Tumblr Culture continues to puzzle

[dragoness_e]

I have trouble wrapping my head around the point of "blocking" someone on Tumblr. So far, it's gone like this:

Someone: says something deeply stupid, and insists that anyone who doesn't agree with Deeply Stupid Thing is an evil, hateful apologist for BadThing.

Me: Your position on Thing is not tenable, because Reasons Given. Also, I don't take marching orders from random strangers on the internet--I decide for myself.

Them: [blocks me on Tumblr]

Result: I see a truncated first line of their reply on the message they blocked over the Tumblr activity log, which is incomprehensible because it is truncated. Clicking through to the message, I find their log empty, because I am blocked.

Okay, I now cannot see any more Deeply Stupid stuff they may say. I think I "won", though I'm not sure what the point of it was.

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

Ah, but they never see anything more from you, either. Or at least that's how I understand it.

[dragoness_e]

That is also true, but they weren't following me, so they wouldn't be looking at my original posts (what posts?) in any case, and I still see their stuff when someone else re-blogs it. I don't know how it works the other way around--if someone re-blogs my comments in a re-blog chain, do they just not see that note, or what? As far as I can tell, it mostly means I don't see their direct posts. Which didn't excite me in the first place.

[ilyena_sylph]

I... assume yes, that is true, that they don't see you.

I don't see the assholes and misogynistic twerps I block, at least.

Blocking is meant to let me, the user, avoid people I don't like/disagree with/want to punch in the face. What it does on the side of those I've said 'begone!' to, I don't really know.