Comment by DoItToMe81
2 years ago
Mental illness or not, your interactions with users in a service with a block button are all voluntary. Unless someone is going out of their own way to drag drama out of Discord, or god forbid, into real life, it tends to be best to just let it happen, as they are entirely willingly participating in it and the escape is just a button away.
Community defined by the most aggressive people that come in tend to be the one where everyone else voluntarily leaves, cause leaving is much better for them.
I see this a fair amount, and yeah, "just let people block others" is really terrible moderation advice.
Besides the very reasonable expectation almost everyone has that assholes will be banned, the inevitable result of not banning assholes is that you get more and more assholes, because their behavior will chase away regular users. Even some regular users may start acting more like assholes, because what do you do when someone is super combative, aside from possibly leaving? You become combative right back, to fight back.