Block-Swiping.
Block Swiping is when someone knowingly antagonizes you or wants their ‘final word’ in before blocking you. This is just an elevated flame bait tactic to instigate someone into chasing that user up until they get banned. I find that this kind of behavior is counter-productive to having decent engagements online in general. You should be banned for this because all that this does is just fuel more drama.
Edit: To the few of you who’re taking pot shots at me like the immature cunts you are - go back to Reddit for that.
Well, if you don’t ban or otherwise moderate unpleasant people, your community will rot until it’s nothing but unpleasant people and those who can tolerate them. So that’s not a desirable outcome.
Communities should have rules. People who repeatedly break those rules should be banned. This is true online and offline.
The more challenging question is “what are the best rules to make?”
Most places will disallow porn and gore, or require them to be appropriately labeled or quarantined. That makes sense to me.
Many places will ban anything too violent. Threats against individuals I understand. Saying you can’t even imagine violence against organizations doing violence (eg: ice, the Republican party) is lending support to horrible people, so I’m not keen on that. I can see wanting to keep it from turning into revenge porn, or wanting to avoid drawing the attention of the state.
“No personal attacks on members” was a rule on a place I used to post. Was pretty nice, usually.