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I want to explain my policy on blocking. It’s no secret that I use the block button quite liberally (though I’m nowhere close to @Noahpinion’s 200K!). But the bottom line is that when you have 70K followers, let alone those who have many more, the volume of vitriol gets very high
So I welcome all good-faith criticism but no bad-faith criticism. If I detect the slightest whiff of the latter, I block. It keeps my experience on this site sane. I also block for anti-Catholic bigotry and for any insults to or attacks on the Holy Father, Pope Francis.
The bad-faith determination is necessarily subjective but I’ll give you a recent example. If you’ve never interacted with my work, never said a good word about me or a kind word to me, but then suddenly pop up to offer “fraternal correction” in a churchy, moralizing tone —> block
Think that’s unfair? Think it’s an overbroad policy? Well, sorry, not sorry, as the youths say. I’m not *obligated* to interact with anyone on Twitter.
The upside: By following this policy, I keep my threads sane, with plenty of good-spirited back and forth. It also means I read all my threads, so if you disagree with an oped we run, you can be sure I’ve seen your comment — that is, unless you cross the line and —> block.
Others I automatically block: anti-Semites (including obsessive Israel-haters); groypers, alt-righters and frog-avatar people; those with hammer-and-sickle insignia in their profiles (unless it's intended parodically).
Think that's "cancel culture"? Well, I'm not a liberal.
Think that's "cancel culture"? Well, I'm not a liberal.
