this soundproof wall between us to make sure we can't.

To use The Salmon Analogy, if I run a restaurant based on salmon as the main ingredient, and you're allergic or or severely dislike salmon, me refusing to serve you isn't a personal sleight. Its me recognising that you can't or really don't want to eat salmon, and its me protecting you from an unpleasant experience and myself from you inevitably screaming at me for serving salmon.

If you are someone who enjoys 'objectionable' content, such as gore, and you stumble across an extremely anti-gore blog, its absolutely a viable option to pre-emptively block them. Maybe your paths never would've crossed, but its better to ensure they don't than potentially wind up the victim or hate or harassment.

Blocking is an absolute sure-fire way to ensure that you do not see something you do not want to. It should be used as liberally as you want to.

[dawnthread]

aaaaaand it is BLOCKED!!

all i need to do now is wait a couple days for it to dry, and then unpin it

each one of those mat blocks is about a foot square, for scale - i need to get another set of them, i had to cannibalize out from underneath the shawl body to get the perimeter big enough to pin it all out, i've been meaning to do that for ages and not done it yet

the finished-finished product is getting so close i can taste it

[elythegardeningbard]

This is really how I use it anyway

[gayofthefae]

It's the silence. It's Byler season 3. It's the fact that in season 3 they don't really have a plot together outside of episode 3, or even really that one scene in episode 3, honestly. But they do everything together. Yes, out of world, the Duffers blocked them there, but in world they sat there. They ran to each other every time. They reacted together every time. It's the use of the silence. They were subtextual that season and the writers said "we're putting them in the subtext but we will fill every silence between words we have with them". It's the way that they're always always there even when they're not. Even when it's not about them. Even when it's actively about someone else. Even when it's about someone else that should be contradictory. It's still them.

I can't think of an actual conversation Will and Mike have after that fight until after the battle at Starcourt. But they're always together. There is so much story in silence and they utilized it.

There isn't much reason for any of these. It's subtle and background, most of Will's arc being either setup for next season or carried by Lucas after their fight. But they want you to know. They want it to stay on your mind. Mike hearing what Will said and not being able to respond verbally because that's dangerous territory but returning to his side, if he ever truly left.

It's the elevating of the script. The way that even when the story needs to be about something else for even their characters, they still want them on your mind.

I love these silent stories they tell. The way Mike goes back to Will's side after their fight in season 3. The way Mike gets more comfortable initiating touch again after their fight in season 4.

They always want them on your mind. They always want to associate them to each other so that when you think Mike, your mind autofills Will. And maybe you think "huh, that's strange, wasn't his plot about El?" but your mind did it anyways.

[follows-the-bees]

The blocking of the show is very deliberate with Stede and Ed. They are always next to each other, level, because they are equals.

One thing I noticed is that who is on the right side of the screen is important. The person standing/sitting on the right is the one who is showing emotional vulnerability.

While I'm not staying both of them aren't showing or are the focus of the shot, (as stated earlier, they are equals) generally the person on the right is the focus in the emotional weight of the scene.

For instance, here's Ed on the right side of the frame.

Ed is the one side eyeing Stede, showing the audience his inner thoughts of marriage with Stede. Or at the very least, thinking about Stede while watching the LuPete wedding.

Ed is opening up in this scene, telling Stede about his past, killing his father.

While I will say this is more equal, the focus of the shot is definitely Ed realizing his emotions for Stede.

In the first kiss here, Ed is the one first confessing his emotions to and about Stede, taking the first step forward.

In their last kiss on screen, once again Ed is expressing his emotions. He tells Stede he loves him.

During this scene, Ed is opening up and vulnerable. He tells Stede about seeing him as a mermaid, merman, merperson.

And now Stede on the right!

In this scene, Stede is telling Ed he loves him. This is his love confession. Just like the first and last kiss are Ed's.

In a parallel to the morning after breakfast scene, Stede is the one opening up here. He tells Ed about the letters that he's written over the past few months.

In the real world scene, Stede is talking to Ed and trying to bring him back to life. His focus in the real world is important, and balances the focus of Ed's expressions and emotions in the accompanying purgatory shots.

And I'll end with this shot, cause it's just beautiful.

There are many others, but Tumblr only allows ten photos a post.

[agendergenderqueermasculenbyguy]

This is your permission to block that person!

There is no stigma attached to blocking people on tumblr. I promise.

Listen, I promise you. You can just block them.

I have blocked someone because I don’t like their art style. Their art constantly shows up in a fandom tag I follow; so I blocked that user.

Someone I follow reblogs from someone I don’t want to see on my dash so I put their entire URL in my filtered terms/ blacklist.

There was an aesthetic blogger in a tag I frequent and I didn’t want their collages/ mood boards to clog up my search results. So I blocked them.

I promise you, you are allowed to filter out and/ or block people.

People don’t need to be bad, don’t need to be annoying, don’t need to “deserve” getting blocked.

You are allowed to block people for any reason whatsoever; including no reason at all.

[crochetraptor]

Finished this shawl the day of my partners sister's wedding! It was a grind to get it done in time (a little over 2wks) but none the less I think it's one of my best completed pieces!

Still working up the energy to block it though, I haven't ever blocked anything yet and I'm a bit hesitant too.

Here is the pattern from etsy

Carron super soft yarn

[epicthemusicalstuff]

A word of advice

If you are new to tumblr, I’m sure you have already heard this, but I advise you to change your profile picture and add some stuff to your blogs! Commonly bots have the generic everything, and alas there are a lot of them roaming about. I say this because I don’t want to block anyone, but there are a lot of accounts who appear to be bots who are following or liking this account, and I don’t want to accidentally block any non bots!

[wip]

Please make it possible to hide users' posts without blocking them. Like, in cases where a person hasn't done anything wrong to be blocked, but you just don't like their posts.

Answer: Hello, @deithwen!

As it turns out, we’ve received this feature request a lot over the years. Usually, it comes in as wanting the ability to “mute” other blogs on Tumblr. While we would love to build it, we’ve balked at it a bit because of its technical and product complexity. Let us explain what that means:

In terms of technical complexity, our current blocking feature is closest to how “muting” would work. Our current blocking feature may seem simple, but it’s very complex because of how big Tumblr is. Every time we fetch a list of blogs for you or anyone on Tumblr, we have to also fetch the list of who you’re blocking, and who’s blocking you, and filter out anyone with that block relationship. This mapping of who’s-blocking-who is stored in a directional way right now, so the “cost” of loading that list gets higher the more people you’re blocking and the more people who are blocking you. If you’re blocking 1,000 blogs, we have to check that list a lot. If you’re being blocked by 1,000 blogs, that’s another big list to check against.

In technical terms, this is a “many-to-many” relationship, which is almost always incredibly difficult to manage while not degrading the experience of using a platform like Tumblr. The more people who are blocking, the harder it is to store those lists in a way that’s easy to check, but we’re working on making it smoother. The vast majority of people don’t block many others, if at all, so it’s never been a huge problem. But the outliers who block thousands of others (or are blocked by thousands of others) can degrade performance for everyone over enough time.

Adding muting would throw on top of that yet another list of blogs to check, increasing the complexity of something that’s already pretty complex. It helps that muting would be one-directional and not bi-directional (as in, it doesn’t matter who’s muting you), but, as that list of muted blogs grows, your experience may degrade further. So we’d need to solve for that, which is definitely doable. It would just take time—and lots of it.

And, as a product, Tumblr is already pretty confusing to people trying to figure out what “blocking” means already, as well as our other filtering options. Up until fairly recently, blocking was almost entirely one-directional, the opposite way you’d expect: blocking made it so the blocked person couldn’t see you, not that you couldn’t see them. We’ve been updating blocking to work both ways instead, which is more common on social media these days. Similarly, the options to filter tags versus content cause a lot of confusion because they don’t work the same way as each other.

So if we wanted to add another filtering option to that mix, “muting” blogs, we’d need to be conscious of how all of those options work together—and are confusing in context with each other. We should really clean up that experience to be more streamlined and simple, not more complex. And I didn’t even mention the oddity of how different settings apply to your primary blog versus your sideblogs if you have more than one blog!

Taken together, it is a great idea for us to clean all of this up, improve our existing options here, and add “muting” for even more control and granularity. Sadly, however, it just isn’t high enough on our list of priorities to tackle anytime soon. We don’t want to simply tack on muting for the sake of doing it—we want to do a better job than that. I hope that makes sense!

Thanks for your question. It was an important one to address. If anything should change here, you will get news through the usual channels: here at WIP, or at @changes. 

[fixing-bad-posts]

[Image description: A tumblr text-post, edited blackout-poetry style to read, "I blocked every blog I didn't want to see, yes."]

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I blocked every blog I didn't want to see, yes.

[thesocklesswonder]

Musk has done another dumb thing. Story here

[mischief-tea]

She's blocking!

First ever, and I'm already learning a lot:

1. Despite hearing a lot of complaints about cotton lacking stretch, I was NOT prepared for the stretch on this baby. Blue Sky Organic Cotton and I could have easily gotten five more inches on the wingspan with aggressive blocking...

2. mORE mATS

3. If you think you have enough pins, you don't.

4. Just generally assume that natural fibers are hella stretchier than you ever imagined and give yourself like 130% of the project size minimum in mat space before you start.

5. BONUS! The neighbor's sprinkler systems waste a lot of water on the sidewalk and FUN FACT! You can save water by standing in front of their house scrunching and flapping a sopping shawl in their (spraying over the sidewalk? It's public domain now, baby) sprinkler water like a freak!

[gayofthefae]

The blocking of the ily2 scene and how it switches so that Mike is the one to be standing in front of the closet when she kisses him.