I’ve found I don’t have to block posters, because I can “skim and read selectively” if I’m in a low signal-to-noise thread.
I’ll see a problem poster and skim over what they’ve written, only dipping in if they contribute something. If it’s their usual stupid/racist/chicken little/self-aggrandizing schtick, I can come out unscathed.
That also works if I don’t recognize someone, but it’s a discussion where someone’s beating one drum over and over; or two posters have taken it off the rails (“Nuh-uhh!” “No, YOU!”).
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Actually, in that Kamala’24 thread, it was songsoflovetrouble that I stopped reading, after they started tossing around unsubstantiated “facts”, like Harris was hooked on “benzos”: