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I‘ve been blocked! I guess I should be flattered? I wrote a #haikuaday about it.

Friendly reminder:
You can mute tags you don‘t like
No need to block me

In this case, the tags to mute are #ranttime & #longtimefed and I‘ll try to keep the blatant political “stuff” contained to those. I have to say, though, that blocking is the “nuclear” option, when unfollowing serves the same purpose.

I explained my rationale before. I‘ll still speak my mind.

Kristy_K, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, TheBookHippie, JenlovesJT47, Reggie, vivastory, Itchyfeetreader, jdiehr, CBee, dabbe, kelli7990, Jari-chan, lil1inblue, julieclair, AnnCrystal, bellabella, BooksandCoffee4Me

lil1inblue Well, I, for one, appreciate your posts! Especially the perspective from a long time fed! Keep doing you! 🥰💓 3d

CBee I appreciate every post you make. Even more so, I appreciate YOU as a human and someone who has the right to say and post whatever the hell they want. Keep it up ♥️ 2d

Tamra I also appreciate you sharing your thoughts. Times are tough - let‘s not be alone in them. 2d

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julieclair My goodness! The #BlockedClub is getting bigger! And lots of my favorite Littens are members. 💙 2d

Jari-chan I'm really glad for your posts, because I do learn a lot. Thank you for that. 2d

Eggbeater Silly question. How do you know if you've been blocked? 2d

ImperfectCJ Wow! It's never even occurred to me to block anyone on Litsy, not when unfollowing and muting hashtags is so easy. I think of blocking as an option to employ in a case of active harassment, not just posting things I don't like, but it sounds like others use it more broadly. (For the record, I do like your posts, and if I didn't, I wouldn't block you.) 2d

ImperfectCJ @Eggbeater I have the same question! 2d

CBee @ImperfectCJ it‘s an extreme reaction. This person (or people) doing the blocking wants Litsy to be all shiny happy people and that just isn‘t realistic. I for one don‘t want to see these perfectly coiffed posts all of the time. I want real shit, real feelings, and if you want to block someone for being human and having emotions, you must live in a very small world indeed 😢 2d

Read4life @CBee 👍🏻 @Eggbeater I, too, am curious how one knows when they‘ve been blocked. @Susanita I appreciate your perspective and learn things or are made aware of issues through the various #ranttime posts. Thanks for posting! 2d

Karisa Knowing that others see the surreal in this moment in history helps keep me sane. Plus so much of it does affect reading + life in general (book bans, freedom, healthcare)—how can we not be affected? @Eggbeater I‘m wondering that now too. 2d

CBee @Read4life ♥️ 2d

kspenmoll Thanks for being you! 🩵 2d

ChaoticMissAdventures The SCOTUS decision yesterday throws hundred if not thousands of children into chaos that will lead to them being unable to go to school to learn to read. Everything about us is political. It is frustrating to see people being so callous and ignorant about our current situation. 2d

ChaoticMissAdventures @CBee I agree so extreme! I have unfollowed people before due to myself being annoyed at what they post, but why block? I agree with @ImperfectCJ I would only use it if harassed, but maybe this person (people) are so ideology fragile they see facts that don't align with their world view as harassment 2d

BarbaraJean Ugh. For what it‘s worth, I really appreciate your posts and your perspective! I‘m really curious about the ins and outs of unfollowing, muting, and blocking on Litsy. I‘ve never blocked anyone (seems extreme to me!!) but I‘ve had people‘s posts still show up in my feed after I‘ve unfollowed them 🤷🏻‍♀️ And muting only works when people spell hashtags correctly 😆 2d

Susanita @Eggbeater @Karisa @Read4life @cbee @ImperfectCJ Long story short, if you go to their profile, you won‘t see anything and you can‘t follow them. How did I know to check? Let‘s just say I had spidey sense. 😎 2d

ChaoticMissAdventures @Susanita I know there is someone who made a big to-do about politics and a post about leaving the site (I cannot remember the screen name). The person didn't just leave the whole site did they? It just feels so weird that people are going around blocking all of the sudden. Like we all were not very vocal during the election and inauguration. I personally feel like they don't need to announce their exit. 😂 2d

JenlovesJT47 I really don‘t understand people. Excellent haiku. 🫂💙🩵💙 2d

Susanita Thanks everyone for your support! I‘m off to drink some wine now but will BBL with more thoughts. 2d

AnnCrystal 🫂🙏🏼 they feel the need to “make a point.“ Consider it a badge of honor and remember, you are on the right side of history. Continue being you, we like you just the way you are 😘🦅💝🐝💝🐝💝.

Just realized I've neglected to include my unrelated2books hashtag on my own posts 🤦🏽🤗. (edited) 2d

Deblovestoread I was surprised to be blocked rather than unfollowed as well. And everyone has the option to scroll on by if the content doesn‘t suit but let‘s face it those that drank the kook aid can‘t face any dissent of their choice to be in the cult. Please continue to post your perspective, it matters! 2d

dabbe We both earned some #blockedbadges this week! 🙌🏻 I gave them #ranttime; you gave them #longtimefed, and that still wasn't enough. 🤷‍♀️ I have learned so much from you and truly appreciate your insider perspective. Keep keepin' it real, m'dear. 💙✊🏻💙 Spot-on haiku. 🖤🐝🖤 2d

squirrelbrain I‘d see it as a badge of honour. And keep on doing what you‘re doing. (edited) 2d

CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures exactly. Just unfollow. There is no need for this blocking nonsense. But sadly, yes - it‘s them trying to make a point - however misguided and misinformed it might be 😢 2d

Tamra @julieclair I‘m sure I‘m in it and well, I just don‘t have any f*cks left to give. 😜 (edited) 2d

CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures trust me, it‘s only a small handful (if that) of people. Since they are in the minority here, I guess blocking gets them more attention 😂 2d

CBee @dabbe I‘m over here trying to figure out how to get myself blocked now 😂😂😂 2d

Tamra @Deblovestoread 😂 “kook aid” 2d

Deblovestoread @Tamra When unintended spelling error fits the bill to T 🤣 2d

dabbe @Tamra 🩵🎯🩵 2d

dabbe @CBee @ChaoticMissAdventures So does announcing to the entire Litsy community that you're leaving because of the political posts. I think I know who you're referring to, @ChaoticMissAdventures, and their handle is still on here. 🤷‍♀️ 2d

dabbe @CBee 😂😂😂 2d

ChaoticMissAdventures @dabbe I think you can leave and not delete your profile. Just chose not to log in any longer? Maybe that is what they mean. In my olden days as a moderator for a FB travel club we just to just put “This is not the airport, you don't need to announce your departure“ and then turn off the comments which I sort of miss the ability to do now 😂 😂 2d

jdiehr 😄 2d

jdiehr Just to be clear - I laugh because you wrote an awesome haiku about it 😗 2d

dabbe @ChaoticMissAdventures I guess I thought if you make an announcement like that that you are exiting the building for good and taking your id with you. But what the heck do I know? 😂 I love your airport story! 🎯🩵🎯! 2d

CBee @Deblovestoread I totally thought you did that on purpose because I mean, spot on 😂😂👏🏻👏🏻 2d

Tamra @Deblovestoread perfection! 2d

Susanita I‘m out in the boonies and can‘t really tag anyone, but I appreciate ALL of your comments. I‘ve been here nearly nine years, and I could tell pretty quickly that it‘s not “just” books. It‘s a community, and we need community now more than ever. Even if we disagree. What‘s interesting to me is that person was one of the first to befriend and welcome me, and as far as I can remember we‘ve had nothing but pleasant interactions one on one. ⬇️ 2d

Susanita I think it‘s some kind of perverse “solidarity” with their close friend. Yes, a point was made. 😏 2d

Read4life @ChaoticMissAdventures “This is not the airport…” 😂😂😂 2d

BarbaraBB Wow I am shocked. I didn‘t know about blocking instead of unfollowing - and I admit to having unfollowed some people. However I do enjoy your posts and rants and to me they are a way to keep catching up with American politics and news that doesn‘t automatically make it to where I live. 2d

Amiable I‘m apparently also a member of the #BlockedClub now. 🙄😄 I had to go check because I wasn‘t following either person anymore—I was a grown up and just unfollowed them ages ago without pitching a public hissy fit about it. 🙄 And @Deblovestoread , I don‘t care if it was a typo or not —“drinking the kook aid” is the best thing I‘ve ever seen and it is now officially a thing. 🙌🏼 2d

BarbaraJean Well, THIS is interesting. I checked profiles for the people I thought this might be about. Based on your description of profiles from the blocked person's perspective, one of them seems to have blocked me. I've had little to no interaction with her and unfollowed her years ago—no drama, I was just tired of too many game-type posts. Meanwhile, I'm over here with maybe one post in the last month that even mentions anything political-adjacent. 🙄 1d

Susanita @BarbaraJean I learned about muting tags because of the holiday games. 😉 1d

BarbaraJean @Susanita Hahaha—me toooo! 1d

Librarybelle I was posting the #LiteraryCrew questions this morning through the Litsy website and discovered I too was blocked by at least one person! I‘ve got to say, it‘s really upsetting. @Susanita @Deblovestoread @dabbe @Amiable @BarbaraJean ⬇️ 13h

Librarybelle ⬆️ I came back to this post for commiseration 😂 13h

Amiable @Librarybelle We consider it a badge of honor for speaking the truth! Some people can‘t handle the truth because it contradicts what they prefer to believe instead. ✊🏼💪🏼 11h

dabbe @Susanita This is EXACTLY what happened to me, too! #badgeofhonor 💙✊🏻💙 10h

dabbe @Amiable @Deblovestoread Welcome to the #blockedclub! And best hashtag eve: #kookaid 10h

dabbe @BarbaraJean Welcome to the #blockedclub! 😎 10h

dabbe @BarbaraJean @Susanita Same here! All those game posts! 😱 10h

dabbe @Librarybelle It is. But now I find it liberating, and I hope you will, too. And you're now part of the #blockedclub with us! We rock. 😎 10h

dabbe @Librarybelle 💙✊🏻💙 10h

dabbe @Amiable 🎯🩵🎯 Well said, sista! 10h

Librarybelle @Amiable @dabbe I‘ll get there eventually…this year has been so tough, and honestly it‘s a bit of a mental shakeup. But, I‘m in excellent company in the #blockedclub , and if people are offended that I‘m all for the truth in history and not the Disney version, then so be it. History is not meant to be pretty. And libraries matter. And I‘ll keep posting about my cats (if that was the cause of the block)! 😂 9h

BarbaraJean @dabbe Haha—thanks for the welcome!! And seriously, all those game posts 😫 I usually just mute the tag, but when people misspell tags or don‘t use them, so the posts STILL land in my feed—and the games are almost all that person posts? That‘s an unfollow for me. But not a block. 😂😂 9h

BarbaraJean @Librarybelle It feels like an extra level of offense to me that a person would block someone who‘s leading a buddy read they‘re part of! So petty. Long live truth in history (and cat posts)! 9h

Librarybelle @BarbaraJean The person was not in a buddy read, but because I was logged in through the website, I saw their name as a suggested follow, which I thought was odd. Clicking on it showed me that I was blocked, so apparently their name will appear as a suggested account to follow though it‘s really blocked. I would not have known otherwise! 9h

Amiable @BarbaraJean @Librarybelle I‘m totally here for ALL the cat posts —bring ‘em on! 🐱🐈🐈‍⬛😻 9h

BarbaraJean @Librarybelle Oh, that‘s fascinating!! And kind of blindsiding, too. ☹️ FB works similarly (or at least it used to)—I‘ve had people “unfriend” me and then show up in “People You May Know.” 🙄 8h

dabbe @BarbaraJean 🩵🎯🩵! 8h

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