that's odd. i don't think my post here was dramatic at all (i think it was pretty straightforward, actually), and i certainly wasn't dramatic in the post under discussion -- indeed, instead of being dramatic i just left. i decided to share my experience(because the go-between part was so unusual i thought y'all might find it interesting) in a relatively undramatic way. i am very surprised to see you call either my post (which you have seen) or any part of my conversation to which i refer (which i assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you have NOT seen) dramatic.

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i will add that it wasn't just curiosity on the part of the blockee, because i was tagged over and over. she obviously wanted to keep the "fight" going, and i very clearly didn't. that's not ME being dramatic lol.

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@genessa I did see the entire conversation.

When one replies to a comment, the person is "tagged." That's not really intentional tagging as much as it is replying to a comment. The tag is automatic.

We don't have to agree on whether the person was curious about the rest of the conversation they could no longer see.

We don't have to agree on our definitions of what dramatic is.

@BlueWave you saw the conversation to which this post refers? okay. i didn't know you were there. i have not been back to see who else was involved. if i replied to something you said there, then yep, you'd be tagged,and i am sorry that i don't remember you from it, but i was focused on getting away from the two in question. it's nothing personal.

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well, if you don't care, and i am only reporting this for your amusement, as i've said a few times, why respond? i don't care about a lot of the posts i see. if i don't care, i just don't respond! it's kind of normal.

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@genessa quick to pull the trigger.... Hats off, you've passed the test !!! ?

@IamNobody i wasn't taking a test. if you were giving one, that's YOUR business. feh. i don't play head games. i don't respect others who play head games.

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@genessa .....you need to know that I am doing this on purpose. Shall we keep playing?

@IamNobody i DO know you're doing this on purpose. that is why i am about to block you, because no, i don't want to play. goodbye. (for the benefit of everyone else who may be reading this, who may have been wondering, for no particular reason, what it takes to get me to block you, stupid head games will do it.)

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@IamNobody I could not agree more.

it is now!

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i don't think it fits into the two categories for reporting. i mean it could, if i let it go on, but my blocking the second party stopped it, so all is well.

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the only thing i know for sure is that if you DO see the posts (and i do see some of them) there is no reply feature. this has to be a change because i know at one time someone would reply to a post by someone i'd blocked and i couldn't even see the reply, even though i hadn't blocked the respondant. now suddenly i can see all the posts but not respond, which is very weird. so i don't know if i can answer your question, but i know they knew, because they had the workaround response.

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@genessa Riiiiight. Thanks for input. I know I have blocked several people that I don’t wish to waste my time with and I am sure that there are some who have blocked me but half the joy is letting someone know that they were blocked! ?

@patchoullijulie yeah that's the trick -- do you wait until you think they've seen your goodbye or block asap? and i think my having seen the ones i mentioned that have no reply button was a fluke, for i just blocked someone above and his post (and our responses) are gone. weird.

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well, imagine this. you say "i like wine" and someone answers you with "yeah i know you're a whiner" you say "oh okay, very funny, but actually i like a good chardonnay" and the other person says "yes, you're right, i'm a good lay." you say "that's not very clever" and the other person says "you're right, i'm so clever." and you say, "well, good luck to you then" and the other person says "fuck you too." after a while wouldn't you get a little tired of that person? and if you just stop answering then the person keeps going on anyway, and gets abusive? that's a made-up example; i was trying to think of some word-twisting. it's even a silly example. it's one in the morning; it's the best i can do at the moment. but there is nothing wrong with blocking someone who does that, especially if they follow you around from post to post and do it, as if they're stalking you (that has happened to me on facebook).

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With all due respect, your not a female? That in itself will attract all kinds of blocking opportunities.?

it crossed my mind, but there are only two categories for which one can report and i didn't think that it rose to the level of harassment (admittedly i nipped it in the bud before it could) and it wasn't a threat of physical harm either. so i just blocked it and shared the story for the amusement of y'all... or as i have said elsewhere, not quite all of y'all lol.

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i've only ever seen it happen once, on facebook, also to me.... totally different topic. that one was political, and i was being gaslit (there was a bit of gaslighting here too -- dontcha love when people tell you what you said even though you didn't say it?) i block anyone who gaslights no matter WHAT the topic.

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seriously!

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me too! this wasn't even political, but yeah, they should put a special section in the block list for regressives!

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thanks, but in this case i didn't think it was even all that controversial! someone had posted about lilith as if trading one biblical character for another was somehow useful, and i expressed my doubts. that person went on and on about how offended i was and how i had.. i forget the word but basically ATTACKED her post (by disagreeing with it, yep, that's an attack all right).

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@genessa Oh, my! Some people lack perspective, I guess; or just don’t get out enough!

@The-Krzyz well, i myself don't get out enough lol but i think i have some level of perspective! these folks might get out more than i do (or not -- who knows?) but perspective? i didn't see any, and i looked lol

the funny thing (well ONE of the funny things) is that lilith is not of zero interest to me; i like mythology. but she was being presented in such a way as to make me think that even metaphorically she was just a substitute for eve to the poster, and yeah, there are theists who don't take the bible literally (not that she's even IN there, not the bible i've seen!) but they're still theists. i don't think this poster is a theist. i think she's... let's be polite and say confused? oh hell, also hysterical lol

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@genessa From what I’ve seen (read), your perspective seems pretty sound to me! I also am a student of mythology, and always found Lilith rather interesting, though not hysterically so. Hopefully, you’ve ditched your problematic poster!

@The-Krzyz the sad thing is, she didn't have to be blocked (i say sad because she obviously couldn't accept being blocked!) she didn't have to love being disagreed with. i get disagreed with all the time. so what? i wasn't blocking her because we disagreed about lilith. we probably agreed more than disagreed about lilith, the character, in the long run, but she kept doing this gaslighting thing, sarcastically putting words in my mouth, so i blocked her. okay, i wouldn't be posting about that either -- i block lots of folks and i don't announce it every time! it was her weird go-between workaround that impelled me to post here that's... different, yeah? anyway thanks for your confidence in my perspective )

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