Comment by ekidd

> That said, along the way we settled on a notion of the "user's personal jurisdiction," meaning essentially that you have certain rights to universally control your own interactions. Blocking is essentially under this umbrella, as are thread gates (who can reply).

As as user, "personal jurisdiction" is a critical feature to me. If I start a thread, I want to maintain some minimal level of agreeable behavior in the responses associated with my original post.

It's sort of like online newspaper comments sections. Many unmoderated comment sections were once full of 20 disagreeable trolls who drove everyone else away. The bad drives out the good, and trolls accumulate over time. This doesn't even need to be ideological—I knew a semi-famous tech personality that had a handful of personal stalkers who infested every open comment section. Many newspapers fixed this by disabling comments or actually hiring moderators.

I won't post to a service if the average reader of my posts will see a pile of nasty, unpleasant comments immediately following each of my posts.

This is why I mostly prefer blogs, and moderated community forums. Smaller, well-moderated subreddits are great, as are private Discords.